Double Glazing On The Web

Okay, so the UK is not blessed with year round sunshine, but there are other reasons to add a conservatory to your house:

• You will be increasing your home’s ‘footprint’ by enlarging one of your downstairs rooms.
• You could, if you wanted to, treat the conservatory as a completely separate room.
• Adding a conservatory is cheaper than moving home, yet it gives you a bigger home and increases the value of your house.
• Natural sunlight is good for you, in fact, without it your body cannot make Vitamin D. This vitamin is essential for strong teeth and bones because, without it, your body cannot use the calcium in your food. So, in rainy old UK, when the children can’t always play out, you will be increasing the amount of sunlight and, therefore, vitamin D available to your children.
• Don’t you just love the sound of rain pattering on glass when you’re all cozy and safe inside your home? Well, you’ll get plenty of that!
• If you love entertaining, conservatories make amazing dining rooms. Sunny and bright during the daytime for lunch, glamorous or romantic in the evening, eating beneath the stars.

Given the current state of the housing market, there couldn’t be a better time to consider upgrading your home. Take the first step by looking at our wide range of conservatories now.

It has to be said - double glazing companies and their salesmen do not have a brilliant public profile. Media stories about cold-calling, email spamming, and salesman aggression has done little to help that poor image.

Last week, Supreme-O-Glaze, who also trade as Weatherseal Holdings, were ordered by the court to stop making cold calls. The complaints were received by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Telephone Preference Service, prompting the former to issue an enforcement notice against Weatherseal Holdings. This was in spite of the company assuring the ICO last year that it would discontinue the practice.

Apparently, the company persisted in making sales calls to homes that were using the Telephone Preference Service or who had requested not to receive these calls. The company were given 35 days to stop making such calls.

So why is a double glazing company highlighting such bad practice on its blog? Because this double glazing company doesn’t use salesmen, doesn’t pay commission, and doesn’t give discounts.

Did you know that, for most quotes received for double glazing, over 27% will go towards paying commission? Or that ’special offer’ prices are in fact the real list price and the normal price quoted to you is highly inflated?

Double Glazing on the Web does not work that way, and we get mightily upset when we are ‘tarred with the same brush.’

Visit our main site and see for yourself.

Never has the choice between moving to a new home or improving you new one been so relevant; well, not since the early 90’s anyway. Just when we thought the spectre of negative equity had been vanquished, once again it’s raised its head, gloomy as Christmas Past.

What’s this got to do with glazing and front doors you ask? More than you could ever imagine!

In the Spring of 2007 the average cost of moving was calculated as £9,486, a cost triple that of 2004. When these costs are allied to the depressed property market, its hardly surprising that more of us are choosing to improve rather than move. But there’s more to home improvement than just fitting a new front door, or updating your double glazing. Having said that, adding new windows will add an estimated £5,000 to the value of your property.

However, if you’re going to be flashing the ever-dwindling cash, it makes sense to spend it on the improvements that will add the most value - and we can do better than £5,000!

Adding a loft conversion will add an estimated 12.5% to your property’s value, that’s £27,500 on a £220,000 home! The next three most profitable schemes are shown below:

• An extension to create an extra room will add approximately 10.8%, or £23,700 on that average property
• A conservatory will add 6.7%, or £14,740
• A new kitchen will add 4.6% or £10,120

It has to be said that these values are based on national averages, so they may be slightly more or a tad less in your area; still, they are not figures to be sneezed at!

What all of these projects have in common is that they need glazing and doors. The double glazing industry is viewed rather negatively in the UK, hardly surprising given some of the scams that have been highlighted in various media; the hard sells and the over-inflated prices.

Double Glazing on the Web is different. Take a look, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.