Double Glazing On The Web

Make ‘saving money’ your New Years Resolution with these top tips on slashing your energy bills!

Don’t waste energy….keep the heat in; preserve your heat with double glazed windows and cavity wall insulation where possible.  Thick or heavy curtains and draft excluders also make a huge difference and can reduce heat lost through windows and doors.  According to Energywatch, by turning your thermostat down by just one degree centigrade could cut your heating bills by 10 per cent.  Finally, simple things such as energy saving light bulbs, not using standby on your electrical items and turning off lights when you leave the room can also make a difference.

Look Online…..if you’re considering switching your supplier, new cheap utility deals are constantly being launched online and most of the cheapest tariffs on the market can only be taken advantage of by internet customers.  Many new deals even offer cash-back.

Monitor your meter…..if you receive an estimated bill from your supplier; make sure you aren’t paying too much or too little!  Where possible, give a meter reading to your supplier.  This will avoid a large bill landing on the doormat or a large increase on your direct debit.

If your home isn’t already double glazed, be sure to look out for credit-crunching energy saving deals on windows and doors in the New Year!

Building A Greener Britain – Transforming Britain’s Housing Stock  is the title of a paper prepared by the Federation of Master Builders.  It was published in July by Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the report labels UK housing among the worst in Europe when it comes to energy efficiency.  Compared to other countries, we do seem to be a bit lacklustre when it comes to ‘green’ issues.  However, the report suggests a tactic which is sure to get us going pale green, if not emerald green.  It calls for a cut in VAT on housing refurbishment from 17.5 per cent to five per cent, council tax rebates to promote energy efficiency, and a review of energy performance certificates to improve accuracy and reliability.  Anything that saves money in this, frankly, dreadful financial climate has got to be good.

It is becoming more and more apparent that, in the not too distant future, the value of your property will become evermore dependent on how ‘green’ or energy saving it is.  In fact, as the much talked about Home Improvement Packs (HIPs) already contain Energy Performance Certificates, the energy performance of your home already contributes to its marketability.

On one carbon calculator site on the web, installing effective double glazing comes very high in the steps you can take to improve the energy efficiency of your home (and, therefore, its marketability).  The only actions that come higher than double glazing involve turning down your central heating thermostat.

So, whether or not you are a committed green campaigner just by ensuring that your doors and windows keep in the warm and keep out the cold, you will be contributing to the green agenda.

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.