I received a call from a homeowner asking for someone to come estimate some repairs. When I asked sort of repairs, he said it would be too many to enumerate, but much easier if I just came out to house and looked. I went.

It began like this............ Old Joe wanted to change his toilet seat, but couldn't get old one off. So he tried wrenches until he rounded off nuts (he was turning them wrong way because they were upside down) and then decided to get his trusty cold chisel and hammer out. Well, he tapped a bit on it with no success, so he drew back hammer to smite a mighty blow against stubborn bolt. In so doing he broke toilet tank and flooded area with cold water. This cold water gave him a shock and he drew back in a hurry dropping hammer into bathtub causing a big chunk of porcelain to pop off tub floor.

Regrouping his thoughts, he ran down to basement two floors below to shut off water to house, house had no other valves installed when it was built in 1890's. Meanwhile water was flooding through floors and had saturated plaster of ceiling below to point it collapsed into living room.

A beautiful room deserves beautiful windows. You’ve put a lot of thought and effort into making your conservatory a showpiece, with windows that bring in beauties of sky and gardens. Sometimes, though, sun and heat are just a little too strong, or you’d like a little privacy. Conservatory blinds are answer – but not just any blinds to block out heat and sun. With wide variety of conservatory blinds to choose from, your choice can enhance qualities in your room that are most important to you.

When choosing conservatory blinds, you need to give thought to two very different kinds of construction – windows of your roof, and conservatory wall windows. Because every conservatory style is different, you can’t simply walk into a shop and bring home an armload of window blinds. Your conservatory blinds will need to be custom fitted and created to fit your windows and suit style of your room. A company that specializes in conservatory window treatments can show you all different options for providing privacy and light control in your haven of serenity without destroying ambience that you’ve worked so hard to create.

Experience shows that main reasons that people choose to add conservatory blinds to their rooms are

- To reduce glare and heat

The industry term for a south-facing conservatory is ‘oven’ – because that’s what it feels like mid-afternoon on a hot summer day. Conservatory blinds or window coatings can help reduce heat build-up and glare that can make even most beautifully designed room uncomfortable.

- To provide privacy

Those lovely expanses of glass that allow you to see out also allow others to see in. Conservatory blinds provide privacy when you want it.