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Has Triple Glazing Been A Success?

Triple glazing has been with us for quite a while now. It's introduction into the industry mainstream a few years ago was heralded as the next evolutionary step for our sector. But in it's few years of existence, it has failed to make the sort of impact many were expecting. When triple glazing was introduced [...]

By |2013-08-06T12:43:02+01:00August 7th, 2013|Categories: double glazing, triple glazing|

Red Hot Fire Check Range From UAP

This week has certainly seen some extremes in our weather. From the hottest day since 2006 to violent thunderstorms you only normally see in more tropical climates around the world. And it was these thunderstorms which saw many lightning strikes hit the UK homes, and in a lot of unfortunate cases, cause many fires. We [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:16+01:00July 29th, 2013|Categories: double glazing|

Economy On The Road To Recovery?

GOOD NEWS! Today it was announced that the economy grew by a barn storming 0.6% in the second quarter of this year! This follows on from a 0.3% rise in GDP in the first quarter of the year. So, total growth of 0.9% for the year so far. That's not bad going compared to the [...]

By |2013-07-25T22:35:19+01:00July 25th, 2013|Categories: double glazing, double glazing industry, economy, positive|

I Want To Get To Know You!

As you can see on the right hand side of the site, I have created a new little poll. But rather than asking you a question to help determine an industry related question, this task is designed to help me understand exactly who you all are out there! Hopefully I have given enough options to [...]

By |2013-07-23T13:26:29+01:00July 23rd, 2013|Categories: double glazing|

Progress…Then Progress S’more!

The last few years in this industry of ours has demonstrated very neatly the importance of moving forward. There are those that have had the energy and forethought to keep R&D busy and innovate and create new products to keep the market fresh and the new business coming in. Then there have been those that [...]

By |2013-07-04T15:19:44+01:00July 6th, 2013|Categories: double glazing, positive|

Lintels

Of all the rules and regulations that apply to our industry now, one of the most I hear very little about is also one of the rules most flouted in my opinion: the requirement for lintels. According to Approved Document A, these are the legal requirements for lintels: The necessity for lintels is dependent on [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:16+01:00July 4th, 2013|Categories: double glazing|

Twitter Should Be An Integral Part Of The Business

It has been fantastic to see so many of the glazing industry joining Twitter in recent months. Every day I seem to be able to follow new accounts I hadn't seen before. I'm hoping that this trend continues so that we can get the whole industry on board and create a really diverse, friendly and [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:16+01:00July 1st, 2013|Categories: double glazing, twitter|

1st Nail In The Green Deal Coffin

My good friend @PhilSirr again pointed me to another useful news article, again on the Green Deal. Except this time the article reports of the first bits of evidence that the scheme is going back on it's promises to those companies getting involved. Enact Energy, a Cornish firm that had been one of the first [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:17+01:00June 5th, 2013|Categories: double glazing|

Still Time To Take Over

Though the economy is showing signs of stabilising, and that we may after all not have been in a double-dip recession, there is still room in our industry for more takeovers and mergers. The time for acquisitions is about right actually. With profit margins being squeezed for most companies at all levels of our sector, [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:17+01:00May 18th, 2013|Categories: double glazing|

Quality Is King

The other day on Twitter I put out this tweet: Is there more profit and opportunity in becoming a 'high-end, specialist bespoke' installations company? It did start a couple of quite long and slightly confusing discussions about the importance of quality in our industry and the correct fitters to do it justice. I guess what I meant [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:19+01:00May 1st, 2013|Categories: double glazing, positive|

Consumer Searches Becoming More Specific

The graph above is a Google Trends generated graph for the search term "A rated windows". Looking at the graph, 2010 was a big year for WER's. And from then on, it has seen a nice steady rise. What this graph demonstrates is that potential customers are getting to know about our products a little [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:19+01:00April 29th, 2013|Categories: double glazing|

Don’t Get Done, Get Dom Littlewood To Condition Your Brain!

Last week I wrote about how it was the fault of the industry how we've allowed customer's to have far too much control over us, but I also mentioned that the media, more specifically TV has also had a part to play in this. Over the last few years, one of the worst offending programmes [...]

By |2016-10-24T20:24:26+01:00September 24th, 2012|Categories: double glazing, double glazing industry, sales tactics, Selling|
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