Renegade Conservatory Guy

When I finished work on Friday a few people wished me a good holiday…but it’s not a holiday, honestly!
I am having a couple of weeks off double glazing, but I’ll not be relaxing.
I’m flying to India tomorrow with three other trustees of Heal, a UK-registered charity dedicated to providing health and education for orphaned and […]

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Conservation Officers at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have recently been scratching their heads about an unusual development among the native woodpecker population in the North of England.
It appears that an increasing number of great spotted woodpeckers are being found with bent or damaged bills.

At first the RSPB investigated the possibility […]

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According to the latest news:
Homeowners sitting out the credit crisis rather than taking their chances with a “For Sale” board are turning to home improvements.
Research from personal loan specialist, GE Money, has revealed that property owners across the UK are improving and extending their dwellings as an alternative to entering a stagnating property market where […]

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Conservatory Outlet is a long standing customer of GAP, a home improvement and uPVC stockist based in Blackburn and with depots throughout the UK. GAP supply a wide range of products to support double glazing companies, such as uPVC roofline products, Rock Doors, door panels, silicones, screws, Bettaboards, laminate flooring, underfloor heating, power tools […]

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This post is a shameless plug about our company, and the sales seminar we recently held in Wakefield.
We’ve never asked all our Conservatory Outlet dealers, their sales guys and our favourite suppliers to one venue before, and ask them to listen to Andrew and I talk publicly about so many topics.

It was an opportunity for […]

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I’ve had a quick look around the internet to find the best conservatory and double glazing videos ever made, and here they are:
1. Calendar Boys
This video shows staff from West Yorkshire Windows in Wakefield going through their usual routine of installing quality conservatories, but in the nude…

2. Break In Challenge - Kung Fu
Demonstrating the strength […]

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I recently ran a story about Anglian Home Improvements appearing on the BBC’s Watchdog programme and since then there have been dozens of comments on the webpage. One of the contributors ‘Paul.com’ was keen to get his opinion across as an ex-Anglian salesman.
So, I asked Paul if he would be interested in doing an […]

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More shame for the double glazing industry, with an article in the Daily Mail by Jane barrie entitled Glazing Mad.
I’ve copied and pasted the full article below, and written my comments in bold:
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I HAVE come across some pushy salesmen in my time but the ordeal of Tom McLellan is one of the worst I’ve ever […]

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We’ve had an unusually high number of those letters from suppliers this year…the dreaded price increase letters!
So, I’m thinking of sending this to all my suppliers:
Dear [supplier],
As you may be aware from recent media reports the economy is facing increasingly hard times, with the credit crunch, high inflation, falling house prices, rising fuel costs and […]

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Just a quick post to let you know that Mick Giscombe, our Head of Production at Conservatory Outlet, has made real improvements to productivity over the last 18 months.
He’s particularly skilled at motivating the factory lads on the shopfloor, and recently he’s turned his attention to the office.
This short video shows Mick in action:

If you […]

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