Double Glazed Windows Help Sell Your Home

If you have decided to put your home on the market to try and sell it, there are a few pointers that you need to remember before doing this. Your home is a reflection of you and the household and there is always the trap of making the home too personal.

There are certain areas that prospective buyers will be looking for. You'll know the obvious ones because you will undoubtly be looking at similar points yourself when considering your next home move.

1. Make sure you have sorted out those double glazed windows. Most home-buyers now look for all windows to be at least double glazed. So even if you have a fantastic home, perfect driveway and on the best school routes, potential buyers will be put off, or ask for a reduction on the market price because they will have to go to the expense and time of replacing windows with upvc windows.

2. Loft insulation - Ensure your home is well insulated to the required standard. All too often heat is lost through the windows if they are not double glazed windows aswell as through the loft due to a lack of insulation keeping heat in. This is something you can do yourself, but make sure you get the correct thickness of insulation and make sure there are no electrical lights or potential heating hazards to catch fire in the loft.

3. The obvious one here, but keep the house tidy and clutter free. The problem with living in the home you are selling is that you can see over the mess or left over dishes in the sink, but a potential buyer will want to see all the space as a blank canvas.

There are plenty more ideas for ensuring you can sell your home, or at least make your home is at its best possible condition for potential buyers.

Look Local - Coventry Double Glazing

If you are considering home improvements such as loft conversions or fitting new upvc windows then there's always the best option of staying local. Anything to do with your home affects your way of live and living conditions in your home while the work is being done. There's nothing worse, we think, than coming home from a days work to find your home a building site and left.

We all know that when fitting double glazed windows you need to be quick with removing the old window and installing the new ones almost straight away. Houses without windows are not only a securing problem,but will make for a cold chilly evening.

Looking local can often deliver a friendly service and the tradesperson will probably have a reputation by word of mouth. You'll be able to get your double glazing installed, knowing you've employed a Coventry double glazing company. The reputation of a local business can win or lose customers, so the company will want to make sure they do a grand job. The other benefit being, you'll more than likely know the office or business premises and be able to certify for yourself that the business is real and exists and they are not likely to mess you around.

So there are so many benefits to going local when you need any home improvements.

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Look Through the Coventry Windows This Halloween

With Halloween just around the corner we thought we'd look into all things spooky and ghostly. Surprisingly, Coventry is host to many a ghostly sighting and haunting from HGV lorries disappearing past you to old planes of World War and phantom laughing in a public house basement. That's one pub we would be quick to leave after lights out at closing time.

Why not take a stroll through the streets of Coventry and look through some of the Coventry windows and you may be in for a surprise if you visit St Marys Guildhall in Coventry. A resident Monk ghost that likes to appear in the photos may just make an appearance for you.

There are several ghost hunts and ghost walks organised throughout the year, but Halloween tends to be the most frightening time of the year. There are walks that will leave you wanting to hide or run away. If you take a walk through Whitmore Park beware of a black beast that might appear.

If the thought of being scared out of your skin, whilst in the middle of a park, in the middle of the night on the most spooky night of the year does not appeal to you, you can always stay in and hide in the warmth of your home and enjoy the Witching Hour behind your double glazed windows.

Improve your Double Glazing with Window Film

During the summer months, PVCU windows or any other type of window allows sunlight into the house which may mean you get hot and therefore you turn on your air conditioning system. The opposite of this is during winter when the heat within your house escapes through your windows which means you will turn the heating on to keep the whole house warm. Double glazed windows are great to reduce this heat leaving your house but to further help you can apply window film to your windows.

Since the most of the heat that comes into your home is from the sun and this can cause damage to your furniture. You can block this out with normal curtains or blinds but this can block the light coming into your house. A different way is to apply tinted window film to your double glazing. This will reduce the light and heat entering a room without completely blocking them out. This means that you will have a better environment in your house so won’t have to turn on lights, air conditioners and heating and will therefore save money.

Other benefits of applying window films to your PVCU windows are that they can offer privacy to your windows which is good if you live in an area where a lot of people walk past. Also, you can purchase patterned film to apply to your double glazing which will add to the decor of your room. There are a wide range of patterns and styles available so that you will be able to find ones to match the decor of the double glazing windows in each room of your house.

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The Story of Lady Godiva

Since its Friday we thought we’d have a little fun with our blog post today and retell a famous legend about the city of Coventry.

Since we are a Coventry double glazing company, we enjoy the history of the city we’ve been based in since 1996. Coventry was quite a famous city during the Second World War bombings and was the only British City to lose a Cathedral. Another famous story from the history of Coventry is that of Lady Godiva.

Be Energy Efficient to Save Some £££'s

There are many methods and things you can do to help save money because no one likes to feel like they’re wasting money. There are big and small things that you can do around your home to try and reduce your living costs which should leave you with more money to spend on enjoying yourself. The types of things you can do include getting double glazing installed  which is a bigger upfront  payment that will pay for itself over time in the long run and  everyday things such as making use appliances such as washing machines are full when you use them.

Coventry UPVC Windows Manufacturer

If you are in Coventry or Warwickshire and in need of UPVC windows then you can’t go wrong with upvcdoubleglazing.biz as they are probably the biggest manufacturer of double glazed windows in Coventry. With a history of over fifteen years in the city, upvcdoubleglazing.biz have a long history with Coventry and have had a couple of different manufacturing factories in different locations around the city before they settled on their current location at the Godiva Trading estate.

Tips for Measuring for UPVC Windows

If you’ve ever had a visit from a double glazing salesman then you may have had them taking measurements of your windows from the inside of the house in the warm whilst the wind is howling outside. This is not good, as from the inside is the wrong way to measure for new windows. The salesman is more worried about staying warm than getting the correct sizes for new double glazed windows.