Friday September 30, 2011 at 3:08pm
As almost all of our DIY conservatories are bespoke and some by no means 'bog standard', it is very important that we get the design and finished sizes right. We never want to be in the awkward situation where we have a call from a customer saying that the conservatory does not fit.
So the way we deal with this is to allow the customer and / or their builder plenty of time to check out all of the detailed CAD images and plansa that we email them. This way, the customer gets it right and we know....
Wednesday September 28, 2011 at 11:52am
All of our DIY conservatories are supplied with 'C' rated windows as standard. This is because we like to do things a little differently and offer our customers more than just a standard double glazed conservatory. The advantages are obvious - heating a self build conservatory is much easier if the side windows do not let all the heat out as fast as you pump it in. Also, the reverse happens in the hot weather as they are very good at keeping the heat out as well..
However, as some of our custom....
Thursday September 22, 2011 at 3:23pm
Ok, the nights are drawing in well now, but there is still plenty of daylight at this time of year for doing the building work for your new Prior DIY conservatory. After all, it takes us three weeks to manufacture the conservatory from date of order, which will give your brickwork and concrete plenty of time to go off.
If you are worried about how long it takes to erect one of our DIY conservatories, well most can be put up in a weekend with a couple of people working and a good supply of tea. ....
Wednesday September 21, 2011 at 4:38pm
This does not happen too often, but it did today! We were asked to supply a DIY Prior conservatory to a customer up North. Nothing particularly unusual in that so we designed it and got the go ahead from the customer. However, at the last moment the customer sounded a little awkward and asked us how he would seal the polycarbonate roof around a six inch soil pipe.
Normally this is one of the first things we are asked and the answer is simple. Firstly, can the pipe be redirected? In this case th....
Monday September 19, 2011 at 2:21pm
Thats right folks, it is coming up to that time of year again when all of the savings you made during the spring and summer regarding your heating bills is going to be wiped out again! However, if you have a Prior DIY conservatory, this will be much less of an issue as it is fitted with BFRC approved energy rated windows as standard. This means that the conservatory is going to be easier to heat than the rest of your house.
The simplest way of keeping the conservatory at a reasonable heat level....
Thursday September 15, 2011 at 3:53pm
Not long ago we designed a conservatory for a customer in Cheltenham. At first it appeared to be a very straightforward affair - a good size and a fresh modern layout. Then we came across a series of little issues that left unchecked would have resulted in a conservatory that could not be fitted and the customer would quite rightly have asked for their money back!
Because we have no intention of getting into this position with any of our DIY conservatories, we asked for more specific measuremen....
Tuesday September 13, 2011 at 8:57am
We must be doing something right as the interest in the Prior DIY conservatories has shot up just lately! Possibly because we are now getting a lot of recommendations from existing customers to their friends and undoubtedly because of the use of our energy rated PVCu double glazed windows.
Hardly any other company offer this upgrade as standard and even fewer even manufacture their conservatories in the first place. This has certainly given us the edge as we have our own factory in South Warwic....
Friday September 9, 2011 at 12:39pm
We have been using our energy rated windows now for some time with our Prior DIY conservatories. Why do we do this? Simple - we can as we manufacture the windows ourselves. However the main reason for fitting them as standard to our conservatories is that hardly anyone else does.
We feel that there is no point having a nice shiny DIY conservatory that is too cold in winter or too hot to use in the summer. There is no point as it becomes almost unuseable for half the year. However with energy ra....
Thursday September 8, 2011 at 4:22pm
When it comes to designing a conservatory we are excellent at doing it. We are not shackled by modular sizes as we manufacture our own frames and as a result can design the conservatory that our customers want.
If the design is going beyond the safe scope of a self build, we will advise you as well. We do not want to sell you something that you need a degree in engineering to put up! After all, a lot of the pleasure in owning your DIY conservatory is the fact that you put the thing togeth....
Tuesday September 6, 2011 at 2:17pm
There is a very good reason why we allow three weeks mininum from order to delivery of our DIY conservatories. As the concrete base will have to be created usually from scratch, you need to allow sufficient drying tome for the base before the conservatory is added.
As mentioned in the last post, condensation can be a real issue until the base has dried out completely. As a rough guide you should allow a minimum of three weeks in the summer and longer if fitting in the winter for the base to dry....
Monday September 5, 2011 at 12:00pm
At this time of year where day and night time temperatures differ quite a lot, and with the shortening of daylight hours there is a chance od developing condensation in your conservatory. If it has only been up a few weeks the floor will probably not yet have completely dried out. By leaving the fanlights on lightvent positions, there is sufficient background ventillation to clear the excess moisture away overnight.
Wide variations of heat in the conservatory caused by turning the heating on an....
Thursday September 1, 2011 at 2:36pm
There is no denying that it was distinctly cool this morning. Thoughts turn inevitably to winter - long dark freezing nights and short, not quite so freezing days. However it is not all doom and gloom. People seem to be gearing up for erecting DIY conservatories before the foul weather hits us.
Bear in mind that a Prior DIY conservatory is fitted with energy rated windows as standard, so the ability to use it all the year round is already built in. But as you probably know, we do not just....