Wednesday October 26, 2011 at 1:52pm
Quite a few of our Prior DIY conservatories are South facing and as a result of the heat build up in summer, we regularly supply them with roof vents. These are ideal for letting the heat out from the top of the conservatory and thus generating a gentle breeze from the French doors and other opening windows.
These vents come in various flavours from manually operated by means of a brass or anodized pole connecting to a worm gear to electrically operated ones. The manually operated ones are the ....
Tuesday October 25, 2011 at 2:04pm
In reality, there is no 'best' design for a new conservatory. It entirely depends on what you want, what type of house you have and what space you have available. For the maximum amount of useable space there are three main designs, the leant - to, Edwardian and gable fronted. With straight walls these designs enable you to best furnish the conservatory whilst retaining the maximum living space as well. Also with the gable fronted and Edwardian styles, the extra height inside makes for a light a....
Wednesday October 19, 2011 at 2:34pm
Thats right folks, just a couple of months away from the annual visit from the inlaws, their friends and other family members that you thought you had forgotten about. What a lovely prospect, all shut up in your average sized house with no means of escape for a week or more. It's enough to make your blood run cold!
However at Prior Conservatories as usual, we have the answer and it is not too late to take our advice and make it happen. You know secretly that what you need is much more spac....
Monday October 17, 2011 at 9:42am
Although on this website we are obviously best known and focus upon our DIY conservatories, this is by no means the whole picture. We manufacture a complete range of modular and bespoke Lean to, Edwardian, Victorian, Gable fronted and P and T shaped DIY conservatories an these are available in a range of colours as well. We have also introduced our superb range of BFRC energy rated windows in all of our self builds.
These offer a significant advantage over standard PVCu double glazed windows us....
Friday October 14, 2011 at 12:26pm
We nearly had heart failure earlier today. A customer had had all of the plans for her new Prior DIY conservatory and that included comprehensive plans of the base. All of this had been signed off and we had manufactured the conservatory and roof and all was ready for eventual despatch when we had a call from the customer to say that the base, eg, dwarf wall was 160mm out on one end!
She asked us what we could do or suggest. Well the obvious thing would be to knock it all down and start afresh.....
Thursday October 13, 2011 at 4:49pm
When you are in the process of ordering one of our Prior DIY conservatories, we will at all stages provide you with up to date CAD images and base plans. This way we can adjust anything that needs it and you have a record of how far we have come with the design. It is all done by email for speed and ease and this way we can rapidly refine the conservatory until it is as you want it. We then send the final CAD images over to you to sign off and hey ho, away we go!....
Wednesday October 12, 2011 at 4:37pm
As the autumn advances slowly towards winter there is still plenty of time to get that concrete base laid or those footings dug out. In fact, after the dry summer, a little more wet weather would make the whole process easier as the ground is less likely to feel lick the concrete you are trying to put down!
As the base work is the most time consuming part of the whole build and must not be rushed for fear of making a mistake with the level or dwarf wall, we allow plenty of time for you to do th....
Tuesday October 11, 2011 at 11:08am
Not every DIY conservatory that we do is straight forward. There are sometimes things that get in the way of the conservatory site such as drain pipes or soil pipes. Normally with a little skill these can be moved or relocated so that they will not foul the conservatory.
However, there are other ossacles that can be more of a challenge. These would include central heating boiler flues which although placed at a reasonable height, would cost the earth to have moved. Another favourite is the good....
Monday October 10, 2011 at 1:54pm
One of the things that we like here at Prior Conservatories are the letters that we get from our customers. It should be remembered that virtually all of them have never had to put up a DIY conservatory before and the results are very often stunning!
" Martin, please find attached a photo of the conservatory we bought a few months ago. We are both absolutely delighted with the complete service you provided and the quality of the conservatory - we could not have been happier."
I have ....
Friday October 7, 2011 at 4:36pm
It is a well known fact that our customers go hyperactive at the weekends, digging holes for footings and generally mixing and pouring large amounts of concrete to get their bases ready. We here on the other hand have also been busy welding up the frames for their DIY conservatories and making certain that everything will go together as planned. At the same time we have been designing and fine tuning quotes for potential customers who are about to order.
We always allow three weeks from order t....
Wednesday October 5, 2011 at 2:57pm
We are not quite sure what has happened in the past few weeks but when it comes to our DIY conservatories, we have been rushed off our feet. Maybe it was the spell of nice weather or the fact that there is still time to erect a Prior DIY conservatory but we have been amazed.
The telephones have not stopped ringing and the demand for Edwardian and Victorian self builds has been great. These have been the bulk of our sales in the last month with the ever popular Lean-To coming a very close secon....