I called in to meet an old friend last week and I found her sitting in her new uPVC conservatory. I was impressed by the fact that Susan had invested in a new conservatory, as she usually does not have that much extra in the line of ready cash to spend on her home.
Susan told me over a cup of coffee that she had thought long and hard about building a conservatory and in the end it actually made financial sense for her to build one.
‘The main reason I purchased a uPVC conservatory is because my fuel bill were very high and I had an assessor in who told me that a good conservatory would help increase the thermal capacity of the entire home’. He was right’, she added, ‘because this conservatory is only up 2 months and already I find that my fuel bills are coming down’.
She told me that as well as saving money on heating costs, the new conservatory allowed her to redesign her home and gave her much needed additional floor space. ‘I use the conservatory as an office and a living room now and this gives me back one of the bedrooms upstairs’, she said.
I said that I was impressed that the conservatory looked as though it had always been there and she told me that as it was a uPVC conservatory, she had no difficulty matching the color of the uPVC frames to her existing windows. She also got some old brick in order to match the brickwork of the new conservatory to the brickwork in the existing house.
She had looked up a site called http://conservatories-for-all.com and she had downloaded a lot of information about building and decorating conservatories form that.
When I said goodbye and left I promised to call again soon and to enjoy a meal and a glass of wine in her new conservatory.
