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A Boring post about double glazing

Did you know that there is a book on the market containing the most boring postcards ever produced? I believe this covers petrol stations, eating houses on the M25, and others of that ilk.  They are, in fact, very interesting purely from the point of view that the reader wonders just who did find these interesting in the first place and why were they printed.  I mean, if you stop off at a Little Chef on the M1 to grab junk food to keep you going, why would you want to send a postcard to commemorate the occasion?

This preamble is merely to warn you that this post is going to be about Double Glazing and is equally BORING and to be fair to all my readers the post is so named. Therefore, if you are still reading at this stage, on your own head be it.

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Obviously at the moment I am really interested in double glazing as I have just had my windows done. The Man who Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, flushed with pride at his achievement (bet he was seriously pissed off that Cheryl Cole, Stick Insect No.2, Victoria Beckham being No.1 of course, also managed to do this) came and made sure my windows were done and all was well. I have now had them in for a week and I am totally enchanted by them.  Never did I think I would reach a stage in my life when I would stroke a window, open and shut the new locks and beam proudly.  No more mopping up operations every day as the pools of condensation gather, I feel warmer and what is best of all, safer, particularly at night.  There is also a lock so that I can open the windows overnight which I have not been able to do up to now as I live in a ground floor flat.

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So I am putting some pictures into this post so you can all look, wonder and marvel.  I have now decided that 2009 is going to be the year of Getting the Flat Done as it is likely that I will be stopping work pretty soon.  Not necessarily because I want to, but because it is getting increasingly difficult to obtain a job in the current economic climate and the time might have come when I just have to live on my pension, minuscule though it is, and make do.  I have therefore come to the conclusion that I will use some of my savings which, let's face it are earning nil interest at the moment (thank you Gordon dear) and invest in the flat instead, so I have a lady coming round tomorrow to look at my kitchen and we shall see.

Do hope you enjoy looking at these wonderful PVC windows and that it makes your day (and if you click on them they come up even bigger…)

Au reservoir.

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15 responses to “A Boring post about double glazing”

  1. Trevor Back (the nice window man) Avatar
    Trevor Back (the nice window man)

    Actually I climbed Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro back to back! Now thats something those trumped up “celebs”, and I use the word loosely, couldn’t do. Watched the programme on BBC last night and spent the whole hour shouting at the tv and explaining to my wife, son and any other living organism that would listen (cat etc.) how my trip was nothing like that and what hardship was endured by their beloved. Thanks for the nice comments on my windows though, pictures look fantastic. Might have to employ you as official company photographer! All the best and I really like your site.

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  2. anne Avatar
    anne

    I thought it was a lovely post, and the windows are indeed beautiful. I find I have window envy.
    anne

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  3. Elaine Simpson-Long Avatar
    Elaine Simpson-Long

    Well goodness me, all these comments on a Boring Post about Double Glazing! I am having my kitchen done soon so will have to write boring posts about tiling and my new sink in due course I see..
    Thank you for all the nice comments about my flat. I am very fond of it. I bought it ten years ago now when my marriage broke up and have lived very happily on my own in its walls ever since. It is lovely to be able to paint a wall bright pink if I feel so inclined and to stick picutres where I want etc etc. My bathroom was a gold colour for four years and I only recently painted it that lovely Cornflower blue which is in the picture. It is just a boring flat really built in 1985, no architectural merit at all, but it is my home and I love it. Now that the windows are done I am embarking on the kitchen and then in the summer plan to do a lot of decorating so busy busy.
    RAD – Glad you were listening to appropriate music when looking at the windows!!
    Roger Sutton – I did not know that a lot of you wanted my life!! I take that as a compliment as I am obviously making it sound wonderful. And I suppose it is not bad really….
    Thanks again to all for your comments

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  4. Roger Sutton Avatar
    Roger Sutton

    You do know, I hope, that a lot of us have long wanted your life. And now we want your flat!

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  5. Juxtabook Avatar
    Juxtabook

    With the view from the window of the garden, and the lovely blue and white in what I assume is your bathrom, the two pictures give the impression that you live in a very pretty flat.

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  6. Susan D Avatar
    Susan D

    The daffodils are lovely. It seems every Brit Book Blog I frequent lately has been overflowing with daffodils and snowdrops and crocuses (see also Jane Brocket for March 8). Beautiful and springlike and uplifting. I’ll try not to be jealous. Meanwhile, my own daffs bloom in pots, so I’ll just share this for those of us still in the clutches of winter.
    http://dalyght.ca/stdavidsday.jpg

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  7. R.A.D. Stainforth Avatar
    R.A.D. Stainforth

    By a strange coincidence, I am listening to Akhnaten by Philip Glass.

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  8. Lisa Borgnes Giramonti Avatar
    Lisa Borgnes Giramonti

    This is off-topic, but I just read your post on the “Lucia” books and loved it! Oh, I love those two women so! You described them perfectly and now I think I will spend today looking through them again… Thank you for pointing your lovely blog out to me! xx

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  9. Margaret Powling Avatar
    Margaret Powling

    Those windows look very smart, especially with the deep sills! A lovely place on which to place flowers, etc. I change my sill oranments in the kitchen with the season … in winter I put out copper lustre and in summer silver, white pottery and clear glass. There is nothing boring about that post whatsoever.
    As to the Boring Postcards book, I recall seeing a very old one, years ago, when I helped out in my friends’ antiquarian/2nd hand bookshop. It had pix of, of all things, car parks and static caravan parks. I don’t meant that caravans have static electricity build up, but static as opposed to touring caravans!

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  10. Darlene Avatar
    Darlene

    I’m want to add another comment about your lovely sills. They don’t seem to add them to homes where I live and they look so pretty with a plant on them.

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  11. Ruth Avatar
    Ruth

    We have two more windows to do in our house. What is stopping us? Well in the so-called-dining-room the problem is that I have my loom and associated “stuff”. I will have to have a major tidy and probably a mini chuck-out just so that “the men” can get to the window. currently anyone attempting such a task would at least need a machete and a couple of bearers. The bathroom poses a different problem. Do we get someone to remove the original 1938 tiles that are securely affixed with a thick layer of sand & cement, do the window and then have new tiles, or do we just have the window done and risk that when we, or someone else, decides that the bone and black tiles really have to go, we damage the new windows? Yes procrastination is the easiest course we can just go another 10-15years before we actually make a decision.
    Enjoy your windows!

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  12. ohsovintage Avatar
    ohsovintage

    No, my eyes didn’t glaze over with boredom whilst reading this but I fear clicking and enlarging the photos may all be a little too much for me!

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  13. Jan Jones Avatar
    Jan Jones

    What a lovely deep sill you have. And what really, really NEAT sills you have. (Please tell me this was a direct result of tidying up for Killimanjaro Man)
    And the windows do look loverly.

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  14. Elaine Simpson-Long Avatar
    Elaine Simpson-Long

    I once spent a happy half hour in Waterstones looking at this book and the assistant there told me it was selling very well! Perhaps I ought to write a book about double glazing…

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  15. Gert Avatar
    Gert

    I have the Boring Postcards book. It is rather splendid and not necessarily in a mickey take way. It’s a glimpse of post-War social/architectural history. I particularly love the picture of (v. early 70s) Sale Leisure Centre where I learnt to swim!

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