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Customer Stories 13 Sep 2012

Why Season Change = Priority Change in the Bifold Door Market

Prioritizing is important in all aspects of life, but when making a change to your home, or a purchase such as bifold doors, it’s pretty important to have some idea of what you are looking for and why. And, of course, priorities change. This post comments on the effect of the change of seasons in … Continued

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Products 6 Sep 2012

Why Condensation on Windows Isn’t Always a Bad Thing

External condensation – doesn’t sound like a good thing does it? It’s easy to see how this could be misconstrued as something negative, or even a sign of failure of a window. This blog post is inspired (again) by a recent point made by DGB and aims to get rid of this myth surrounding double … Continued

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Industry News 30 Aug 2012

The Importance of Being A Specialist

This week’s blog post will be short, sweet and informative. It’s main purpose is to emphasize the importance of choosing the right installers for your doors (I touched on this topic last week). But I’d also like to talk briefly about the industry in general and how ‘specialist’ companies seem (to me at least) to … Continued

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Products 23 Aug 2012

Essential Do’s and Don’ts When Purchasing Bifold Doors

When taking the leap and getting any kind of home improvement work done, you really want to be sure you are doing things safely, properly, in the most efficient, cost-effective and stress-free way possible. You want your installer/builder/architect/contractors to not only know what they’re talking about when it comes to their trade, but know what … Continued

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Customer Stories 17 Aug 2012

How We Keep Our Customer Reputation Glowing

Time to apologise to the blogosphere. Having been out of the office (shock horror) for over a week, I have somewhat neglected this little corner of the bifold blogging world. Time to remedy that! This week’s post covers a mixture (but an organised mixture) of topics – focusing on a thread I found interesting over … Continued

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Customer Stories 31 Jul 2012

Don’t Adapt To Suit Your Home: Adapt Your Home To Suit You!

I couldn’t help but share a sneak peak of these photos on twitter before writing this blog post, as the property featured is so stunning. But that wasn’t my reason for blogging about it. Instead of moving into a new-built modern home, this customer has used their current property as a base and adapted and … Continued

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Industry News 25 Jul 2012

How To Heat Your Home Without Central Heating

This week’s blog post (along with a vast majority of home improvement blogs I assume!) was inspired by none other than the popular property development TV program – Grand Designs. Reason being, I was drawn to some of the innovative products they were using for the build – and being a bifold door blogger (and … Continued

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Company News 18 Jul 2012

Take A Break

I thought I’d take a break from “serious” blogging this week, to introduce you to our frequent office visitor – Thomas, Bristol Bifold’s very own resident kitten. You will find him either sleeping in Claire’s lap, batting rolled up post it notes across my desk, or patrolling the showroom. He is about 6 weeks old … Continued

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Industry News 11 Jul 2012

Sales: An Honest Opinion

As a blogger for the bifold door/double glazing/window industry, I do try and read as many other blogs concerning the same issues. Not just for ideas! But so that I can voice my own (and Bristol Bifold’s) opinions on current and important issues in the industry and create a dialogue between the blogs. For example, … Continued

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Products 4 Jul 2012

July Bifold Q&A Session

Now that I’ve pretty much covered all that is Bristol Bifold in my last post, I thought I’d move on to answering the more specific questions about bifold doors themselves, and all of the decisions that need to be made before they are bought…and believe me…there are a lot of variables! What I’m saying is … Continued

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