Perfect fit frames - beware of cheap imitations

I had a customer come into our showroom today to order their perfect fit blinds. Some blackout nova snow blinds for a hot conservatory.

They had driven halfway round the M25 to look at our products and ensure they were suitable for their windows. We had already "talked" by email and on the phone a few times as the windows they had were slightly different from the normal types.

The reason for the long journey is that the customer had received frame samples from another company saying they did perfect fit blinds but the frame was different and wasn't compatible with the specification of the patented perfect fit blind system.

Now I have known for a while there was an alternative out there as other customers had told me but what it is like I have no idea. I haven't been able to see it as yet. You need to make sure you are ordering the patented perfect fit blind system that we use.

We have produced a range of videos and information pages including this blog to help customers select and choose the correct blinds. If you take the specification details that we have in our information pages and order a substandard system from elsewhere the blinds will not work. You will of course have paid a bit less but at what cost in terms of mis-measured ill-fitting blinds.

I have studiously not made this blog a big sales pitch for my companies http://www.perfect-fit-blinds.com/ and http://www.howardsblinds.co.uk/ up to now because a new product needs a lot of backup information in the first few years. But I want you to know that not all perfect fit blinds are perfect fit blinds. Another national blind company has taken the phrase "perfect fit blinds" to describe their complete range of window blinds thus further confusing the market.

So to summarise.

• We were there at the beginning of the product launch November 2005.
• We have personally fitted more perfect fit blinds in the UK than anyone else.
• We are one of very few 5 star accredited louvolite manufacturers
• We only sell the fully guaranteed original perfect fit blind system
• We receive leads internationally for these blinds and the perfect fit roof blind system.
• We have a real phone number 01344 452485 and showroom. Call us.

I hope you will permit this slightly biased entry just to clear up the point that not all perfect fit blinds are the authentic and patented system.

I will return to just product info and updates from tomorrow.