If you are considering
any of the following products, please read on.
Pleated shades
Cellular or
honeycomb shades
Horizontal
sheers with privacy vanes
Vertical sheers
with privacy vanes
Supposed romans
with "bonded polyester lining"
Inherant defects in these products
are as follows:
1. Once soiled or stained not
one of these products can be properly drycleaned. Every
thing needs cleaning sooner or later even if it's 3- 4
years later with normal soilage at that point " you
have just lost your investment"
2. You lose --- up to 35% from
the first day these products are installed in your
home!!!!! It is a fact that up to 35% of heat and energy
loss from your home is from the windows (thermo pane
included) there is "no value" to these products
compared to draperies or other properly designed fabric
products. *note : if you don't want your energy bills to
go up by about 1/3 consider using a more practical
product..................................
3. Service life ( the time it
takes for the product to last as long as expected by
commercial users) these products will only last 25% to
35% the life expectancy of draperies or other types of
blinds. Costing you 3 to 4 times the cost of a better
type of window covering that you could have had for less
to begin with!!!!!!!!!!
4. Fact: you can have lined
custom draperies and custom sheers for "less"
than the cost of such products as silhouette or luminette
by hunter douglas or similar products by graber, kirsch,
levelour, or others and you have "value" in
window coverings that last, insulate, are cleanable, and
"honestly" beautiful.
5. Design ----------------- look
closely at the pictures of these products ---------------
they are most often shown with valances and/or side
panels !!!! Just to hide the fact that "alone"
at the window these products look and feel commercial,
plain, cold, and stark.
Our Appology:
In the last few years we
have aided many of our clients in acquiring these types
of products and only now are the " real
problems" beginning to appear. For these "
alternative products" ----- and ---- their inherant
defects we not only sincerely appologise but stand ready
to replace any of those products with " real fabric
products " that are cleanable, last longer, are of
better design, and that really insulate. In other words
products of "real value" and at a reduced cost
to compensate for our customers losses on those
"alternative products".