Archive for February, 2009

Mannequin Blinds

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Baileys Blinds were asked by Gavin (and Dominic) of Patton Fit Out from Ballymena in Northern Ireland to supply and install some window blinds in the new Debenhams store in the Arc development in Bury St Edmunds. The blinds screen the shop front whilst displays are being changed. The display designers would rather reveal their creation to the public when it is complete and prevent people seeing the shop front under construction containing naked mannequins and in an untidy mess.

The windows are very tall (about four metres) so instead of  using conventional roller blinds operating from top to bottom Gavin from Pattons asked Baileys Blinds from Bury St Edmunds to supply and install roller blinds which pull up from the ground. The blinds clip into brackets attached to the shop front about two metres from the ground.

The rollerblinds were covered in Guardian White flame retardant fabric from Louvolite and were installed inside cassette boxes from Global International which were painted in light gray to match the shop front. (The choice of colour was nothing to do with Gavin).

Baileys Blinds completed the installation on time without disruption to the operation of the Bury St Edmunds Debenhams store which was receiving stock before opening in March 2009.

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Rattus

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Have just fitted some vertical blinds for a lady in Bury St Edmunds who keeps pet rats. When I arrived some of the rats peeked out of their beds inquisitively. I was allowed to have a hold and a stroke of some of them. They were very well behaved and did not mind being handled.

In the same week I also saw some chinchillas in another house in Bury St Edmunds. They are much bigger then rats but not as inquisitive or tame. Makes a change from cats and dogs!

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The Water Table

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

I went to measure some roller blinds in a lovely timber framed Tudor house about ten miles outside Bury St Edmunds.

There was a round filled in hole in the floor of the hall and I asked the lady if it was a well. She said that it was a mill stone set into the floor but that there was a well in the bathroom which she would show me.

The well had a glass cover and had lights beneath it which allowed me to see the depth of the water table. I was amazed to see that the water level was only about four feet beneath the bathroom floor. The bathroom appeared to be perilously close to flooding.

The lady said that this was normal considering how much rain and snow there had been and assured me that there was nothing to worry about!

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Meet the blindman

Monday, February 9th, 2009

I was sent to fit a venetian blind near Bury St Edmunds. A man who I had not met before answered the door. He came quite close to me and looked at me very closely. I tried to show him the badge on my coat but he still looked at me suspiciously. I found this strange because I would have been expected at this time on this day. It never occurred to me to say I ‘m from Baileys Blinds.

Then at last I said that I had come to fit the blind in bathroom. He said alright and led me into the house and offered to make me a drink while I got on with the job. He brought me a cup of tea a few minutes later and apologised for being hesitant at the front door. He then explained that he had limited vision and  was virtually blind.

I said that this was the first time I had met a blind man on a job and told him that I hadn’t realised that he was blind.He explained that the retinas in his eyes were damaged and he only had peripheral vision left. It allowed him to move around the house normally and made me think that his sight was normal.

I have been called ‘the blindman’ many times so it seemed strange to me to meet a blind man myself. There is more about the blindman on www.baileysblinds.com

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My Indian Life

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

My wife and I went to the Shapla Tandoori Indian restaurant in Bury St Edmunds. During the meal, which was very nice, we tried to remember all of the Indian restaurants we had eaten in.

We recalled the Mumtaz, Last Day of the Raj, Spice Kitchen and the new one in Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds. And there is another one at the top of Risbygate Street which we went in on a football curry night.(My wife did’nt come on that one)

There was also the very nice one in Brandon and the one we ate in in Buxton during a break last year.

Lastly our local takeaway The Hardwick Tandoori round the side of the Hardwick shops in Bury St Edmunds which is always brilliant!

If anybody knows any of the names I`ve missed please comment through www.baileysblinds.com

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