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John Rumm writes:
Mike Mitchell wrote:

What an amazing house! Since I once lived in Germany (for many
years)

I kind of felt it would be a bit like living in a museam - lots of
"show" but not quite "home". Still they looked prety pleased with
it -
and the nice plot of land they had made all the difference to it as
well.

The nice plot of land made all the difference. You wouldn't want to
live
in a
house like that where passersby could look in.

- Or where the local scrotes would take pleasure in throwing a paving
stone through it. An office building I used to work in had tinted
double
glazed aluminium windows facing south. Occasionally they would crack
and
would takes 3 months to get a replacement from the continent

Pilkington K are quicker., as St. Helens is quite near, and probably
cheaper
too.

Pilkington don't make windows !, they just supply the glass. And St.
Helens isn't near Croydon anyway. I did say tinted glass, so to replace
with the same tint you have to go back to original maker (Belgium).

The moral of the story is buy local. Belgium is not local.