Awning Seasons Approaches Nottinghamshire and Nottingham

Feb 2011

Outdoor or Patio Awnings

Well believe it or not it is the start of the main awning season, hopefully the weather will get warmer and if it like last year the days become very bright.

Awning are investment on your property and shouldn't be taken likely. With our awnings being manufactured to order you can expect a turn around of 3-6 weeks for your order to installation, depending on the time of year, it is time to start getting organised with Bradrail assistance.

Bradrail Awnings and Blinds has been a prolific made to measure awning manufacturer and installer for over 35 years; So we know about awnings !!

With being the Nottingham and East Midlands partner of German award winner awning manufacture "Weinor" and there innovated design and German engineering.

Make sure that if you do buy an awning to either install yourself that you ensure that if they are not UK manufactured that they carry the relevant CE stamps on the brackets and the awning themselves especially in commercial environments.

What does this mean : Reports of cheap Chinese or garden center awnings which have been imported may not have been tested or carry this certification and if placed outside your home or business and fail that the owner will be held responsible.

Weinor Awnings may be more expensive, but you are not simply paying for a standard awning.

Options Include

Awnings width : made to your exact size / requirements with the ability to go up to over 7 meters

Awning Case Colour: A choice of 47 colours including for the case, frame work and brackets. With optional trendy conservatory colour at small increment, and the abilty to match RAL colour to match corporate colours and branding

Awning Fabrics: Choice of 200+ fabric

Awning Arms: These are Weinor broken knuckle design,, these arms dont completly straighten and allow if strong winds for the awning arm to move independently, instead of both arms pulling on the arms at the same time which can put strain and even pull an normal awning off the wall in strong winds.

Awning Projection : Most off the shelf awnings are only a couple of meters projection, firstly ensure this is sloping meter projection as this is how far the fabric covers.

Bradrail offers free advice and surveys, advice you on the different types and style of awning, the additional feature certain models incorporated. Fitted to high specification with no chemical fillers only using secure anchor bolts, we add the addition of a conduit covering outdoor mains cable which is made from silicon and rubber so even the heat wont effect it and additional safety with a RCD plug to allow you to unplug it, and additional safety protection your awning. This is above the standard of most awning provided and installers.

Bradrail skills from the construction industry, allows us to design and manufacture specialist awnings brackets to allow buildings to take on awning, something few companies can provide.

Build Construction and Warranty

Your awning should last for many, many years without any hassle. Bradrail after service will continue to support you through your warranty and for the years to come even after your initial warranty.

Awning Repairs

Bradrail is able to advice people on their existing weinor awnings even if they have not been purchased or installed by ourselves, and have the possibility of recovering other models of awning on inspection.

The awning from Bradrail Awnings and Blinds Nottingham comes with a 2 year warranty from the date of installation, Weinor awnings can be recovered and also have repairs carried out on them due to their modularization and TUV and CE standardized parts

Bradrail Awnings and Blinds Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. East Midlands. NG6 8QH

Awnings Areas Covered : Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and the central East Midlands Areas.

Bradrail New Look Site Launch

Bradrail awnings and blinds | Nottingham has been looking at new ways of attracting customers and giving them a chance to see our unique service and selling points when it comes to choice of blinds and awnings in Nottingham.

We realised that more customers surf the web during the day to find the right company our original website was getting old fashioned and didn't really help in information to customers

This is our first step as well develop new tools and give you the customer a chance to see our products and get the best information

There is a long way to go.. but we will get there for if your looking for vertical blinds nottingham, roller blinds nottingham, venetian blinds nottingham, pleated blinds nottingham, office blinds nottingham, commercial blinds nottingham, conservatory blinds nottingham, or awnings nottingham in fact for most type of internal and external window blinds Bradrail is the company that can assist you all the way through the process and we are hoping our website will be informative and provided you information which allow you make the right choices.

Blinds

Blinds in Nottingham

Bradrail awnings and blinds provide a wide range of blinds, whether you need a whole office or house freshly installed with Blinds or just upgrading one room.

Bradrail have a selection of quality blinds and fittings for commercial and domestic application.

Bradrail blinds are manufactured by us and have been designed and tested to be the highest possible quality.

With any blind product manufactured by ourselves you can expect it to has a minimum life span of 5 years and from the reports of the customers still going strong after 22+ years.

Our domestic customers gets the same blind systems as our commercial customers. These are durable and built to withstand more than normal domestic blinds, and can take heavy and bigger drop and width than cheaper alternative and last so much longer.

To find out more about the blinds you require simply click on the below image

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  Bradrail Vertical Blinds
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  Bradrail Roller Blinds
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  Bradrail Venetian Blinds
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  Bradrail Pleated Blinds

Want to change your blinds?

Bradrails blinds last much longer give you a dilemma, what happen when you change the style or décor of you room, well we have made sure that you dont have to buy a whole new blind saving you money.
The heavy duty components that we use, usually outlasting the design of the fabrics, your blind should be seen as an investment and we are able to offer a roller recovering or slat replacement service for vertical blinds, so when you get bored with your fabric just bring your blind in, select a new fabric and we will revive your old blind giving it a new lease of life and costing approx 50% less then buying a brand new blind.

Electronically operated and Motorised Blinds

The latest technology is in automation of blinds, Bradrail has taken it experience of outside awnings and applied it to automating roller blinds and electronically controlling vertical blinds with a simple touch of button, simple as changing the channel on your tv.
This now provides a solution for where blinds would be difficult to be manually operated such as in high places or where ease and operation
Complex configurations to control individual blinds or provide group control (multiple windows all from a single remote)

Commercial and Public Applications

Commercial and client where blinds are in public bring certain issues we can assist you with from simply advising on flame retardant fabrics, blackout blinds, computer environment fabrics, wipe-able or hygienic guards or encased blinds to keep blinds cleaner and provide a protective casing.

Customisation and Branding

We can provide you with customisation of products to fit in to your environment, from roller blinds with your company logo and colour scheme, to one off digital prints of your favourite photo, or just simply coloured coordinated to your business brand or shop and producing the right impression.

Bradrail Blinds Nottingham & Louvolite Virtual Fabric Books

Bradrail Blinds to include new 2009 louvolite online fabrics books

Bradrail Awnings and Blinds in Nottingham have always had a strong relationship with Louvolite; one of the main blinds component manufactures and blind fabric producers and suppliers.

With the credit crunch upon us, home improvements and decorating has increased as we no longer see a house or residency as a commodity, now its somewhere we want to be and feel comfortable.

Bradrail Blinds Fabric Collection

Bradrail normally looks at compiling its own collection from the best of some of the biggest suppliers, like Louvolite , Decora, RA Irwings, Eclipise, these normally change every 3-4 years, but these companies are looking for fresher design and prints and styles to complement decors around the UK.

Even thought Bradrail's own collection of fabrics, we have negotiated some of the best prices and carry as standard stock items of approximately 400+ fabrics, Bradrail has always offered customer full access to the full fabric ranges available from these companies to special order.

Louvolite have ensured that new collection is more accessible to the customer in a virtual fabric books, a way of browsing through their current collection of fabrics on your home pc even before you called us to book an appointment.

Even thought Bradrail always suggest that you get a sample of any fabric due to the colour matching of computers and monitors, to ensure you have the right fabric, the first time.

Virtual Fabrics Books

To use these fabric books simply click on the required book and it will open a new web page and display a similar page to below
Most of the items are accessed by moving your mouse over and clicking your mouse button

We have identified the main interface point for you to be able to use this, these are denoted by the red numbers.

1. Navigation : Turn/ flip the page : open the next page and turns it to be visible on the left hand side


2. Navigation : Turn /flip the page back : move the page back / returns to the previous page


3. Quick Navigiation : Fabric Colours : A quick jump to section of the book where you will expect to see the main selection which matches the colour choice


4. Home : Reload the book and starts at the front pag


5. Key : Symbols / Keys for the advanced information about the fabrics to help you understand associated symbols


6. Page Navigation : By clicking these arrows at the top and bottom of each page, it allows you to flip through pages

1. Display Section Information and Example Photos


2. Navigation [as before to flip pages - see above section for more details


3. Strips / Samples of fabrics : To have a close look up and more information simply move your mouse to the appropriate coloured sample and then click with your mouse [see below for next screen]


4. Helper : When moving over fabrics a pop up will show you the name of the fabric you are looking at for reference

1. Navigation : Click-able : This button displays the close up swatch [show in the picture above]


2. Navigation : Click-able : This button displays a photograph [see picture below] NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE


3. Navigation : Click-able : Close this window and return you back to the fabric so you are able to browse the main book again


4. Specification : This gives you information about the fabrics including the name, the colour, composition, roll size and the repetition of the pattern


5. Key Symbols : Displays images to give you more information for the fabrics [to understand the keys you need to click the main SYMBOLS KEY in the top right of the blue banner at the top of the page - see below for a snapshot of the page

ABOVE IMAGE - Showing the effect when the View Photograph Button is clicked : Notice the Swatch has changed to a photo of the blind : To return click Swatch Details

BELOW IMAGE - Demonstrate the Symbols Key screen helping you to understand the symbols on the virtual swatch card.

To close the key symbols screen and return to fabric browsing - simply click the cross in the top right corner

Well there is all the instruction you will be required to navigate the Bradrail Awnings and Blinds and Louvolite Virtual Fabric Books, so now click the following links to select and load that particular virtual book.

Fabrics Books Available

• Roller Blind Fabrics
  

• Vertical Blind Fabrics

• Pleated Blinds Fabrics

• Roman Blinds Fabrics

• Wood Weave Blinds Fabrics

(c) Bradrail Awnings and Blinds in Nottingham & Louvolite Window Blind System & Components. UK
7-15 Main Street, Bulwell, Nottingham, East Midlands. NG6 8QH. Telephone 0115 927 5251 and main website at http://www.bradrail.co.uk

Google Blinds in Nottingham

Google and Blinds in Nottingham

Well finally looks like all the hard work in seo is slowly paying off. We have now just taken the no 1 spot in google for blinds nottingham

Blinds Nottingham

As stated in the last post it seem to be a non winner as I couldnt get passed applegate, but now with me changing from one domain name and then changing it back it seems to have a prolific effect

I think this was more luck than black art seo tricks. I am so glad that i have finally cracked it.. now the next stage is to get version 2 of the website up and get a blog incorporated and rss feeds..

Blinds in Nottingham

Also looking now to pick up on the keyword variation off blinds in nottingham lets see how it goes

www.bradrailblinds.co.uk

Blinds Nottingham

Ongoing SEO improvement

Well I decided to get a couple of new url on the basis of seeing if they would provide better organic seo results.

Introduction of www.bradrailblinds.co.uk

I noticed a lot of google results of blinds companies seem to get better ranking with xxxxxblinds.co.uk and whilst we are www.bradrail.co.uk i thought one of higher ranking position is through the applegate directory which had us at the 2nd position [even though we paid for a bigger package than the No.1 position due to more companies being called elite [a local competitor] and included the word blinds in their domain name. The applegate directory can hold a lot of weight in similar companies our page rank was a value of 5 with www.bradrail.co.uk since the change the new page rank is 1

I registered a couple of domains with my a company called heartinternet including www.bradrailblinds.co.uk blinds-in-nottingham.co.uk and also awnings-in-nottingham.co.uk thinking i could 301 map them to the original domain www.bradrail.co.uk but unfortunately they want 20 quid a domain and the dns forwarding in their control panel didn't want to play ball and myself a little bit unsure how to set to forward to our site with host reseller with heart internet.

So I had to be satisfied with their domain mapping tool which points a 302 redirect [which isn't search engine friendly] so will have to wait a couple of month before transferring them to the web account and then renewing from their.

The results

Well so far our applegate entry now lives on page 2 of google, but our own seo listing is still on page 1 position 2 [no change]

So what ?

Well we thought we relied on the applegate directory entry for good web presence and also helping us get to position 2 but it looks like that has been built on own web presence

The future
Well I will eventually transfer the domain started to add it some directories and possible try and see if there is any change and it the domain name holds more weight. In the mean time

Is it All worth it ?

I am trying to flog a dead horse finding more ways of getting to no 1 in google organic results with the key phrase blinds nottingham or I should be content with the No 2 position and the position 1 and sub position 2 from the applegate directory

Currently i chickened out leaving the www.bradrailblinds.co.uk in the applegate directory and restored it the www.bradrail.co.uk

Conservatory Blinds Nottingham

New articles about blinds which are suitable for conservatories has been added to the Bradrail Blinds Blog articles section

Visit Conservatory Blinds in Nottingham

http://www.nottinghamblinds.wordpress.com/conservatory-blinds/

Please feel to have a read

Cheap Blinds Are They Worth It Article

I have just finished writing an article about cheap blinds on the blog, it discusses the ideas of customer requiring cheap blinds and how it can be more hassle than letting someone professional like ourselves and remove the stress and strain of saving a few pence.

It discusess the DIY method and buying blind off the internet and the positives and pitfalls

Bradrail awnings and blinds in Nottingham still provides the personal touch and can assist in the DIY blind for a customer but it is our made to measure blind installation service which provides the customer with the best information and a far wider choice compared to an online site and the ability to actually feel and see the true colour of fabrics and finshes and have someone to be able to question and ask to suggest ideas to bring it in to your budget.

Cheap Blinds are they worth the hassle

Awnings and Blinds | Nottingham hits google street maps

Google Street Maps snaps Bradrail Blinds Nottingham UK

Well after the global news release of street maps today from Google, I thought I would have a bit of a play and see if the Bradrail awnings and blinds showroom in Nottingham was shot in to hyperspace.

The awnings and blinds showroom in Bulwell Nottingham is large retail showroom and manufacturing facility for Bradrail Google Maps Bradrail Blinds Nottingham UK to see the google street maps photo of Bradrail Nottingham UK -[click here]

I thought it would be a great idea to provide a link to the image courtsey of google since either people seem to know or where and what the Bradrail showroom looks like or they dont.

The large showroom provided the space for over 400+ blinds on display and the additional choice of 1000 of additional fabrics to special order from the largest UK suppliers.

Blinds Fabrics included

• Plain Blind Fabrics
• Jacquard Blind Fabrics
• Block Repeat Blind Fabrics
• Designer Print Blind Fabrics
• Faux Suede Blind Fabrics
• Weave Blind Fabrics
• Black out Blind Fabrics

The showroom is also home to the largest awning showroom in Nottingham and the East Midlands if not the whole UK (so we have been told by awning represenative) over 20 awnings on interaction display with over 100 plus waterproof and uv protection fabrics.

So there is no excuse not to find us and pay us a visit.. apart from one and this is if you want us to come and visit you with our own on site measuring and fitting service carried out by CRB approved staff

New Post at nottinghamblinds.wordpress.com

Well I been added a few articles on the nottingham blinds wordpress site that I have set up to write generic articles about awnings and blinds... I think I am slowly getting better at writing informative interesting articles.. still seeing fluctation in the blinds nottingham key phrase in google

New blog nottingham blinds at wordpress

This little old blog originally supposed to be more about me as i learn about blogging and writing articles and hopefully discussing and airing issues.

Well i thought i better off dividing the blogs to more relevant structure.

So i created a new blog at blinds nottingham at wordpress or the full url being http://nottinghamblinds.wordpress.com/

I hope you find it usefull and heres to blogging

Bradrail Awnings & Blinds Nottingham 40th Year

There are many awnings and blinds companies in Nottingham, but I have to say that Bradrail its still one of the oldest now in 2009 they are operating with 40 years experience even though officially it is longer since the proprietor originally trading as "pick a rail" for years installing rails for the construction industry and then rails and curtains to local home owners before the explosion of blinds and then awnings. Now Bradrail Awnings and Blinds Nottingham [Bulwell UK]

With Bradrail experience the original goal was to install quality products, as the from the beginning it makes for happier customers. This is proven by having customers coming in 27 years later saying there blinds are still working... make a big difference in this throw away society.

Bradrail knows there are lots of ways of cutting corners, making things cheaper to fit a customers price as people come in and tell us their horror stories when the cheaper products fail in reliability or the original companies who installed them customer service...usually just after the warranty.. inst that just typical.

40 years of trading and dealing with blinds and awnings has allowed a total of 300 plus combined experienced and knowledge in making and manufacturing blinds and awnings and proving a professional installation service through Nottingham and Mansfield and the surrounding Nottinghamshire areas.

Ok things like the website are not the most modern @ http://www.bradrail.co.uk but we are working at that

Our SEO work carries on to get us back to No 1 in google with the keywords blinds nottingham but it takes a lot.

Anyway as we carry on we look forward to another 40 years of quality stylish and reliable products with the personal touch taking the hastle and giving our customer satisfaction

well busy busy busy

things are going well ...

spending a lot of time trying different seo techniques to get us on top of google.. i am no seo pro.. i learning all the time.. especially since it changes every day and every one has their opinion
trying for the keywords blinds nottingham which seems so popular.

Also looking at getting higher on the blinds mansfield page as well.. but it seem so much competition and not sure what the next step is forward.

inbound link building seems a good way. but very expensive... not too sure if we should tackle the word blinds as national link as we are only regional covering nottingham mansfield derby and a bit of leciester

it the same with postcode lookups whilst there is all this stuff for postcode to try and to some software which i am developing its hard to get the postcode for NG, DE, LE

anyway time to go..

Awning Season in Nottingham in full swing now

Well after a slow start, and finally a bit of some sun in Nottingham we been having people ring us about awnings. Bradrail Blinds and Awnings in Nottingham usually is a lot busier with awnings if the sun comes out and bastes us with all its glory... rather than the usuall grey cloud.

We recently did a really nice conservatory awning ... instead of awning come off brackets and suspended in the air, this fits on to of the frame work of the conservatory.

Look really nice even though it was really hard to do, since access to get the awning up on to the top of the conservatory was a mamoth task .. but it was soon all fixed in ... (also a bit scary since the conversatory is solid glass ceiling ...so extra care was required

Will do some picture of soon of the how it went together which will show you the scale of the job... but we all learnt something.

Glad we tend to install Weinor German awnings though, the build quaility is awesome ( i like to call them the rolls royce of awnings) and wouldnt want to be doing that 6m length awning with a cheap and chearfull alternative...

anyway a bit more later.

Bank Holidays Blues

Well here the ends the bank holiday .. and spending time looking to develope the website at trying to get a learn more about seo ...

The problem i find is there is so much SEO information out there to read and some contradicts the other..

Currently i think most of the optimisation is due to page ranks with the companies.. but it can be a hit and miss affair..

We spent a load of cash with a company which had a high page rank and google likes but a local competitor who pays a basic listing but has a common directory name like "A1" or "Elite" which a lot of companies uses it increase his page rank ... which we paid for his no 1 position in google in a way..

What a bummer.. so we have cut that down .. but its knowing what else a humble ICT person can do..

There is a local SEO company which has been recommended .. but its how do you know if they are any good that want £850 and i know that no one can g/tee results but need to create traffic which I know I have done my fair bit since i been talking the result of the website http://www.bradrail.co.uk/ from about 10-15 a week to about 100 .. i know the site needs a lot of work ..
since each section is pretty bare and doesnt give the customer any idea of price.. just a general description of information like vertical blinds, roller blinds, venetian blinds, awnings

I have tried to tweak the keywords in meta tags and also try and do different descriptions but i hear more about less about keywords and more of keyword density.. do i get rid of the keywords.. ???

Half of it is having people within the company right good content but what is good content, and how should i appease google and other seo with things to help its ranking

I am interested in any comments people who could assist or advise with

Anyway back to the grind stone more later...

First post about Bradrail Blinds and Awnings in Nottingham

Well welcome to my first blogging site.

I am just a humble IT consultant who helps out a few friends with IT issues.

Currently I helping out an friend with loads of bits of bobs based at Bradrail Blinds and Awnings in Nottingham.

Talking from learning about blinds and awnings and writing software to calculate size and shapes and redesign of their website on top of learning SEO stuff .

I love problems to try and solve.. i am no specialist in any area.. but able usually to conquer most things.

Starting to get in to joomla and want to revamp the site... stiff learning curve .. but i am sure i will get it some thing up and running soon

Got some great friend at TWD Marketing who run a directory service and help me get stuff up and running..so a big hi to Dave and Tony.. and thanks for their add they also run the uk business directory which is at http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/twd/twd-blinds/1.html

http://http//www.twdmarketing.co.uk/blinds1/nottingham.html

I am sure i will post a load of things on ere for discussion and maybe let you in to some blinds and awning secrects as i have to have a full insight..

Recently went to a BBSA show where i learn and saw load about awnings and blinds

Had a really good chat with a really nice bloke called Marc from Weinor who just such a nice bloke.. and really knowledgeable about engineering and awnings and since Bradrail Blinds and Awnings are the East Midlands Premier Awning Specialist throughout Nottingham he helps me with all the technical stuff about specifications and etc.

I can see why weinor make the rolls royce of awnings.. especially after seeing some pics of those lovely cheap chineese awnings which the fitter at Bradrail have had to go and investigate..

Hopefully i will post some of them on here.. cause you will laugh.. !!!!

But loving the new perfectfit blind system from Louverlite who have created a way of having blinds on double glazing systems without drilling holes.. but that is a whole new chapter

if you have any queries about blinds and awnings..

i will try and answer them as well might take me a bit of time..

so if you are thinking of getting blinds installed like

• Vertical Blinds
• Roller Blinds
• Venetian Blinds
• Pleated or Conservatory Blinds
• Awnings or Canopies
  

Then write me a note at blinds-nottingham@bradrail.co.uk and see what i can do to help you

Otherwise check out their website at http://www.bradrail.co.uk/ or http://www.bradrail.net/


Anyway there is some beer a calling so more laters..