The Blog team has seen in the news today that the scrappage scheme enabling people to scrap their old car for £2000 towards a new one has ended. This scheme was introduced in May and proved very popular, figures showing that scrappage contributed to about 20% of all new car registrations since the scheme started, according to the Business Department.

Our very own scrappage scheme, the £2500 Anglian Window Scrappage Scheme is still running and continues to enable you to get two and a half grand off your new energy efficient double glazing with us. Not only will your house look beautiful with a new set of windows, you can save money on your heating and save energy too! To find out more, visit our scrappage scheme page or see below.

Just look at the evidence

To demonstrate we took thermal images of an ordinary house before and after fitting it with our B-rated energy saving windows. The heat escaping through the windows shows up as intense red areas, and you can clearly see in the thermal image of the Anglian windows, that the heat loss areas have disappeared, showing vastly improved heat retention.

You can also get 35% off your replacement windows as well as the £2500 for recycling your old ones.

We recently got involved with a Number 10 petition to help homeowners to scrap their old poorly insulated windows for a cash incentive of £1,000 to be used against the purchase of new  energy efficient windows. The petition has closed but 4468 signatures were gained and we expect to see a response from the government soon!

Anglian Home Improvements; striving to raise the standard & help you become more energy efficient in your home.

As you may or may not know, the ideal Home Show in all it’s glory is running until Easter Monday at 6pm when it closes until next year. We have another competition for you – but you need to be quick as it closes at 3pm tomorrow (31st March)!

To enter and win tickets, answer the following question:-

Which part of the Ideal Home Show is Anglian sponsoring?

a) The Show Gardens

b) The Ideal Village

c) The Central Arena

To enter simply email a, b or c to ideal.home@angliangroup.com including your name and address details and date of birth. The first 50 correct entries received will win subject to terms and conditions.  Winners will be contacted and tickets will be sent out by the end of Wednesday 31st March.

Good luck!

Terms and Conditions

* You must be over 18 years old to enter the competition.

* Tickets can only be used for adult or child entry although children under enter free.

* The ticket only allows free entry into the show therefore covers no other costs.

* No Anglian staff or affiliated parties should enter.

* Anglian reserve the right to change the competition rules at anytime.

This year’s Ideal Home Show has eight must see, not to be missed attractions displaying some truly breathtaking designs that are the a “must see” of 2010.

The Central Arena

Fancy some water this year, well this is the place for you. The Central Arena gives people the chance to get off the concrete and carpet in exchange for some off land experience.

Three deck bridges all lead to a superb floating cafe where you can sit back, put your feet up and watch the Ideal Home Show from the comfort of the boat while enjoying the delights of a mocha or two, perfect…

Ideal Home of the Future brought to you By Virgin Media

Into your gadgets and technological goodies? Look no further. The futuristic Virgin Media home presentation of what’s around the corner for in-home gadgets will make even the most illiterate technology family lick their lips in anticipation! No doubt you will find several members of the blog team here!

This area has more different homes than a monopoly board. Each home is designed specifically for a housing sector and will be a design to suite all needs.

Two houses, a single storey property and a two storey home called ‘Cube Living’ cover affordable, yet high tech living for the first time buyer. A three bedroom executive home features open plan living and a traditional town house provides accommodation for a family of four.

The fifth property looks at how you can update an existing home and reduce your running costs, and of course all have stunning interiors designed to give you plenty of decorating ideas and inspiration.

Zilli Cafe

Situated on the upper tier at the Ideal Home Show, the Zilli Cafe offers the perfect blend of great coffee and Italian food. Set in the quieter part of the show this place truly offers the ideal escape from the hustle below.

Celebrity Chef Theatre

Celebrity Chef Theatre

Food, what more can we say. Fancy yourself as a bit of a Gordon Ramsey or Jamie Oliver and this is the place for you. Learn some additional cooking skills from the pro’s and take your new found knowledge back home and rustle up a feast for friends and family. I’m getting hungry just talking about it!

Show Gardens

It’s official, the met office have said that spring is here therefore what better time to dust off your gardening gloves and get into your garden. At the Ideal Home Show this year is a dedicated show garden designed by top TV gardening guru David Domoney. Get a low down on all the latest garden fashions, tips and become the envy of your neighbours.

Don’t forget to keep an eye out on the blog over the next few weeks for regular updates from the Ideal Home Show.

Anglian Home Improvements. Proud sponsors of this year’s Ideal Home Show Village.

Anglian are proud to be sponsoring a 24 hour Fishathon on behalf of one of our employees Mark Barley who’s 7 year old son Ashley is ill with a brain tumour. The money raised will be going towards a once in a life time experience for Ashley, as well as possibly helping to buy him a specially adapted bicycle so he can ride again.

Ashley with his Mum, Sam

The 24 hour Fishathon will be held at Gorleston from 1pm on 5th-6th June, with the anglers meeting at 11:30 to ready themselves for the event. A trophy will be presented to the angler with the biggest fish and all monies raised will be presented to Mark and his family on June 13th at Mackintosh’s Canteen in Norwich.

Norfolk Beach Buddies

There will be a BBQ and drinks for all taking part so anybody is welcome to come along and add their support throughout the day / night. You can turn up on the day if you want to join in with the Fishathon if you don’t mind sponsoring someone and contributing to this very worthy cause!

It is also hoped that Anglian TV and the Eastern Daily Press will be present at the event to raise awareness as well. For more information on this event or to offer help or donate some money, please contact the blog team at blog@angliangroup.com or visit the Facebook page.

The Anglian Blog Team.

The blog team visited the Ideal Home Show this week and have taken loads of pictures to show you what a great spectacle it was!

Anglian Crescent with a view of the executive house with Anglian Verandah concept

The Anglian Show Village was draped in Union Jack bunting and flags for press day – which also coupled as a ‘Support our soldiers day’. We took this picture early on, showing the executive house which shows off our new Verandah concept. More on that in another post! Later as the crowds swooped in a marching band played and jive dancing took place to keep everyone entertained as they waited to go into the houses at Anglian Crescent.

The marching band in Anglian Crescent

The transformation house in Anglian Crescent is split into two parts – one side of the semi-detached house is functional and well loved, containing 80’s furniture and décor together with original 80’s windows and doors. The other half of the property is fitted with a range of Anglian Home Improvement products to create a direct comparison and to show the huge steps in energy efficient designs over the last two decades.

Anglian's 3D make-over house

We will write more next week on the Conservatory Verandah concept which we unveiled and hoped to wow the crowd with; as well as announce another ticket giveaway to give you the chance to go and see all of this for yourself!

In the mean time, check out the official Ideal Home Show video for Day 3, with clips of the marching band and everything!

Anglian Home Improvements, proud sponsors of the Ideal Home Show Village.

A quick post to say watch this video for some great insights into what the Ideal Home Show has to give this year!

The Blog team are planning a visit this week and have some photos to collate for you so keep an eye out!

This years biggest home show opened it’s doors to the public on Saturday the 20th of March at 10am and for 17 days where you’ll be able to see the very best and latest innovations in home improvement products. The Ideal Home Show held at Earls Court London, continues to attract huge the crowds year on year and again is one of the “must see” events of 2010.

Once again there is a star studied line up of home Improvement experts such as Fiona Phillips, Monty Don, Linda Barker, George Clarke, Gregg Wallace and Suzi Perry. Also with an extinguished list of market leading companies the Ideal Home Show covers all requirements from advice and tips to those once in a life time bargain buys for your home!

 
The Anglian Blog team have been jumping around in excitement about this event all week. Not only is there the chance to see the new conservatory vernadah concept which is being unveiled especially at this year’s show village, but there are also a number of other leading home and technology stands where we can get our hands on some amazing new gadgetry!

For a chance to win some great tickets for this event please keep your eye on the Blog for another Ideal Home ticket competition which will be happening over the duration of the event.

Finally from the Blog Team we hope to see you all at the Ideal Home Show.

Anglian Home Improvements. Proud sponsors of the Ideal Home Show Village.

Day four of the build completed we have a new video to show you…check out the lovely background to the Ideal Show Village!

We are very excited that the Ideal Home Show opens tomorrow, and the Blog Team will be down in London on Monday at the Press Day to get you some exclusive pictures and information on how good it all looks.

The National Window Scrappage Scheme petition created by the Glass and Glazing Federation is coming to an end and we hope to see a response from the government soon. The deadline for the petition is next Wednesday 24th so if you agree that it would be a good idea for homeowners to get £1000 scrappage for their old windows towards new energy efficient double glazing, then sign up and spread the word!

The petition has already achieved over 4,400 signatures of support.

The scheme aims to:

“Allow for an improvement to the existing housing stock to reduce Carbon and CO2 emissions and cut household energy bills. The Scheme to be open only to companies who professionally install windows with a C Window Energy Rating or above and who responsibility recycle the existing windows that are removed.”

Months ago the 500 signature threshold was reached meaning a response to the petition from number 10 Downing Street is required.

Please sign the National Window Scrappage Scheme petition and help the country make our houses more energy efficient!

The Anglian Blog Team

Below is the third instalment of a series of time-lapse video showing the complexity and work going on at the Ideal Home Show in preparation for Saturday’s grand opening!

Don’t forget to keep an eye out on the blog for further Ideal Home competitions where you could win entry to this years must see home improvement event.

Anglian Home Improvements. Proud sponsors of the Ideal Home Show Village.