SHIRE CONSERVATORIES

CAVEAT EMPTOR- BUYER BEWARE!! While I am enjoying the conservatory erected by Shire Conservatories the whole building process was a bit of a nightmare. Inadequate attention was made to how the conservatory was to be accomodated to the layout of the existing house, in particular existing pipework draining my kitchen. and bathroom. Little thought had been given to this before the building works commenced and continued at a frenetic pace and I had to confront the building workers about how the existing kitchen drainage system was to be retained along with adequate access to maintain it in the event of blockage within the conservatory extension., which they had given little thought to. Also I was unable to contact the owner about these concerns as he was away on holiday at the time. It is also apparent that some of the workers employed by Shire were somewhat sub standard and frankly incompetent in the following ways:- 1.The main roofing worker took a ridiculous short cut in dealing with the existing drainage from my bathroom by altering it so that the dirty water from the bath and sink drained onto the conservatory roof!! which would have been a health hazard!! The Building Regulations company naturally refused to pass the building works until the bathroom drainage had been diverted into the existing foul pipe. 2. Subsequent to the erection of the conservatory the 2 main electrical sockets failed because the electrician employed evidently failed to provide an adequate electrical extension of the existing house circuit. So i had to call out Shire to arrange for an alternative means of powering the two sockets which meant that a cable had to be run on the outside wall of the conservatory protected by a plastic tubing which looks awful. Would i recommend Shire? Not in a million years!