Blinds and shutters website design that books the home measure

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

In Great Britain the law is the General Product Safety Regulations 2005, which allow only safe products to be supplied. The standard for internal blinds, BS EN 13120:2009+A1:2014, was revised in 2014 to deal with looped cords and chains, and the government lists it, with two standards on strangulation hazards, as giving a presumption that a blind is safe. OPSS says new blinds with looped cords must have child safety devices "installed at the point of manufacture or be sold with the blind". The government's 2014 Q&A calls the standard voluntary and following it "sufficient, but not necessary", so the accurate line for your website is that every corded blind you fit has its safety device fitted, rather than any claim about what the law bans. In Northern Ireland, the EU's General Product Safety Regulation has applied since 13 December 2024.

Often not, and your paperwork has to say so. Anywhere in the UK, the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 treat an order agreed in the customer's home as an off-premises contract, and the right to cancel does not apply to goods made to the consumer's specifications. Trading Standards' Business Companion gives a made-to-measure pair of curtains as an example, and says goods made to a specification simply by combining stock items do not count, so a blind put together from stock parts keeps the usual 14 days from delivery. Whether the exception also covers the fitting may depend on the order, so your terms should say what applies. The customer must be told before they are bound, on paper, or by email if they agree. Where the right does apply and you fit inside the 14 days, get their request in writing first. Our quote template includes the cancellation form.

Yes, if the terms are clear and fair. Any deposit and its conditions belong in the written information a customer gets before an order taken in their home binds them (Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, Schedule 2). If they later cancel, the CMA's guidance on fair terms says what you keep "must take into account what your business will actually lose", and a term that keeps prepayments whatever the reason is unlikely to be fair. A deposit of no more than a small percentage of the price can be kept in full if your terms say exactly when it stops being refundable. Blinds already made for one set of windows may not be resaleable, so the loss can be real. If you cancel and the customer is not at fault, the CMA's guidance is to refund it. The quote-writing guide shows where the deposit sits on the quote.

A free measure, yes, as long as the visit, the samples and the written quote cost nothing and the site is clear about any commitment, such as none to order: CAP Code rules 3.23 and 3.24 cover both points. Free fitting is harder. Rule 3.25 says an element included in a package price must not be called free unless it was recently added without the price going up, and CAP's rule of thumb is to stop calling an element free once it has been in the package for more than six months. If fitting is always in your price, measured and fitted, or fitting included, says it truthfully. Since 6 April 2025, UK law has also banned calling something free when the customer has to pay anything beyond the unavoidable cost of responding (the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, Schedule 20).

Either works, if the basis is plain and one line never mixes the two. About 140 UK searches a month ask for plantation shutters cost per window, so a price for a typical window, with its size stated, matches how those searches are phrased; per square metre suits bays and unusual shapes. CAP Code rule 3.22 says a from-price must not exaggerate how often it is available, and CAP's advice applies a significant-proportion test, case by case, with any relevant restriction stated beside the price. So quote a starting figure you really fit at, say what it includes, and leave the exact price to the written quote.

Not if the deadline is false. Since 6 April 2025 the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, which applies across the UK, bans falsely saying a price or product is available only for a limited time to push an immediate decision. The same schedule bans ignoring a customer's request to leave their home, and making a materially inaccurate claim about the safety risk to anyone living there if they do not buy, which matters when you talk about old corded blinds. A written quote that stays open for a stated number of days, said on the website and on the quote, gives the customer time and you a firm date.