The Curtain Agency

Breastmill House Steadings Kirkliston, United Kingdom EH29 9EA
01313333606

NHS Discount:
We value the Services that NHS staff provide. As Owner of this business, I am wheelchair bound with a severe painful Spinal Cord condition and spent over 2 years in hospital receiving treatment for my condition. I am eternally grateful to all those who helped patch me back together again. I spent 2 weeks on a life support machine and what seemed like forever in recovery thereafter On any Curtain Purchases totalled up, we will offer a 5% Discount on any combined totals over £500 and 10% on any combined totals over £1,000 (Offer excludes any New or 2nd Hand curtains that have already had their starting or RRP prices discounted). In today's context of "Special Offers", our Discount Offer may not seem "a lot" but our prices are generally MUCH MUCH LOWER than anywhere else (unlike quite a large number of large retail organisations, who have the logistics & facilities to artificially raise prices in order to offer a never ending stream of all year round 25-50% Sales or "free making up offers" (with rubbish linings provided etc) to all comers thinking of using their services. It doesn't take a genius to work out that there is always a "catch". There always is! For many NHS staff, they could never possibly conceive spending £500 on a house/flat's worth of curtains but in Scotland, many that move to our larger cities are often caught out by just how the tall & large the windows are in much of the cities period accommodation where windows are often 8'/2.5m tall - 12'/3.7m tall; these windows are too large to cope with standard sized ready made curtains (that are designed & only available for modern homes with maximum curtain heights of 230cms). With tight budgets & often limited shopping time, it is no wonder that the Curtain Agency, located in the centre of Scotland, (close to Edinburgh's airport) is so popular with NHS staff moving home or upgrading their home furnishings for any tall or bay window in their rented accommodation too. A well made pair of interlined curtains at these larger sizes can contain a huge amount of potential heat loss on even double glazed windows, so come and take a look and see what we can offer! You will always receive a warm welcome

About The Curtain Agency

Already highly popular with NHS Staff (Doctors are one of our biggest customer sectors), for over 20 years The Curtain Agency has operated Scotland's Sole 2nd Hand Curtain Exchange, where we have OVER 1,600 Good Quality Curtains of all Shapes & Sizes(85"/218cm - 87"/223cm being the most popular heights) in our Displays. In that respect we are a "Unique Business for Scotland" but we also have the additional kudos of displaying far & away the largest collections of Tall Curtains (those over 9'/275cm in height) of anywhere in the UK & Europe. Prices of curtains in our 2nd hand Displays are on average @1/3rd what they would normally cost New today and all curtains are vetted before we accept them (they are all sold on a commission basis for their owners)! We also offer a large range of Discounted New Fabrics & with a small team of 6 local seamstresses, we offer a competitively priced quality Curtain & Blind Making & Alterations Service. Our combined pricing for extra tall large Curtains (those over 10'/3m and those requiring interlining to keep out those cold case & sash window draughts) are some of the lowest priced in the UK. We regret we DO NOT OFFER an on-line service and ON A SERIOUS NOTE, WOULD CAUTION ANYONE ordering Made to Measure Curtains or Blinds from a Curtain/Blind Maker located 100 miles+ from your home. 5 years ago, our 2nd hand agency department used to receive about 1 brand new curtain pair a month week from disgruntled on line curtain purchasers. Today the Agency side receives on average about 5 new curtain sets a month and it continues to rise through so many naive bargain Hunters ordering curtains from computer screen photographs or only small fabric swatches that they sometimes provide through the post t. DON'T DO IT! We see the consequences when things go wrong & go wrong THEY DO! The consequences can be Very Expensive & Time Consuming! If you read the small print from these on line marketeers, you will find that many of them do NOT OFFER a Full Refund Service (by Law on Made to Measure Commissions they do not have to) and even if they did, the shipping costs for large curtains and the hassle factor trying to touch base with companies only interested in making a sale and not taking the (sometimes poorly made) curtains back, makes a market TO AVOID We only provide a Service to those who visit our Salesrooms; those who do, are often mesmerized by the huge numbers of curtains that they can see that we have in our displays & they welcome the chance to see the curtains in full before buying them (and not having to try to select from inaccurate colours on a computer screen of from a small swatch of fabric sent by post or provided to take to your home). Our Approval Service of allowing any of the 2nd Hand Quality Curtains or any of our Made to Measure fully made up Curtain Samples & trying them in your home before committing to a "Full Purchase" is highly popular too. It helps to avoid the mistakes that so many appear to suffer from ordering from on-line curtain makers chasing business by offering to make up curtains at the cheapest prices available in the market!

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