Blinds & Shutters - Issue 4-2020

PROFILE
A safe return
Louvolite says that
its Carnival Fabrics
can help protect
the home
There’s a well known household product
that we likely all use which announces
proudly, via whichever media you come
across, that it kills 99% of all known germs.
We are told that the performance of this
product contains the active ingredients needed to
fight and kill germs and that it exceeds the World
Health Organisation recommended level for
disinfecting your home.
The website for this product provides
information on how to “effectively disinfect your
home from Coronavirus”. Reading through the
advice it’s easy to understand how people would
vigorously clean their homes and maintain that
level of hygiene on floors, worktops and hard
surfaces – but what about surfaces which are not
hard surfaces such as window blinds.
It has been stated that windows typically occupy
around15 - 20% of the surface area of the walls in
a home. From our industry’s perspective, that
presents significant opportunities to furnish those
openings and help protect the home from excess
solar gain and resultant overheating in summer
times and heat loss during wintertime - of course
they also add style, decoration, light control and
privacy too.
It’s almost part of Louvolite’s genetic make up
that we try to incorporate added features and
benefits into whichever product we offer to our
customers. So when Coronavirus entered into our
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