Many thanks for your Christmas card and your invitation to send you photographs of a Protech Conservatory.

I enclose some photo’s for you and hope you like them, what is probably not important to you but very satisfying to me is that all the front garden at Bellavista which is just finished last month after two years work was done by myself with no help.

I am 70 years of age and fit, I am “retired” but not tired..! I was the chairman of two plastic factories until I had three heart attacks and three heart operations including a treble by pass which regrettably caused some minor delays in my work schedule, and thankfully not the undertakers. I have never laid brickes before, or concrete blocks, or concrete foundations, or laid paths, or patio’s with balustrades. But I have always believed anybody can do anything if they put there mind to it, nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Having said that, I don’t think you should sell your conservatories (I erected that myself too) implying that even a 70-year-old great granddad can do it.

I use the conservatory now to do the things I like doing - I engrave glass, sculpture terracotta, and most of all I paint (every one of which are Italian scenes), listen to music and await the coming of spring.

The greenhouse was delivered in aluminium uncoated sections to be erected, I decided to paint it hammer finish white, sounds easy, its not. It caused hellish problems, a simple bit of advice is – do not apply any primer, undercoat or finish paint in the extruded section of the profile which eventually holds the flexible PVC rubber seal.

Thank you for your correspondence and thanks you for making me do things I have never done before, if you ever feel like visiting Bellavista in this Shangri La spot of the world you will be welcome. Spring is wonderful, Summer is unforgettable, Autumn is just a riot of colour and Winter is phenomenal.

Good luck to you all, thank you again,

Best wishes

Edd and Jean Brown


See the pictures of this conservatory being built here