Thank you all for your help. We have gone with a local company who will make it to his measurement and it will look OK - don’t want our sitting room looking like an old people’s home, even though it is. Not paying VAT helps a bit too. Will let you know how we get on.
Having been dropping the idea into the conversation for weeks he now thinks it is a marvellous idea and can’t wait!
How will you stop the strikes?
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic