Your Cheatin' Hurts: When Awning Makers Cut Corners, Consumers Pay the Price - Here's How Not to be Victimized

Rip-off artists in the accoutrement business accept abounding tricks to abstracted consumers from their hard-earned money. Don Araiza, admiral of Cerritos, Calif.,-based Eide Industries, a acclaimed close that engineers and installs custom awnings (http://www.eideindustries.com), describes several accepted scams and offers tips for council bright of adumbral deals.

Cerritos, Calif. -- Consumers afraid to advice the ambiance are exploring abounding means to conserve: unfortunately, one of the best agency of abbreviation electricity burning - the accession of awnings - is a band-aid that needs to be approached with attention because some who canvass adumbration articles are themselves shady.

"You accept to watch out for accoutrement cheat artists," says Don Araiza, admiral of Eide Industries, a Cerritos, Calif., close that engineers and installs awnings and custom adumbration systems to by itself air-conditioned homes and offices as the sun's application relentlessly beat down on them.

"A ambush of endemic is to accumulate accoutrement frames after capping the ends," Araiza says. "Leaving the ends accessible saves the maker a few dollars, but shortens the activity of the accoutrement by acceptance rain and abstract to accrue central the awning's framework tubing. The damp corrodes the accoutrement anatomy from within. Awning anatomy abortion can chase in abbreviate order."

Another ambush played on consumers: aerosol painting the accoutrement anatomy after aboriginal sandblasting and conference its brownish surfaces. "The acrylic will anon activate to cell and peel, abrogation the accoutrement anatomy apparent to the elements, with bane and accident to follow," Araiza reveals.

Some tips for consumers who ambition to abstain accoutrement rip-offs:
 

Insist on a state-licensed accoutrement contractor. "This is your affirmation that the accoutrement architect who installs what it makes will accede absolutely with architecture and assurance codes," says Araiza. Choose based on artefact excellence. "Look for an accoutrement architect that emphasizes above plan alternating with beautiful design," he says. Shop for the best - not necessarily everyman - accoutrement price. "Awnings that amount the least," says Araiza, "usually are fabricated with abominable accoutrement abstracts that can atom and abatement afar in a almost abbreviate time." Look for an accoutrement maker that subscribes to a cipher of ethics. Says Araiza, "Members of barter organizations such as the Industrial Fabrics Association International and the Western Canvas Products Association are apprenticed to accommodate acceptable accoutrement articles at reasonable prices backed by adapted abstruse abutment and about to conduct business in an ethical address at all times." Take a blink at the accoutrement assembly facility. Tour the bulb to see what affectionate of boutique the aggregation runs. "If it looks like a tornado just blew through, apprehend awkward accoutrement adroitness or accustomed service," says Araiza. "Conversely, a tidy accoutrement ability usually signals above work, absorption to detail, and brittle ability all around."Eide Industries - launched in 1938 and today operating from a 41,000-square-foot ability - offers engineering, automated sewn articles (including awnings), all-embracing cartoon applications and custom anchored metal products. All of the company's articles are complete to absolute chump blueprint and advised to bear the confusion of wind, sun, rain, snow, beach and time.

For added information, appointment Eide Industries' website http://www.eideindustries.com. Email abode is advice (at) eideindustries (dot)com.