After months of intense development, the new BHL website is now ready for testing – before we go live proper. After listening to our customers concerns we took the decision to build a brand new, bespoke site to improve the online experience for our growing customer base. For example, our customers were telling us that they wanted more  information and articles about products and systems, we listened and the new site is crammed full of data. We also wanted to address the problem of the site speed which was increasingly becoming an issue due to the growing volume of traffic. 

The new website has many new innovative features which we hope will improve the overall shopping experience. We have made the site more interactive - products are now linked to relevant videos and articles including blog posts and news feeds. And customers can now share their experiences with others by rating and reviewing products. Customers can also Follow Us using various social media including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube 

We have significantly increased our product range. Our site now has almost 100,000 products and now features a new Spares section as well as bigger and improved areas such as Drainage and Eco. Our brands section has also grown and we now feature an enviable range of leading manufacturers.

The new site has been designed to be fast, simple and secure and of course usability is really important to us. There is a lot of work for us to do and we are really excited for the future. We have some great features we want to launch for phase 2 - hopefully before Christmas. 

Inevitably we will experience a few teething issuses but overall we are confident and excited about the future. Please feel free to offer us your feedback or suggestions.

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