Flattening ceiling artex - tip

High street optician? Bzzzzt!

Might be worth checking if the specs are insured. A neighbour chipped a lens in his when using an angle grinder, (yes, an angle grinder), on some concrete blocks. When he took the specs to the optician to be repaired, they told him he was insured for this, and didn't charge him anything.

Fitting of frame and relative position of eye/lens is pretty important for single vision and critical for things like varifocals. There is also rather more to eye health than just bunging a pair of glasses in front of them. Many eye diseases are slow onset and progessive, you may well not notice anything until it is too late to do anything effective.

We are a visual animal, don't take risks with your sight.

They likely are covered by insurance too and I'll look that out later, thanks all.

test drive ..You get the cost (£5) refunded off any subsequent order .

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That is an argument for using a high street optician to buy glasses.

That is *not* an argument for using a high street optician to buy glasses. It is an argument for having regular eye tests, but that is a different thing entirely.

I've got varifocals from Glasses Direct. They sent a bloke around to measure where the relative position, took him 5 mins.

Surely if you go to an optician to get your prescription, the eye test would pick up any problems.

The problem is that people forget how long it has been since their last eye test, and if they think they can get a pair of spectacles without a new prescription, they may skip that part of the process for many years.

FOAF only went along to the optician's because a screw had fallen out of the arm of her glasses. When persuaded she /did/ have time to have a test as well as having the screw replaced, they found she had a significant amount of macular degeneration already and was at significant risk of losing most of her sight before she reached 60.

Yes, people should have the right to buy goods and services at the best possible rate, but there is a downside when liberating the market results in people missing out on tests that could detect medical conditions before too much damage is sustained.

But you can (should?) only go so far when protecting people from themselves, surely. Eg, on the glassesdirect site you have to sign a tickbox confirming that your prescription was obtained with the last two years.

David

Not explicitly - what you tick is a box that says you have read and agreed to their 'Terms and Conditions', and one of the 40+ conditions is that the prescription was given within the last 2 years.

Apparently, it is more important to them that we are aware that "2.1. A description of the goods is set out in our catalogue and on our website and any other documents referred to in our catalogue and on our website. Whilst we will attempt to ensure that there are no changes to the goods to be supplied, it is possible that there might be some minor variations to the description and/or specification of the goods which arise by virtue of changes made by the manufacturers of the parts supplied which form part of the goods."

You may be happy to describe it as 'a tickbox confirming that your prescription was obtained within the last 2 years', but I think that if glasses direct were /that/ concerned it would be a separate tickbox.

No, I ordered a pair last month as it happens: immediately below the T&C tickbox is a second tickbox which states:

"Please tick this box to confirm that your prescription was given to you by a registered medical practitioner or a registered optometrist less than two years ago, or if you are 70 years old or over, less than one year ago."

David

Fair enough. I stopped at the first 'accept T&C' tickbox on the 'entering your prescription' page, the follow up question is when you come to complete the sale.

"I've just had a pair of varifocals with transitition and anti-scratch in memory metal frames for just over £100 from

I think Tony Briar first posted here about them.

I walked in with the prescription initially, told them the wife would need to decide on the frames - they just gave me half a dozen memory metal frames to take away for her to pick from.

Good little outfit - I recommend them

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying something like:

Not their fault if you have a weird-shaped head.

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i brought 2 pairs of prescription glasses form

That's nice dear, do they really flatten the artex, or are you just too distracted to notice it anymore?

Probably works by being so far off the prescription that you can't actually focus on the ceiling anymore.

Good-oh; you'll be able to see the boot coming towards your arse, then.