We have a lot of products. Industrial shutters, commercial shutters, domestic shutters, fire-rated shutters, garage doors, security gates, strip curtains. When people call us for the first time, it can feel a bit overwhelming trying to work out what they actually need.   So over these two articles, we are going to take a proper…

In part one we went through the things to check on your shutter after winter. If you have not read it, it is worth going back to have a look. In this second part we want to talk about what summer itself actually does to roller shutters, because it is not all rosy just because…

We are going to be honest with you. Most businesses do not think about their roller shutters until something goes wrong. The shutter opens, the shutter closes, job done. It is only when the motor starts grinding at half seven on a Monday morning or the curtain jams halfway up that anyone picks up the…

Fire safety gets a lot of attention in the UK, and rightly so. Sprinklers, extinguishers, emergency lighting, fire doors. Most building owners have at least thought about these. But fire shutters? They tend to get overlooked, and that is a bit of a shame because in certain buildings they are genuinely one of the most…

Most people picture the same thing when they think of roller shutters. A shop front on a high street, maybe a garage door or the entrance to an industrial unit. And yes, those are the bread and butter of what we do. But over the years we have been called out to some locations that…

Scotland’s brilliant. The scenery’s dramatic, the weather keeps you on your toes, and the people are genuinely sound. We’ve been working up there for years now and honestly, it’s become a massive part of our business. When we first started taking Scottish jobs, we weren’t entirely sure how it’d go. Long drives, unpredictable weather, different…

Fire shutters don’t get much attention. Nobody walks into a building admiring them. Most people don’t even notice they’re there. But get them wrong and people can die. It’s that serious. The difference between the right fire shutters and inadequate ones might not show up until there’s an actual fire. By then, obviously, it’s too…

Fire shutters are one of those things that sit there doing absolutely nothing for years on end. Most people walk past them every day without giving them a second thought. But when there’s a fire, they’re the difference between a contained incident and a building burning down. If you own or manage a commercial building,…

Winter’s coming, and if you run a business with roller shutters, now’s the time to make sure they’re up to the job. We’ve been installing and maintaining shutters for years, and trust me, the number of emergency callouts we get in January could be cut in half if people just did a bit of prep…

British Winter isn’t dramatic. We don’t get the sort of weather that makes international news, what we get is months of cold, damp misery that seeps into absolutely everything. Including your commercial shutters. The 7am Phone Call It always starts the same way, your shutters have been a bit stiff lately, nothing major, just taking…