On Oct 13, 8:51*pm, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Steve Walker wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:39:45 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:

pete wrote:
SNIP

Well, I wouldn't expect a full postal address. Though the name of
the town would be nice - that way you can at least assure yourself
that the outfit
is local (so you can look it up in the yellow pages, etc.).

Hence the 'Medway' bit. *I did come up with all sorts of clever
names, but ended up thinking it was important to have the local
connection as you say.

Although funnily enough there was a Medway Builders' van in Urmston,
Manchester, on Monday.

Bloody sat nav's :-)

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Cold calls. Only once - positive experience.
Positive fellow too. And fairly easy in this society to quickly check
up on someone!
Chances are they will have a cousin who knows one of the teachers at
the local school who is married to that lady down the street who
occasionally helps you out at the local committee meetings etc. etc.
Two phone calls and you probably have their life history!
Anyway: This chap turned up one day; I was at work.
This is story wife told me.
The guy had been laid off; no job.
Looking around for some way to be employed realised he had some sheet
metal skills.
And he noted there were many houses with water wells which were either
still in use or had been replaced by municipal water wells; many of
the wells had poor, sloppy coverings, deteriorated covers or
nondescript 'well house' coverings.
Ours, like many others, had an untidy plywood cover; not fully safe
either!
He offered and custom made (mainly conical) sheet metal covers. We
still have ours; it takes the same paint as the house and is low and
tidy with the surrounding concrete square surrounding head of the
well. price was fair, but not too low (after all he had two on site
trips!) and the workmanship was good.
We bought and wished him well (Oh; gee! That was an unintended
pun ........ Sorry about that)! This was all some 30 years ago.
These days, around this area one often sees such covers (on dug/
shallow wells) and each time remembers that hard working and
entrepreneurial person. Hope he did OK?
From: Eastern Canada.