While we were telling you about our new intake of trainee Fine Finishers in last week’s blog, our sales team were working flat out with the phone lines ringing virtually non-stop as new and existing clients called in needing our specialist...

Down the years, many man made objects have been referred to as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ because of their size or majestic appearance – the Taj Mahal, Sydney’s Opera House and, in its time, even the Crystal Palace used for the Great Exhibition of the Victorian era.

The bank holiday weekend saw your blogger and other members of Plastic Surgeon’s workforce get together at the Cromwell Arms – where all of the Fine Finishers stay when they’re training at our nearby headquarters – for an Eighties theme night. The landlord had hired a tribute band which not only hammered...

The first really good weather of the summer brought the inevitable unveiling of white limbs and bad taste T-shirts; accompanied by the sound of people scraping the rust and food remains off their barbeques as they prepared to burn another batch of burgers.

Time was when ‘tag’ was a harmless playground game which guaranteed kids got plenty of exercise, with the only possible downside being the odd grazed knee. Since the eighties of course when the graffiti culture crossed the Atlantic, tag has been the term used for the symbol each perpetrator uses to identify...

Last week’s election not only brought a ‘hung’ Parliament, but the even stranger situation for the UK of people being denied the chance to cast their votes because polling stations could not cope with the numbers. And one of the reasons given by officials for this regrettable situation was that only one person can sit and tick...

With all the news coverage – and chaos – linked to the volcanic dust from Iceland, we thought it was an ideal time, at Plastic Surgeon, to consider the subject in relation to our business and processes….. for it is inevitable that the very nature of our work stirs up a little dust itself.

The phones were ringing almost non-stop here on Friday at the Plastic Surgeon, with both new and existing clients wanting the services of our Fine Finishers. But it was only as business was finishing for the day that our sales team realised it had been a busier day than any other, and that a landmark had been reached.

As a specialist in the repair of building components, Plastic Surgeon and its Fine Finishers all too frequently come across the damage caused to high quality products due to the everyday passage of personnel and equipment around construction sites as programmes progress: effectively nullifying all the effort...

24housing has launched its Retrofit Best Practise Campaign and Award 2010 and, as is traditionally the case, it is the social housing sector that will be leading the movement to tackle the eco-refurbishment of old homes. The rest of us will hopefully respond with some innovative, cost-effective and planet-saving projects across the UK.