I am not sure who is more pleased. Me for receiving such a great email or the clients?
To be trusted to work on a pond that to date has taken 18 months of very hard work is the real compliment.
Matt, a very happy owner of GRP!
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Saturday, 6 August 2011
Thoroughly delighted!
Todays clients kindly took the trouble to send a very warming email.
I am not sure who is more pleased. Me for receiving such a great email or the clients?
To be trusted to work on a pond that to date has taken 18 months of very hard work is the real compliment.
Matt, a very happy owner of GRP!
I am not sure who is more pleased. Me for receiving such a great email or the clients?
To be trusted to work on a pond that to date has taken 18 months of very hard work is the real compliment.
Matt, a very happy owner of GRP!
Monday, 25 July 2011
Important announcement. New email address.
Our email address has changed to grpspecialists@gmail.com
The old hotmail address will be shut down at the end of July 2011.
The website has been updated with this new gmail address.
The old hotmail address will be shut down at the end of July 2011.
The website has been updated with this new gmail address.
Friday, 22 July 2011
Japan Competition winner.
Mr Shaw of Castleford, West Yorkshire won GRP's 'Trip to Japan' competition earlier this year.
Jim rang me personally to say how over the moon he was to have won the competition that was hosted exclusively by the Yorkshire Koi Society and it was planned for April 2011 but due to the March tsunami wreaking havoc in Japan it was decided that we and Darren from Absolute Koi who is his guide for the trip ought to postpone until a more suitable time.
Hopefully things will have settled down in Japan so Jim can finally look forward to and I quote him here "The trip of a lifetime.......Japan, the place I only ever dream of going to as a koi enthusiast but I actually won!"
Jim's win was posted on the forum back in February and I believe he'll be posting pictures of his trip on the forum from Japan so definitely one to watch out for in October.
Well done again Jim Shaw. By all accounts you are a most worthy winner of the competition.
GRP Fixed it for Jim :)
Jim rang me personally to say how over the moon he was to have won the competition that was hosted exclusively by the Yorkshire Koi Society and it was planned for April 2011 but due to the March tsunami wreaking havoc in Japan it was decided that we and Darren from Absolute Koi who is his guide for the trip ought to postpone until a more suitable time.
Hopefully things will have settled down in Japan so Jim can finally look forward to and I quote him here "The trip of a lifetime.......Japan, the place I only ever dream of going to as a koi enthusiast but I actually won!"
Jim's win was posted on the forum back in February and I believe he'll be posting pictures of his trip on the forum from Japan so definitely one to watch out for in October.
Well done again Jim Shaw. By all accounts you are a most worthy winner of the competition.
GRP Fixed it for Jim :)
Monday, 18 July 2011
Being talked about :)
One of our new customers asked if this was us when they saw it online so I had to take a look.
Anyone used GRP?
Very satisfying that previous clients say good things about us. Gives me great confidence going into tomorrows job (not that I need it of course) which you can see here.
Daz and Helens pond
There's a header pool attached to the main pond PLUS we'll be glassing Britains youngest koi keeper's pond in the same two days!
Daz got in touch with us way back in March and has kept in touch not just to ask for build advice tips but also to keep us informed of the build progress so we can be there when we are needed rather than have to wait for our diary to clear. We glassed a pond 30 miles away from this job last week for a member of Daz's koi club East Yorkshire Koi Society. (Link on page right.)
I'll add some pics of the job when we get back in a couple of days.
Matt
Update 20/7
It rained.
Then it rained again.
Rained some more.
Rained again very heavily.
It changed to persistent rain.
Rained again.
And again.
And then some.
The cover held up. All three ponds are now foam lined and glassed. A return visit to site tomorrow to inspect the job, sand down and to apply the topcoat will leave the ponds fully waterproof.
The build quality of the pond is very good. A slight exception is on the floor near the drain but I fixed that with the foam.
It rained so heavily that water worked its way through the block work walls and underneath the foam at the end opposite the window. Once this was dealt with I carried on working. At about 4:30 it was time to seal Keiran's pond that I foam lined yesterday.
By the time that was sealed I called it a day. A fresh day tomorrow will see the ponds topcoated in black.
It rained most of the way home too.
Daz and Helen's pond foam lined and glassed.
and Britain's Youngest Koi Keeper's pond :) Also the smallest koi pond we've ever glassed!
I had a fantastic time yet again in Yorkshire and a huge thanks to Helen's hospitality and tea making skills!
Next stop for us is Fleet in Hampshire on Tuesday, a small water feature to work on in Derby Wednesday then on to Warwick on Friday.
Anyone used GRP?
Very satisfying that previous clients say good things about us. Gives me great confidence going into tomorrows job (not that I need it of course) which you can see here.
Daz and Helens pond
There's a header pool attached to the main pond PLUS we'll be glassing Britains youngest koi keeper's pond in the same two days!
Daz got in touch with us way back in March and has kept in touch not just to ask for build advice tips but also to keep us informed of the build progress so we can be there when we are needed rather than have to wait for our diary to clear. We glassed a pond 30 miles away from this job last week for a member of Daz's koi club East Yorkshire Koi Society. (Link on page right.)
I'll add some pics of the job when we get back in a couple of days.
Matt
Update 20/7
It rained.
Then it rained again.
Rained some more.
Rained again very heavily.
It changed to persistent rain.
Rained again.
And again.
And then some.
The cover held up. All three ponds are now foam lined and glassed. A return visit to site tomorrow to inspect the job, sand down and to apply the topcoat will leave the ponds fully waterproof.
It rained so heavily that water worked its way through the block work walls and underneath the foam at the end opposite the window. Once this was dealt with I carried on working. At about 4:30 it was time to seal Keiran's pond that I foam lined yesterday.
By the time that was sealed I called it a day. A fresh day tomorrow will see the ponds topcoated in black.
It rained most of the way home too.
Daz and Helen's pond foam lined and glassed.
and Britain's Youngest Koi Keeper's pond :) Also the smallest koi pond we've ever glassed!
Next stop for us is Fleet in Hampshire on Tuesday, a small water feature to work on in Derby Wednesday then on to Warwick on Friday.
Friday, 10 June 2011
From Devon to Derbyshire.
I had an interesting solo trip to Devon to seal this very small water feature on Tuesday.
A day off to go sea kayaking in Brixham was followed by a two day installation in our home county of Derbyshire on an absolutely brilliant pond.
I visited the site about 4 weeks previously to snag (advise on the prep) the job for the pond constructors. The build quality was so good that there was barely any snagging to do, just a sample of foam left with them so they could configure the 12 LED lights built into the walls was all that was required along with advice and reasons for a weatherproof cover.
Applying the PU foam to the pool was a straightforward affair but carried out in punishing temperatures. This was completed by 2pm and I ruled out starting the grp work due to the excessive heat at that time of day. We attended site early on Friday morning to start the grp proper. By 2.30 and with temperatures at stiffling temperatures the grp work was complete with Lucy installing the majority of the surface tissue application on her own. She has a great eye for this work, real attention being paid to the attention required to achieve the enamel like finish we pride ourselves on. It dawned on me then that Lucy is, as far as I am aware the only female grp laminator in the UK working on ponds!
We took some r&r away from the job allowing daytime temperatures to drop to comfortable levels and went back to site at 5.30pm, greeted with some more hot refreshing tea provided by the pond owners.
A 7.30pm finish left the pond waterproof and in immaculate condition just as the rain started, the cover holding up to perfection.
All in all we had relatively quiet week by our standards and worked on what is possibly one of the best built ponds we've been invited to so far in 2011.
Here are a couple of pictures from the perfectly built pond.
Foam lined and fully glassed, sanded down and ready for the topcoat.
One of the 12 LED light fittings, sealed, masked off to protect the lens and ready to be very carefully flowcoated around!
Here you see the complex shape of the pond. Split level, lights, tangental returns, fillets and a surface skimmer ALL left in a 100% waterproof condition.
The header course of bricks are being fitted tomorrow and I'll pop a couple of pictures of this completed pond in due course.
A day off to go sea kayaking in Brixham was followed by a two day installation in our home county of Derbyshire on an absolutely brilliant pond.
I visited the site about 4 weeks previously to snag (advise on the prep) the job for the pond constructors. The build quality was so good that there was barely any snagging to do, just a sample of foam left with them so they could configure the 12 LED lights built into the walls was all that was required along with advice and reasons for a weatherproof cover.
Applying the PU foam to the pool was a straightforward affair but carried out in punishing temperatures. This was completed by 2pm and I ruled out starting the grp work due to the excessive heat at that time of day. We attended site early on Friday morning to start the grp proper. By 2.30 and with temperatures at stiffling temperatures the grp work was complete with Lucy installing the majority of the surface tissue application on her own. She has a great eye for this work, real attention being paid to the attention required to achieve the enamel like finish we pride ourselves on. It dawned on me then that Lucy is, as far as I am aware the only female grp laminator in the UK working on ponds!
We took some r&r away from the job allowing daytime temperatures to drop to comfortable levels and went back to site at 5.30pm, greeted with some more hot refreshing tea provided by the pond owners.
A 7.30pm finish left the pond waterproof and in immaculate condition just as the rain started, the cover holding up to perfection.
All in all we had relatively quiet week by our standards and worked on what is possibly one of the best built ponds we've been invited to so far in 2011.
Here are a couple of pictures from the perfectly built pond.
The header course of bricks are being fitted tomorrow and I'll pop a couple of pictures of this completed pond in due course.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Friday, 27 May 2011
End of May '11
We had an interesting week with three installations in Norfolk, Leamington Spa and Ludlow, Shropshire.
We were treated to fantastic views during the drive to Ludlow especially over Clee Hill, the views from the top were awesome.
During the Ludlow installation the weather turned quite nasty with high winds and very heavy showers.
Unfortunately the protective covering failed and we had to abandon site in the name of safety.
We decided to make a short video of the Norfolk job and the Ludlow job to show you the difference a good cover makes.
If you have any queries on how to build a suitable cover we'll advise you but hopefully video gives a very clear example. The first cover survived the entire winter of 2010 in fact.
We'll be returning to Ludlow next week to finish off. Not an ideal situation for the client who would like their fish in the pond quickly.
We were treated to fantastic views during the drive to Ludlow especially over Clee Hill, the views from the top were awesome.
During the Ludlow installation the weather turned quite nasty with high winds and very heavy showers.
Unfortunately the protective covering failed and we had to abandon site in the name of safety.
We decided to make a short video of the Norfolk job and the Ludlow job to show you the difference a good cover makes.
We'll be returning to Ludlow next week to finish off. Not an ideal situation for the client who would like their fish in the pond quickly.
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