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I was in partnership in a carpet business with a man of the church who lived in Cheddar for a while. I believe you are retired from the same game.
Must be getting on for 20 years ago but think I’ve still got an old business card.
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I did tell you I was in the carpet game a few years ago, Nathan
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The phone numbers aren’t in use now…
My dad had a carpet fitting business in Romsey Hampshire, Tank.
Worked mainly for ourselves but also Marks And Spencer (for their customers) and also through the old Wilton Weavers Shop and then Wilton Carpet Factory, when the management took over from Wilton Royal. Did a lot of top of the range stuff, custom made and bordered carpet.Value Is Everything“Quality carpets”, brings back memories.
Every carpet business described their carpets as that, no matter what standard they were; Even foam backed!
Hope you didn’t offer “free fitting” too? With the proviso of as long as everything was bought from you. No fitter fitted for free. Remember another free fitting company we did work for charging £4 a sq yard for paperfelt – something which trade price was pennies (newspapers did the same job) so as to pay us. Last job we did for them.Value Is Everything- Total Posts 2553
We never dealt in top-quality woven carpets like that. A lot of our customers were from Claude’s friend who had a property letting business- so it was mainly cheap and cheerful stuff and much easier to fit. Did some fitting myself and taught Claude (who was a vicar) to do a bit as well.
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Ginger knows
You beat me to it Nathan, I was going to put a bit on last night about
Tank’s concern about vaccine “passports” “being able to track everyone’s
movements. They would give no more information than is already readily
available to Big BrotherTank if you’re concerned about your movements being tracked you’re pretty
much going to have to sit in a darkened room and switch off everything
electrical. You’ll need to lob your bank cards in the briny for a start.
Then get shot of your mobile phone which not only records every call you
make and receive and can probaly place you with 30 yards of where you are.
It also picks up public wifi when your out, which even if you dont use it,
it can just about place you in the row in the cinema that you’re sitting.Google maps, through your phone, can give you a timeline of everywhere you
have been. You can get a monthly printout showing exactly where you’ve been,
including photos of shops you’ve visited. Vehicle number plate recognition,
facial recognition technology. I could go on and on, but you can rest assured
that the introduction of vaccine “passports” gives them no information that
they can’t already easily gather.Unfortunately it’s the world we live in now, and it’s never going to go
backwards.Whenever the Ford Transit works in Southampton went on strike the number of “carpet fitters” in our area seemed to double.
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They’d be a lot of unhappy customers then, Ginge. Carpet fitting is a skill that not all people can master.
With that news BigG, think I’ll join Tank in his bunker and we can bore ourselves with carpet stories.
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Bigg, I was just chucking some ideas about. Something isn’t right about how Covid has been ramped-up out of proportion IMO
As for myself, I won’t have a supermarket loyalty card – don’t want people to know what brand of loo roll I use and how many pies I eat. None of their damned business!
Although I share some of your wishes to be a private person, Tank… It’s important to note we are not living in China, Russia or North Korea.
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I’m noticing more about supermarket deals being better for clubcard customers – Tesco is getting bad for that and the Co-Op have started to do it now. I will stick to the ones that don’t out of principle
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Ginge, I’m too old to change my ways
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