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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:22 pm
by rimexboy
Very nice great how you buy the rock in and saw it, looks very interesting, great pics
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:42 am
by London Stone Paving
gonchy wrote:was down your slough depot over the weekend to pick up some stone and must say they was very helpful
Thats good to hear gonchy, thanks for the feedback.
Simon, we bought the block saw to cut out our own Yorkstone. We were finding that the lead times from the Yorkshire quarries were unreliable and it was causing us lots of headaches. We put up with it for a couple of years and then decided to invest in the wire saw. It works out a little cheaper for us to cut our own blocks but the main benefit to us is having the control over the supply. I took a couple of shots of the wire saw last week when it was really cold.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:40 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
Any luck Sean???
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:58 pm
by rimexboy
wow that saw looks like an amazing bit of kit , and keeping it in house you have full control over lead times, is that water or ice coming of it , its hard to say for sure from here ..
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:39 pm
by London Stone Paving
its ice, was bloody cold that day
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:59 pm
by seanandruby
ilovesettsonmondays wrote:Any luck Sean???
did'nt have a lot of time to look, so i travelled it. going to travel it back and forth till i find somewhere, 1 1/2 hours each way, not to bad. theres a rough place 5 mins from the job i'm waiting for a vacancy, it'll probably be the next bloke hospitalised, or banged up who goes 
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:29 am
by cookiewales
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:46 am
by ilovesettsonmondays
Try round Orpington chislehurst nicer area only 20 mins away
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:48 am
by ilovesettsonmondays
I know there's rooms in grays every week in paper 60 a week don't know what there like you are half hour away max
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:57 am
by London Stone Paving
A couple of years ago we launched a trade sample pack. It went down really well but the cardboard box wasnt strong enough to hold the heavy stone samples. Its taken a while to sort out but we have just launched the new and improved version.
It comes in a hard plastic briefcase style box with a foam insert to hold all the samples safely. All the samples have got a detailed label on the back. There is also a QR code on the back of each stone sample which allows you to quickly re-order a sample by scanning the code with a smart phone.
Its been a hell of a journey to get this made as we have had to test out different boxes and different foam inserts and also to sourve them at a reasonable price. In the end we had to source the boxes from Germany and the foam was sourced from the uk
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz65/StevenWalley/IMG_0747.jpg
Some reason cant get photo to show up in the post, photo bucket seems to have changed the rules
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:45 pm
by Carberry
London Stone Paving wrote:A couple of years ago we launched a trade sample pack. It went down really well but the cardboard box wasnt strong enough to hold the heavy stone samples. Its taken a while to sort out but we have just launched the new and improved version.
It comes in a hard plastic briefcase style box with a foam insert to hold all the samples safely. All the samples have got a detailed label on the back. There is also a QR code on the back of each stone sample which allows you to quickly re-order a sample by scanning the code with a smart phone.
Its been a hell of a journey to get this made as we have had to test out different boxes and different foam inserts and also to sourve them at a reasonable price. In the end we had to source the boxes from Germany and the foam was sourced from the uk
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz65/StevenWalley/IMG_0747.jpg
Some reason cant get photo to show up in the post, photo bucket seems to have changed the rules
Glad that's sorted. Every potential client i have been to has loved the sample box but that cardboard box was useless and broke pretty quickly. I ended up carrying the samples about in my hardhat :laugh:
I'll make sure I bug you for one when I put in my first order for the year.
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I see from your album you have got a new piece of heavy machinery Steve...
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:03 pm
by GB_Groundworks
They look the mutts nuts top work
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:56 pm
by lutonlagerlout
steve go to settings on photie bucket and remove the "link back to album" tag
it happened to me and roger so i guess they have "improved" things ???
nice box mate
LLL
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:30 pm
by ambient
like the sample pack steve very professional
hope to do some business with you this year
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:54 pm
by lutonlagerlout
I mentioned steve to a potential client yesterday
I went there tonight and lo and behold he had the london stone catalogue and 2 samples in his hands
very professional looking catalogue steve
LLL
you need a bit of comfort now sean i always google self catering with the post code of where the work is .lots of 1bed s out their try owners direct they are happy to do a deal and they still have weekend let yak i da