Since the floods of late 2019 that decimated large swathes of South Yorkshire & badly damaged many residential and business properties, we've gutted, stripped out and renovated our Sheffield base.
The trade counter and fittings area on the ground floor, along with the main warehouse, were badly affected, being under several feet of water. After an extensive period of cleaning up and drying out the long process of renovating started.
Bit by bit the Sheffield team have worked with various contractors and our own maintenance team to complete a full refurbishment, including the upstairs offices, canteen and meeting spaces.
Drying out and clearing up took the longest, although as anyone will know, goods and services have been difficult to come by in the last 18 months, with Covid and Brexit adding to the delays.
But we're happy to report - and no doubt the staff at Sheffield are chuffed too - that their working environment has been given a complete make-over, with the canteen being the final section, fitted out with our Avanti Opus High Gloss Light Grey and Egger Silver Grey Metal Slate worktops.
Our South Yorkshire hub is a vital extension to our Oldham HQ site: not only does it allow us to directly serve a greater portion of trade customers towards the centre of the UK but it also extends our reach for carrier services to our customers in the south.
Well done to our Sheffield staff for their patience, hard work and perseverance over the last couple of years in getting to this point. It's certainly not been easy but they've now have a bright, fresh environment in which to work and relax.
