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Team on 23 July 2008
Fascias 4 Trade gets GAP support
Leading home improvement stockist GAP is supporting Fascias 4 Trade, which offers window and door companies roofline installation services.
If you're asked by a homeowner to fit or replace roofline and you don't have the staff or the skills to do it, you can sub-contract the work to Fascias 4 Trade The service means that window companies don't have to invest in specialist roofline equipment and training for staff
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Fascias 4 Trade operates from unsigned vans so when they arrive at site homeowners are not aware that the work has been sub-contracted out.
The company also passes on any leads it gets from a particular project back to the company it is working for.
John Horrocks, who worked as an Area Sales Manager at GAP for eight years, set up Manchester-based Fascias 4 Trade with his brother Gareth and wife Val after he left in October 2007.
GAP is supporting his venture by supplying the company with top quality products.
Fascias 4 Trade has grown quickly with four fitting teams serving the North West.
John says: "I need a supplier I can rely on".
"When I worked for GAP I told customers what a great company it was".
"But now the shoe is on the other foot".
"GAP offers an excellent service, product range and marketing support".
"But above all it's the people who make the difference".
"If I have a query there's always somebody there to help".
As a specialist roofline installation company, Fascias 4 Trade will be enrolling several of its fitters on GAP's NVQ in Special Installation of Roofline to bring them up to speed, to work alongside a time served joiner on each fitting team.
John says: "It's important that we complete projects to the highest standards".
"Gaining the qualification will prove to homeowners we can do the work professionally".
GAP's Joint Managing Director Simon Bird says: "We support all our customers and it's great to see John doing so well, building a successful business.".
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