The shop was a good base to expand from and he was able to man the shop with help from his wife Nancy when he was out on callouts. Over a period of 7 years the business increased in both equipment and stock requirements and the small shop became filled to capacity. We wanted to stock more but couldn’t find a space for it and so began looking for new premises. The process of our search took over a year as we would inspect a property, figure how we may utilise the space, get it surveyed and then negotiate the pricing for it, we considered several properties and then learned that Choice Decorators were going to be closing down in May 2016. We met with the shopkeepers and got measurements of the shop and realised this would suit our needs perfectly. We had only until the start of June 2016 to leave the old premises and move into the new shop at 92 East High Street Forfar. There is a timelapsed video below showing the majority of the works to get the shop into a usable state for us. We added a new wall and made a store in the rear, removed the carpet tiles and restored the floorboards, gave it a paint, added high efficiency LED Lighting, painted and laid some laminate where there wasn’t nice original flooring.
