Having posted a random photo of a scaffolding lorry further up this thread the other day - vehicle reg L777RAD - I was somewhat spooked to see this scaffolding lorry outside my client’s City office at lunch - vehicle reg P777RAD.
Same company? Presumably they registered the fleet all at once and got a sequence of plates.
Buying plates which make TRAD , just as Coventry have all theirs as COV
Pimlico Plumbers are the masters at this, though. The fact that it’s an area ripe for schoolboy humour obviously helps!
http://www.pimlicoplumbers.com/about-us/corporate-identity/number-plates
Noticed recently that a lot of their plates have reverted back to their legal format. Probably pushed their luck too far now.
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Having had a year of horrible stress from Central London Lofts, during which we’ve found a series of other pissed off clients, I have no problem with naming them on this thread. Good luck making any claim against them.
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Lived in se23 since 2011. Active on mayow park and Blythe hill and se23 mums fb groups if anyone wants to check.
Regarding my car, the situation has now been settled, and in good time.
Central London Lofts were very responsive and sincere, and we are not out of pocket. In fact, along with a generous settlement we received a personal visit from Barry, a manager at CLL, hand delivering wine and flowers and an apology (even though at this stage it was not clear that CLL were directly to blame for the accident).
When we first saw him, on the day of the incident, Barry was genuinely upset and affected by what had happened - he clearly cares about the safety of his builders, and he was quick to attend the scene and deal with the aftermath. And as I mentioned above, resolved completely to my satisfaction.
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That’s good news. Very different from our experience of them and the experience of other clients we have been contacted by or who post about them on the regular threads re lofts on the fb group se23mums. But this was a more spectacular and very public failure. If anyone else on here has had a less happy experience with Central London Lofts do contact me via fb or LinkedIn.
Apparently this happened incentral London around Chelsea years ago but this time it was scaffolding on the front of 6 houses in a row and the scaffold was screwed into the front walls as well, which collapsed with the scaffold! Can you imagine if all our houses lost their front wall!
Sorry about the car Chris, poor thing!
The new scaffolding is now up and they were loading more wood onto it yesterday, very nerve-wracking! I can’t walk passed it anymore, I cross the road just in case!
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