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After some delay, we are pleased to announce the forthcoming opening of our new Birmingham depot. Conveniently situated on the A38, Kingsbury Road in Erdington, only 3 minutes from junction 6 of the M6, it is ideally located to service the Birmingham and surrounding areas. Jamie Hearn who currently manages our Iver branch will be running the new depot with the assistance of Peter Rees who has re ... more
For the second year running, facelift exhibited at SED in Milton Keynes. This year's stand exhibited a complete range of equipment from Bronto, Niftylift, Moog, Denka, Upright and at centre stage the Aichi 14. The directors and sales staff wish to thank Mrs. Chatterton, for kindly once again lending her Smart car to demonstrate the Aichi's capabilities. ... more
Happy New Year to all our customers, from all at Facelift. ... more
London based arts group Owls Anomalous Arts Collective became one of the first companies to benefit from Facelift?s new Nifty X-Trax 12 when they approached the company to solve the problem of access to a tree in the centre of a north London Park. The Oaac needed to work in the middle of a grassed area to enable them to carve an intricate sculpture from the tree. ?When the Oaac contacted us, Face ... more
Facelift have recently been called in to help rally the nation behind the England football team; Madame Tussauds contacted the specialist access company to help with a publicity stunt aimed at the heart of every England fan. A Bronto 440X, from Facelift¹s operated high reach access division, with its outreach of 29m proved to be the ideal machine to enable the Taussauds staff to reach over the pa ... more
Facelift, the independent access hire specialist, have announced that their award winning stand at this years SED in Milton Keynes was a resounding success. After an absence of four years as a stand holder at the show managing director Gordon Leicester wanted something special. ?We decided on a theme for the stand rather than the usual ?show room? style display favoured by other exhibitors, plus ... more
Facelift, the UK?s premier independent specialist access hire company have recently been called in to help with a task of a nautical nature ? repairs to the Sail Training Association?s newest tall ship, the Prince William. Founded in 1956, the STA have taken over 70,000 people on board to experience life on a tall ship and the work as part of the crew on voyages that last for a few days in the No ... more
UK rental company, Facelift Access Hire, recently supplied two of its Bronto truck mounted platforms to decorate a 33 metre Giant Redwood tree with Christmas lights at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex. The 62 metre and 44 metre platforms from the company?s Operated High Reach range, offering outreaches of 37 metres and 29 metres respectively, enabled electrical contractors to access the entire heigh ... more
Cleaning contractors at GlaxoSmithKline?s global headquarters building in Brentford called on hire firm Facelift to solve internal access problems. The firm had to clean a five storey atrium but only had access through standard doorways. In addition the machinery had to work on low load-bearing York stone flooring. Facelift supplied a 29m Spider TS29 and 22m Denka DL22N for the contract. Both mach ... more
There has been a cathedral in Lichfield for over 1300 years. The present day cathedral dates from around 1800 and attributes it?s appearance to Sir Gilbert Scott who tried to restore the building to its pre Civil War glory. Unfortunately in doing so he made it one of the hardest buildings in England to maintain. Thankfully, Facelift Access Hire has recently invested in a new mechanical access p ... more
