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MARCH 2014 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
www.proinstaller.co.uk
Business Community
Unites To Help Somerset
Residents Fight Floods
Builders’ merchant Buildbase is rallying
the businesses community to donate
urgent flood relief to Somerset residents.
Transported by freight company TXX, around 1,000 environmentally friendly sandbags
have travelled from Jutexpo’s
warehouse near Ipswich to
Buildbase in Yeovil, where
they were filled with sand and
made available to homes in
the surrounding areas.
The builders’ merchant is also
working with suppliers to donate
protective clothing such as chest
waders, 200 high visibility waterproof jackets and 10,000 nitrile
gloves as well as provisions such
as wheelbarrows and cleaning
materials to help local volunteers.
Buildbase branches in Gloucester,
Cheltenham. Radstock. Yeovil and
Malmesbury are all taking part in
the initiative and local residents
will be able to collect sandbags
and supplies from those locations
while stock is available.
Kyle Chesterman, Branch Manager at Buildbase in Yeovil said:
“A number of villages in the area
have been stranded, people need
to get out and the area can only be
accessed by foot. This is a massive undertaking and the whole
community has come together to
help each other out in what is an
incredibly distressing situation.
‘As a local business you are
involved in the local community
at many levels and you can’t just
watch from the sidelines when it’s
in jeopardy’
“As a local business you are
involved in the local community
at many levels and you can’t just
watch from the sidelines when
it’s in jeopardy. We are doing
everything we can, supporting the
currently stretched local authorities. By working with our network
of suppliers and customers were
in a