Butler Sheetmetal Ltd

Iron Ore Prices to Soar 65% – Steel Prices to Follow

Posted on 10, Mar

Anybody shocked by this seemingly vicious rise in iron ore prices? Aren’t you glad I showed you how to smelt your own yesterday?

Jasper McDingle and the Unfolding Internet Cable Mystery

Posted on 13, Feb

Butler Sheetmetal Ltd

Ever since moving to my apartment here in Wheeling I’ve had intermittent internet service at best and a downright lousy connection at worst. It doesn’t flitter like a wonky fluorescent tube as much as completely disappear in one solid chunk for most of the day. I wouldn’t care to hazard a guess as to how [...]

Gruelling Growlers

Posted on 23, Jan

Every time I visit the mother-in-law, or she comes to visit me, there’s a conversation about meat pies. It’s not me who starts the conversation either, I’ll have you know. If I’d married some working class heroine from some lovely part of Preston I’d maybe understand it, but my mother-in-law is a fairly well-to-do surgeon’s [...]

Powder Coated Planters Getting Planted

Posted on 9, Jan

If only we knew we were moving in more illustrious circles then we could bang on incessantly about them. Apparently we did some stainless steel tree rings that were to be inspected by Her Majesty not so long back, but nobody deemed it newsworthy enough to tell us what they were for until way after [...]

Where’s Ya Bin? No, Where’s Ya Wiilly Bin?

Posted on 4, Jan

Butler Sheetmetal Ltd

Well it was all a bit too short and a bit too whistle-stop. Also remind me never to be so cheap as to fly in every direction of the compass when you’ve only got a week off. I’m not set out to be a jet setter. I’m not so much still in a different time [...]

Let the Festivities Commence!

Posted on 24, Dec

Butler Sheetmetal Ltd

I won’t stop long seeming it’s Christmas Eve and we’ve all got more exciting and pressing things to do. I’m wondering if I’m the only person floating around excited by being in Nelson for Christmas. Unless, of course, you’re after buying one of the cheapest houses in the coutry, according to a new housing study. [...]

Finding Just the Right Guys for the Job

Posted on 28, Nov

As with many smaller sheet metal companies, there tends to be quite a bit of sub-contracting that goes on. Obviously, the smaller you are the less facilities you have in-house. And the busier you get, the more sub-contracting out you need to do. So, it’s kind of important that you find half decent companies that [...]