SURGE IN SALES BOOSTS BUSINESS AT CDI

A substantial New Year surge in business for mild steel hot-dipped galvanised estate gates and higher volumes of fencing orders in 2021 – coinciding with the anticipated end of the Covid-19 pandemic – has led Cotswold Decorative Ironworkers to increase stocks to unprecedented levels. This will speed up deliveries to destinations as far afield as The Highlands of Scotland.

Managing Director Hughie Powell speaking from the firm’s Stourton headquarters near Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, commented: “We’re now keeping five to six hundred gates in stock ranging from three-foot to twelvefoot in flat-bar and round bar style. It all started eleven years ago when someone showed us a classic 19th century gate sourced through an architectural salvage contact.

“We had a hunch the design would be a winner and copied it. Slowly but surely, it’s become so popular we’re now producing them in minimum batches of twenty at a time.

“We’re jigged up to produce them in large quantities to meet the market demand while keeping the price down. We believe CDI is the best-priced producer of original style gates in the country. The small amount of riveting means the modern adaptations are more solid because they’re discreetly welded and they don’t ‘drop’ like their Victorian predecessors.

“We’ve designed an entire range of cast iron finials for their posts from 60 mm for a 900 mm gate, and 76 mm, 110 mm for larger gates and the 140 mm post that’s top of the range.

“I believe we’re the only company producing these in two different styles; one’s very popular with a ball cast onto the top and the other, called the National Trust, which is simpler dome top. Both of these are our take on traditional styles.

“We’ve also developed and keep in stock larger classic looking entrance gates, our Deer Park or Malvern Styles. Both take the themes of our Estate Gates, and take them to the next level in terms of detail, decorative elements and heaviness of metal. The larger Deer Park gates are ideal as a statement entrance whereas the Malvern can be used on a smaller estate and are less ostentatious whilst remaining classical,” added Hughie.

www.cd-ironworkers.co.uk