It’s official: cold is bad for you…

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It’s official: cold is bad for you… Act now – stop your gaps – stay well and give less to the big 6 (soon to be 7) energy companies

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Sander, sandpaper, tin of varnish, brush, now what else do I need?

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A caller, who had been recommended to us by Ronseal, asked about the connection. Ronseal is the UK’s leading brand of wood treatment whose products do ‘what it says on the tin’. We approached them some years ago to ask if they would be interested in distributing StopGap. Our reasoning was that, early on in […]

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Holiday Bonus – 25% extra free

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In their enthusiasm for stopping draughty gaps, our factory staff have accidentally produced a short run of brown rolls of 50metre length instead of the standard 40 metres. We are offering these at no extra cost over the Easter – Royal Wedding holiday period. Simply order the number of 40m rolls you require and we […]

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They are almost perfectly reliable. But only almost perfect. Or, what's it like when your website stops working?

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You can find some stunning figures for the reliability of the equipment employed to host websites. This can fill one with awe and wonder at the performance of modern technology. That’s great until the day your website stops working. That’s a shock. What would be the high street equivalent? You arrive to open the shop […]

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We are sorry

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The equipment which stores this website and enables anyone, anywhere, with internet access to visit, broke down early on Sunday morning. While the rest of us were waking to dippy eggs and perhaps looking forward to Easter Sunday lunch with friends or family, engineers were beavering away to replace the failed components. This task took until late on Sunday night […]

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Royal Connections

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The press build up to the imminent marriage of William and Kate brought to mind StopGap’s royal connections. A few years ago we sent a quantity of StopGap to Buckingham Palace. The name on the order was not Windsor and it could be that it was bought by a member of staff. On the other […]

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Money off…

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Save money with our discount offer of £2 per roll on five 40m rolls or more. It’s OK to mix colours which means you can choose brown for the floor and neutral to seal your skirting boards. Just order the numbers of rolls you want in each colour and we do the rest.

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Welcome

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Welcome to the new website, the result of many hours of unstinting labour by Marc Heatley Design. StopGap will be celebrating its 7th birthday in July and this is the sixth incarnation of the website, although Version 5 never made it to the World Wide Web as events were moving too fast at the time. […]

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