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“Planting Your Garden” a new service for garden owners.

We all know the cost of re-landscaping your garden can run into tens of thousands of pounds. So what is the alternative if you want to improve your garden and the quality of your life without spending a fortune?

The answer is to try Waterwell’s new “Planting Your Garden” service.  

Waterwell has always focused on providing new services to make life easier for our customers and “Planting Your Garden” is no different. This is your chance to refresh and revitalise your garden for the summer with new plants. If money is tight, it is madness to spend fortunes on paving, walls and terraces when you can focus your money on replanting your borders and beds and laying a new lawn. New plants will provide an instant “hit”; colour, scent, flowers and year round interest - get the planting and lawn right and your garden will always look great.

The process couldn’t be simpler; choose which borders and beds you would like to refresh and identify the aspect of each border (north, south, east or west). Waterwell will then come in, remove existing unwanted plants, improve the soil and plant up your new borders and beds. Using a purpose-designed mixture of shrubs, perennials and climbers, you will have year-round interest with plants complementing one another with colour, form and texture which can then be set off by a new lawn, if required.

For more information email sarah@waterwell.co.uk or tom@waterwell.co.uk or if you prefer call the office on 020 8742 8855.

Waterwell’s No-Nonsense Guarantee

At Waterwell we recognise that the economy is tight and that most people have sensibly got a close eye on their budgets and their costs. You need to be sure that when you make an investment in your property you are getting value for money and the support of a well run company. With that in mind, we want to make you an offer you cannot refuse. We are so confident of our ability to install an irrigation system in your garden better that any other company and we are even more confident that you will be delighted with it and the effect that it has on your garden that we are happy to offer you...

The Waterwell, 100%, Money Back Guarantee

If, once your irrigation system has been installed, you are unhappy with it in any way then call us within 30 days. Then, if we can cannot solve the issue we will come and remove it and refund 100% of your money - no quibbles, no hassles, no embarrassment - this is a genuine, total-confidence, no-risk guarantee.

Why are we doing this? Well, because we have led the garden irrigation and lighting market for 20 years and we have over 600 clients with maintenance contracts we are pretty certain that we are going to make you a happy customer; your garden will thrive, your new plants will get off to the best start possible and your lawn will be lush and green. We know how many of our customers are happy with our service and we would like you to be too.

Time to celebrate!

Sarah Shepherd had been with Waterwell for five whole years. You may know Sarah as an Estimator and will probably have met her if we have done some work for you. Her enthusiasm and drive can always be relied upon and she is a credit to herself and the business. In her five years at Waterwell Sarah has been a central cog in helping to push the business forward but has still found time in her personal life to buy and renovate a flat, get married and have a baby; the delightful Scarlett.

Sarah currently works for three days per week at Waterwell (Tuesday, Thursday & Friday) and can be contacted by email at sarah@waterwell.co.uk

Key appointment at Waterwell

We are pleased to announce that Chris Newcombe-Bond has been appointed to the role of Operations Manager at Waterwell. Chris (26) who hails from Durban, SA, joined Waterwell in November and has quickly made an impact upon the business. Chris has a solid background in irrigation and landscaping, having run his own business before coming to the UK. With his experience, judgement and sense of humour, Chris  is ideally suited to the crucial role of Operations Manager in which he has responsibility for Waterwell’s commercial activity. Chris spends his down time enjoying mountain biking and socialising and will surely be an asset to the business.

You can contact Chris by email at chris@waterwell.co.uk

Waterwell is lit by the glow of gold

Waterwell successfully lit the BUPA sponsored garden at this years 2008 Chelsea Flower Show. The show garden, designed by Cleve West was awarded a coveted Gold Medal plus the garden was voted by the BBC TV’s viewers and show visitors to win the People’s Choice Award.

The focal point of the garden was the stunning concrete “Boule;” a seven foot diameter tactile sphere balanced on the edge of a reflective pool. To illuminate the garden, Waterwell worked in partnership with one of its key suppliers; the Italian lighting manufacturer IGuzzini. The huge “Boule” was intensely lit from one side with concentrated, colour change light to produce a constantly evolving, almost lunar scene. The illumination of the “Boule” with an ever-changing spectrum of colour was the centre piece of the garden at night, bringing it to life and creating drama and excitement for any occasion.

To create this effect Waterwell used a prototype light fitting containing an array of thirty six, colour change, Luxeon LED lamps. To contrast the colour change effect, soft ambient uplighting was used on each of the six Juneberry trees (Amelanchier lamarckii). This gentle, warm light provided the backdrop or “setting” for the illumination of the “Boule”.

The garden is now being dismantled and re-built at one of BUPA’s nursing homes in Battersea, South-west London.

Read the article in the Independent.

Please refer us to your friends

As you know, we are a friendly, local business that relies on the goodwill and loyalty of the relationships that we have with our existing customers, some of which we have been looking after for nearly 20 years. If you are happy with our service, can I ask you to please refer our service to your friends, family and contacts so that we can try to provide them with the service that we give you. For each referral that turns into a job we will then donate £100 to our favourite charity, Wateraid. Their mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education; please take the time to visit their website www.wateraid.org and see the type of work they do. If however, you are not happy with our service then please email me and let me know what the problem is and I will try to resolve it, if I possibly can.

Garden Lighting Maintenance Contracts – at last!

During the summer of 2008, we are proposing to introduce annual Garden Lighting Maintenance Contracts for customers who would like them. Like the Irrigation Maintenance Contracts, an annual fee will provide you with two, timed appointments on days to suit your diary, at which your garden lighting system will be thoroughly serviced and maintained. This will then afford our lighting customers the same peace of mind that our irrigation customers currently enjoy.

Information resource for Waterwell customers

Waterwell has been in business for a long time, since 1989. As a result of that we have seen lots of companies come and go, the good, the bad and the “don’t touch them with a barge pole”. We are constantly in contact with garden designers, architects, developers, landscapers, interior designers, gardeners and all manner of other companies. If you are looking for someone reliable to help you with your property then please feel free to email me at simon@waterwell.co.uk and if I can help in any way, then I will.

Waterwell wins enterprise award

Waterwell is now an award winning company. WestFocus, a collaboration of seven universities, has selected Waterwell as an “Enterprising Business Award Winner”. The award allows Waterwell to work with the universities and other companies over the next twelve months to develop key areas of the business.

Waterwell is expanding

To improve the service that we provide to all our customers, Waterwell has moved to a purpose built business unit in Brentford, West London. This unit will act as the central hub for all the administration & marketing needs of the business as well as providing a base for the South West London & North West London teams of engineers.

In addition to this, Waterwell is developing two smaller “satellite units” based in North East London & South East London, enabling Waterwell to cover the whole of London & the Home Counties more efficiently. This will improve the service that we provide and will minimise the ever increasing cost of travel time allowing us to pass on the savings to our clients by reducing the costs of having an irrigation and/or lighting system installed.