As part of the ongoing expansion of the company, it was obvious that an expansion of the warehouse and equipment preparation areas were necessary.  It was decided that the most cost effective and efficient way of doing this was to relocate the office space that was currently housed within the main body of the building to another unit and for the warehouse to move into the vacated space.  In order to make better use of existing space, the decision was also taken to remove the dividing walls between the various parts of the warehouse, which was a collection of smaller units that were taken on one-by-one as the company grew.

Before the main warehouse wall could come down, though, the workshop needed to be moved, which was located, at that time, up against the dividing wall in the second warehouse section.  The extra store room at the back to the warehouse was deemed a very practical place to have the new workshop, but in order to make it a pleasant working environment the wall that divided it from the warehouse had to go.  Over the course of a day, Chappie and Dave took it down, brick by brick, very delicately with an enormous hammer.

With the workshop moved, the time had come to bring down the main dividing wall.  Unfortunately, one of the building electricity supplies was located on it, so this was moved into the new workshop.  A couple of radiators were also relocated onto a different wall.

To start with, the demolition was a delicate operation as it was very tall and had some of the building services running through it.  Each brick was carefully removed and the mortar chiselled away.  Once it got down to a level that could be attacked from floor height, everybody wanted a go.  Even the office girls had a go with the hammer!  In the end, though, the majority of the wall was demolished with a less than technical method; we just pushed it!  The only thing that needed to be done after that was to paint the floor.

In the office the carpet was ripped up, the partition walls were removed, the floor was painted and racking was erected.