Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2012 | Page 159

BUSINESS

K. Coghlan
can tackle
all tasks
No job is too big or too small for K. Coghlan

Kevin formed the company some 16 years

plant lorries. And all K. Coghlan equipment

Plant Hire and Transport, and as a result

ago, and now has a work force of around 40.

comes with its own fully qualified and highly

the Calbourne-based company has built

There are not too many places where you

experienced operatives.

a glowing reputation for efficient and high

travel on the Island without spotting one of

standard workmanship right across the

their distinctive green lorries with the yellow

a 24-hour call-out service seven days a week,

Island.

lettering, and the business has now also

and are able to supply portable offices in 15ft

expanded to the mainland.

to 20 ft units to their customers. Members of

It does not really matter whether it is
demolition, site clearance, muck-away and

The company can offer a highly impressive

K. Coghlan Plant Hire and Transport operate

Construction Line, CPA and CITB, they also

plant hire service, or even sea defence, pipe

range of machinery including 360 degree

have fully qualified HGV and heavy plant

lines, ground work or civil engineering, Kevin

excavators from one ton to 22 tons; 180

fitters with fully equipped mobile workshops.

Coghlan and his team have proved time and

degree diggers, bulldozers, dumpers, small

again they are up to the task.

plant, Hiab and tipper-lorries and flat-bed

K. Coghlan Plant and Transport Ltd, Pound Cottage, Pound Lane, Calbourne, Newport PO30 4JX Tel: [phone]

www.kevincoghlan.co.uk

Ceramic Transformations at the double!
subsequently

tops and add units to fit in with existing ones,

sides of the

before eventually progressing to replacing

company and has

whole kitchens.”

built a reputation

resurfacing service for chipped baths. But

workmanship across

just as the kitchen side of their business

the Island.

has grown, so has the bathroom side of the

Steve, who runs

initially concentrated solely of resurfacing
baths.
But Steve soon began to expand his
business, finding a niche in the market
for replacing kitchen unit doors. He has

business.
It means they are able to refurbish or

with wife Sarah

replace whole bathrooms, including tiling

and experience

or panel boards, depending on customers’

fitter Clive Knight,

needs, and install showers, steam rooms and

explained: “As well

underfloor heating if required.

as resurfacing

Transformations business 18 years ago he

Ceramic Transformations still offer a

for high quality

the company

baths we found that

When Steve Keyzor began his Ceramic

“We then moved on to replace kitchen work

developed both

Steve added: “We are finding ‘Iostone’
kitchen work surfaces are becoming very

many kitchen unit companies changed the

popular and the beauty of them is that if they

sizes of doors every few years, which made

become damaged in any way, marks can be

replacements very difficult. But we managed

repaired, and the work top is about two-thirds

to find a company that makes any size doors,

the price of a granite one.”

and that has enabled us to replace doors,
including new hinges and handles.

Ceramic Transformations offer an Islandwide
surface with free quotations.

Ceramic Transformations Tel: [phone] or 07967 803258

www.visitislandlife.com

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