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daily you couldn’t take it off them now! Once you get it into their hands and they try it out, I think they can be won over.

“As a boss, you ’ ve also got an obligation to provide PPE to your staff, like steel toecap boots for example The legal responsibility comes back to the owner if a staff member has an accident, so a lot of bosses on construction sites will hopefully encourage their staff to use Grindermate.”

Jim additionally thinks busy builders are likely to appreciate Grindermate as a quick, ready-made solution: “As a builder you just want to get in and get out It’s much easier and faster to just grab Grindermate, rather than waste time which could be spent building and making money Builders want to build quickly and they like new tools when a new tool comes out, all my boys talk about it!”

And compared to heavy brick jigs available from tool manufacturers, Grindermate is aimed at builders on the move being smaller, more portable and more affordable Mark explains: “Some jigs are £200-300 apiece and they’re heavy and lumpy, take up a lot of space and need a lot of setting up We’re in a completely different market to them and tr y to make things simple and cost-effective instead ”

Future outlook

With Grindermate beginning to be taken on by several stockists and resellers, the two pioneers say they have plenty of ideas to take the concept further, with additional features such as dust suppression and developing a version for using up on a roof to cut tiles

Daniel Hopkins, Metex Sales & Marketing Director, concludes: “With so many injuries on site per year, Grindermate provides significant health and safety benefits and whilst it’s got to be commercially viable for Metex, we ’ re really happy to help make sites safer

“ The product is priced to be highly competitive but equally ver y robust and provide the user a tool that will assist with hundreds of on-site brick and block cuts if treated correctly It’s set to become a staple tool in many builder’s vans and available from most well-known merchants and online construction material retailers ” n Use the shortcode www rdr link/mav013 if you are interested in becoming a stockist.