The Mad Surveyor

I often get asked who we think our main competitors are. Well, we only rate 4 other companies in the spray foam industry for competence, technical ability, application skill and having the ability to stick around financially to honour any guarantees. On the latter, must companies don’t last more than a few years without undergoing a metamorphosis and reappearing under a new limited liability company name with risk capital of just £2.00. And we wish some would stop using non rated British Standard Class 1 foams. And we wish they would tell the truth…

But maybe the reader can better appreciate the competition we face with the following spoof enquiry we received.

Dr Nana Bannana
Email: Bannanaskin@hotmail.com
Address: 14 Fruit Village
District: South Glos
City or town: Ding Dong
County: Lalala
Post code: Bs37 89k
Telephone: 01454 678991
Mobile: 07791874555
Comments: u smell like poo

Unfortunately our competitor is a little intellectually challenged as we did an IP trace through one of colleagues in the IT industry and he reported that the IP address was issued by ISP provider serving one of our known competitors (the same IP block has been used before). No, we want name and shame them here because it is quite laughable really. But let us just say this company is based in the North West region of England in a city famed for football. And this is not the first time we have received such rubbish from one of our competitors. We have a file of such enquiries and maybe one day we will publish and name and shame.

I say competitors but really I should not adorn them with even that respect, who would really want to do business with a bunch of school kids masquerading as a spray foam company?  To be a valued competitor you would think they would tackle the following: honouring guarantees, do the job right first time, using the right foam, telling the truth to customers, and lastly showing respect to other competitors who do it all so much better.

And who has the time to make spoof enquiries if you are running a successful spray foam company? Our competitors apparently.