The Firework Shop » safety http://samuifireworks.com Koh Samui, Thailand. Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:17:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 The last couple of weeks have been hectic… http://samuifireworks.com/koh-samui-fireworks/the-last-couple-of-weeks-have-been-hectic/ http://samuifireworks.com/koh-samui-fireworks/the-last-couple-of-weeks-have-been-hectic/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:50:16 +0000 Mr.b http://samuifireworks.com/koh-samui-fireworks/the-last-couple-of-weeks-have-been-hectic/ The last couple of weeks have been hectic (slight understatement there! lol), and there is little sign of it easing up for the next month or so at least! It’s all good news though – business-wise – so I am absolutely NOT complaining lol.

We were vivited by our old friends (old as in we have known them for a while – as opposed to them being old!) Christian and Melanie from Wupperthal, Germany a week ago. It was so good to see them again, particularly as both of them are firework ‘experts’ in their own right. They run their own firework shop in Wupperthal, so we spent a lot of time swapping stories, and me picking their brains for any information that could help us improve our service and standards of safety. Christian mentioned the cost of remote firing systems in Europe (very expensive), so I put him in touch with a Chinese contact of ours that actually manufacture many of the sytems available in Europe… at around 50% of the cost if bought from them direct! I showed Christian and Melanie some of the systems we use, and their faces lit up… I hope they work out for you guys!

I will upload some pictures soon, as well as a link to their website. I do hope that next time (soon?) we will be able to spend more time together… it is so cool talking to fellow ‘pyro-nuts’, and I am proud to call Chris and Mel our Pyro- brother and sister!

There can be nothing better than the approval of your peers, and when Chris and Mel saw how we set-up and shoot, and the level of safety we bring to all aspects of our work they gave us the ‘thumbs-up’! For our standards of safety and service to be acceptable by our peers – judging us under European standards – then I can feel proud about our work. Thank you to you both… and I hope we meet again very soon. Have a safe trip home guys!!! :) :) :)

Christian & Melanie enjoying Laarn's cooking at our home.

]]> http://samuifireworks.com/koh-samui-fireworks/the-last-couple-of-weeks-have-been-hectic/feed/ 0 The Firework Shop for Safety- Quality – Service http://samuifireworks.com/koh-samui-fireworks/the-firework-shop-for-safety-quality-service/ http://samuifireworks.com/koh-samui-fireworks/the-firework-shop-for-safety-quality-service/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:12:32 +0000 Mr.b http://samuifireworks.com/?p=2526 What a great week it’s been for all of The Firework Shop’s 3 shooting teams! They have been kept busy this week, with a total of 6 shoots… and it’s not finished yet, as we have 3 more bookings over the next 3 days before a ’rest’ of 2 days! Tonight’s shoot was spectacular, with ’Blue Team’ excelling themselves, putting on a fantastic show for a wedding party. It makes me proud to see them work so well as a team… very professional, checking each other’s work, and putting safety first. ’Nu’ – Blue Team leader, had planned the show beautifully, mixing multi-shot repeaters with contrasting mortars of various sizes – ranging from 3 inch diameter up to 10 inch diameter. The clients were so pleased that they gave 5,000 baht as a tip to the shooting team (5 in the team, so a nice 1,000 extra – on top of their wage!)… needless to say they were delighted! This is the biggest tip ever given to any of our teams… very generous indeed.
I am really happy with our black mortar tubes – made to our higher specs, and much safer than most of the generally available orange fibre tubes. I have some photos of a couple of orange tubes which were demolished during a shoot done by a friend… very scary! Of course, I am sure that not all suppliers of orange tubes ’skimp’ on quality, but it goes to show that it is worth checking the quality of fibre tubes before buying them, and not just going for the cheaper option, in an effort to ’cut down overheads’. The Firework Shop has not – and never will – compromise the safety of our clients or staff… which is why we are the best on Koh Samui of course! :)

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