The Window Workshop in Ramsgate has closed its doors after 26 years of trade.
The family business, opened in 1997, was based in Whitehall Road and its yellow work vans have been a familiar sight around the isle
Directors say a drop in trade since covid and then the cost of living crisis has forced the decision to close.
A post on behalf of business owners, the Deal family, says: “We have regrettably made the decision to close our company after 26 years of trading. This was an emotional decision as we had staff and family members employed by us.
“Due to the current climate since lockdown/interest rates etc, we have been injecting our own money into our company to ensure we kept our valued employees in work, we honestly tried our upmost through these trying years.
“Unfortunately as our work was quietening down it was no longer viable for us to keep trading. As a company we never took deposits, so no customers have been affected by loss of monies. Existing customers will have their installations automatically covered by QANW, a national insurance company.
“We apologise to anyone who did have work scheduled to be installed and could not notify them, as we have instructed a company to act on our behalf, we were advised we could not contact anyone, again to emphasise no monies had exchanged from any customers.
“We have ensured sufficient funds and the value of machinery/stock etc will cover any surplus invoices for those companies who we did not pay.
“This has been a very hard decision and (we) thank everyone who has contacted us, friends, family and previous customers to send us their best wishes.”
Winding up and creditor details have not yet been published on Companies House.
