News & Events

This month saw the completions of the office refurbishment, combining two former individual offices into one lager open plan first floor whilst keeping the group floor separate with rest areas and multiple offices. It was nice to be working on this small project for our neighbours and fellow site contractors.

We are delighted to continue our working relationship with Elan on their lovely site in Ilfracombe, in North Devon. This next phase provides more work going into the second half of the year for our drylining division.

June sees the completion of the biggest part of the refurbishment works at St James’ Park, home of Exeter City FC. This month we have completed the main corporate room at the club where they hold the match day dining experiences for sponsors and VIP guests. This room received the new corporate colour scheme of Grey and White with the ECFC Red highlighted in the middle band around the room.

This new colour scheme has given the club a boost in visual standing and brought a professional and clean look the whole building. The room is also used for companies to undertake workshop days, business meetings and seminars. We are very much looking forward to seeing the rest of the building coming together.

May sees us receive the Contractor of the Month Award on our Wain Homes site, Molbrook in South Molton. Well done to the decorating team on site and Wiktor the contracts manager.

This month saw the addition of the tiling contract for customers Place For People on our current drylining site in Exeter. The fantastic progress made by our drylining team has seen Place For People award us with the tiling and bathroom contract on this development. Well done to our surveying team for securing this new contract.

We have completed phase 1 of our mammoth project with Exeter City Football Club redecorating the infamous St James Park in the heart of our home city. The work lead by David Waterfield and his team of experienced decorators last week finished in time for the game at the weekend which finished 1-1 with Northampton Town.

The partnership put together by Louis Greenaway & Tom Wenborn was a vision for the future of the club and it’s corporate identity. Colourfully helped by Crown Paints and Adam Crispin put together this scheme with ourselves.

This first room is for VIPs, player’s family and friends. We are delighted with the outcome and look forward to the rest of the project. Stay tuned for more updates.

This week we held our annual company seminar at Future Skills Centre Exeter. Attended by over 60 staff, sub contractors, partners and suppliers. Louis Greenaway opened with the company update on our 70+ live contracts, future site starts, staff structure and 2025 projections.

Peter Applegate then took to the stage to give an overview on best practices, our site audit procedure, apprentice programme and upskilling along side Wayne Beaufoy at F P Herting & Son Plc and Greenlight Safety & Training with SSG Training and Consultancy Ltd providing an update on our Health & Safety policy and a H&S quick-quiz.

A member of each division then delivered a ‘hot topics’ segment, these were presented by David Waterfield, Ian Macdonald and Steve Clewer. Finally the morning was rounded off by Elliott Jeffery highlighting some customer trends, practices and key points.

Informing our operatives and staff of the vision for the company and where we are going is important and key to us progressing and raising the standards each week. Thank you to everyone that came and also to those that contributed to make the day a huge success.

We are delighted to announce the start of a new partnership with Places for People on their project in Exeter. This exciting new development is a mixture of new houses and flats using both timber frame and block construction.

We cannot wait to start here and get underway with the first dryline. Excellent work by our surveying teams ready for our production team to take to site. Well done to all involved and Thank you to Places for People for entrusting us with this site.

Merry Christmas to all of our staff, suppliers, customers and partners! We will be back on 2nd January ready to go for the year ahead. Thank you to everyone for your support this year.

Our newest ‘Summer Signing’ is Wiktor Wilczewski, who joins us as Decorating and Tiling Contracts Manager for our Somerset and Dorset region. We are delighted to welcome him to our team and build on a reputation for quality, efficiencies and knowledge.

Being based in Somerset gives Wiktor the ability to view, inspect and visit his sites regularly and thoroughly creating strong working relationships with both clients and operatives.

‘I am delighted to have Wiktor join my team here at MJS Group and I instantly recognised his passion and determination for high quality plots, done the right way.’ Peter Applegate comments on the latest recruit in his division. ‘I am extremely happy with the way the group of contracts managers has come together and would like to thank Louis Greenaway for his support in the appointments.

If you are looking for decorating or tiling work in the area please contact Wiktor to discuss opportunities. We are very much looking forward to see the region and team grow in Somerset and Dorset over the coming months and years. Congratulations Wiktor!