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Building the PropDog Shop

In March of 2013, after 2 year of searching, I eventually found an industrial unit that would be suitable to base the PropDog Shop.  

The unit was previously occupied by a company who dealt with damaged baggage from nearby Heathrow Airport.  If your suitcase or bag got damaged during the flight or by baggage handlers, this is where it would end up.  They would either fix it, exchange it or evaluate the cost for compensation.

The problem was, this company had gone bankrupt and they’d left the unit in rather a hurry, meaning it was full of hundreds of old suitcases and was in a terrible state.  The landlords would sort the unit out, but it would take around 6 months, which I wasn’t willing to do, so I took it as seen.

There was so much work to do, I was quoted about £20,000 for the work necessary to move in, which I didn’t have, so I set about doing all the work myself.

The below videos show the progress of the work I did, from the very beginning, to opening up the shop for customers. It took several months, a lot of late nights and a lot of stress. But I finally did it and we opened the doors in September 2013. Oh how much it's changed since then.

 

1 Comments To "Building the PropDog Shop"

Paul Sunderland on 20.08.2020
Great to see these videos and how much has changed since you first got the building. Maybe an updated video to show how the layout looks now can be added to this? Well done to everyone who makes this business one of the friendliest magic dealers out there I only wish I didn’t live 250 miles away or I would be visiting on a more regular basis. Reply to this comment

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