Work completes on Countess of Chester Hospital
Our cosmetics repairs team has recently been working at the Countess of Chester Hospital, which is the main hospital for the city of Chester and consists of over 600 patient beds.
What we did
Founded in 1829, originally as a mental health asylum, the hospital was renamed the Countess of Chester Hospital officially in 1984. The main hospital provides a full range of immediate and short-term medical care and is managed by The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where the partnership started in 2004.
The cosmetics repairs team has built up a strong relationship with The Countess of Chester Hospital Trust, having recently worked on other hospitals in the region that are also managed by the trust. The team were brought in to carry out works on the current outpatient reception desk in the hospital, to help repair it and bring it back to its original condition.
The SD Team wanted to ensure the project was sustainable and that it caused as little inconvenience as possible to the outpatient services, so closing down the ward temporarily was not an option. This also meant that as it was a live part of the hospital, the team were not able to carry out the works on the reception desk during working hours, so all repairs took place during the night.
Following years of wear and tear, the team were required to repair over 60 chips and dents that were located all over the desk as well as rectify a large amount of the original veneer which was peeling off from the surface.
