Updated: Sep 1, 2023
Here at M.I.B. Services we think in this day and age it's vital to give our customers the confidence that they are dealing with a professional business and to aid this, all core staff employed by us are vetted through the DisclosureSCOTLAND and CRB (criminal records bureau).
We are one of only few Edinburgh based landscape maintenance businesses do so. As a family run business, trust is everything to us and we make every effort to assure our customers they are in fact dealing with a, professionally qualified, well organized company and most important, a company that they can trust to carry out their work with no problems.
As well as all core staff (including the proprietors of the business) we also firmly believe in ongoing staff training and company training. M.I.B. Services is one of the few in our industry that are fully qualified in amenity horticulture (SVQ level II) and associated machinery operation competences (Lantra, NPTC and City & Guilds) as well as the company and proprietor being accredited to SAFEcontractor, RoSPA Human Focus, CSCS and S.P.A. health and safety standards. All of these H & S accreditation's are approved by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).
We believe our customers who include, A P Broome Lanscapes Ltd (Nation Grid contracts), Ross Liddell, Grant and Wilson, Peverel Scotland, McSence Property Services, TGR Holdings, NSD International, Buckstone Residents Associations, Fairmeadow Residents Association, PLS Ltd and Skanska FM appreciate the on going personal development plan of M.I.B. Services and it's staff. It's our guarantee to our customers that we are a pro-active company who are constantly evolving and developing our skills and training, which in turn produces a quality service backed up by professional qualifications and accreditations which our customers can put their trust in.
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Updated: Sep 1, 2023
M.I.B. Services has recently won the contract to maintain the Sedum roofs of 7 newly built primary schools in Midlothian.
I have to admit it felt a bit strange doing mowing and strimming up on roofs !!!!. Before we could even get near the roof, we had to undertake a "working at heights" and a "safety harness " training course, a big thank you to Gavin at Pendrech Height Services for his excellent training course.
We are very pleased to have won this work, it gives us a new market to explore and lots of new opportunities. Our customer is one of the biggest construction and facilities management company's in the world.
Below is some photos and a little about what we will be doing for the contract.
Mowing the Sedum roof.
Yes it does sound silly mowing a roof and we certainly got some strange looks from passersby, but this is just one method of maintenance works for Living roofs
The other way is to strim the Living roofs as this picture shows
Sedum or living roofs are quite a new construction styling to the UK market, and I hope we will see many more schools, universities, colleges, NHS Doctors Practices being constructed in this way.
Turfing works on Glentress Forest mountain bike centre.
We recently completed a rather unusual turfing project at the Glentress centre, Peebles.
Creating outdoor seating constructed entirely from turf. Here are the photos taken before, during and after all the work.
This job involved 1200 rolls of turf.
As it looked before we started the make-over works
The hard work begins !!
Building up the sub-base of the structure's
Taking level's and setting height's
We created the "building blocks by unrolling the rolls of turf and folding them into square-ish blocks and the whole job was was completed in much the same way as you would build a brick wall. Every second layer of "turf block" was locked in place with a wrap over layer of turf as shown in the photos below.
Grubbing up the ground around the turf seating prior to the seeding of wild meadow flower and grass seed to compliment the seating area
Nearly completed
Preparing the last area for turfing. This took a back breaking day of hand barrowing in some 40 tonnes of top soil
Once the top soil was in place it was raked to level and prepared for the final phase of the turfing
All the tuf laid, just a few finishing cuts to even off and job done.
In the background you can see the finished turf seats from the previous photos.
All in all, a really nice job and something
really different.