Fitting your well cover: one morning, four anchors

Why resin anchoring — and nothing else

Copings are a hundred years old or more: their mortar is dead and their stones are sometimes cracked deep inside. Expansion bolts split that kind of substrate; nylon plugs spin in old drill holes. A resin anchor glues the stud into the mass with no expansion stress: it is the only fixing we guarantee in old stone. The supplied instructions give the maximum tightening torque — over-tightening on soft stone does more damage than under-tightening.

When to choose our fitting service

Three cases. Large-diameter domes (60 kg to offer up without scratching the stone: a job for two people who have done it before). Lockable covers (the adjustment of hinges and hasp determines how smoothly it will work for twenty years). And visibly fragile or listed copings, where we may switch to the counterweighted frame with no drilling at all. In those cases, the €150 – 300 of the fitting service is the best line on the quote.

After fitting: nothing, or nearly. An annual glance at the four nuts, a rinse with clean water, and a paint touch-up after a knock — the galvanising underneath does not move. Your cover is good for decades; the upkeep detail is on each model page.