David built an excellent reputation for quality curtain track fitting, at an excellent price. Man and a van worked well for many years. Many customers became more like friends than customers to David.

In 2001 David was looking to retire and end Makin' Tracks. Mark Collins had already taken an interest in the fitting side of the business that David had built up over the years. So rather than let a good business end, Mark with his engineering background took over in a part time roll. Since there were only a limited number of good track fitters in the area. The loss of David would have affected a number of companies who relied on his fitting skills and experience.

Mark is an Apprentice trained fitter with 13 years experience. Mainly in large industry, manufacturing all sorts of hardware for industry, like fitting heavy lifting beams and bolting them underground to ceilings to take anything up to 4 tons lifting capacity. This meant testing the newly fitted equipment to twice the safe working load, 8 tons....

Having worked in the Specialist team, which dealt with all repairs or projects out side of normal working duties. Which varied from repairing a vandalized door, rebuilding a broken gearbox to building experimental test rigs. This has given Mark a broad range of skills which are suited to the fitting of curtain tracks, poles, blinds and much more. Mark's love for classic cars see's him doing most of the work him self as this again drives forward with new challenges and skills, like building this web site from scratch. Rather than listen to all the "gobble de gook"about how difficult it is to do. Makin' tracks has been involved in the development of curtain pole fittings and track fitting products with a few manufactures since he saw that the products could be improved rather than just made do with.

Difficult houses where the walls are not too sound, have been an area Makin' Tracks exceeds due to our experience and understanding of building construction. New build houses continue to offer new problems for fitting but have not hindered our work.

Makin' Tracks is a growing company. 2004 saw our growth area in the sales side of curtain poles, blinds, tracks, curtains and furniture. This is set to carry on in 2005 with a new range of ready made curtains ,made to measure curtains, blinds , furniture and carpets. Makin' Tracks is set to develop in to a company that can offer you the home owner a package to suit your needs in many ways

Our top seller in 2004 was our new and exciting range of wooden Venetian blinds. Available in a huge range of colours and styles. From Contract to Bespoke. Our prices have had our customers wanting more blinds!!