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When This Barber Was Quoted £1000 For The New Shop Floor He Decided To Cover It With 70,000 Pennies Instead
When a barber shop owner, Rich Holtham, got an estimate of £1000 for the new shop floor, he decided he can do better. So instead, he exchanged 700 pounds to 70,000 pennies and covered the whole floor with them.
“We wanted a new floor but the cost of getting it done was expensive and we wanted to do something a bit more unusual, so we looked at a few different ideas online,” Rich told Daily Mail. The whole barber shop crew spent a full week gluing the coins to the ground, and that’s excluding the gap grouting that was done after.
“We had to take our own cash to the bank and we had to take hundreds of pennies out a day,” explained the owner of 4 barber shops across the UK. “In the end, we took out £700 worth of pennies. That’s 70,000 coins.”
In the end, the barber shop got not only the coolest floor in town, but also some free advertising: “We have had a lot of interest in the floor, to be fair. Passers-by keep coming into the shop to take a few photos. We have gained a lot of business from it.”
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When Rich Holtham got an estimate of £1000 for a new shop floor, he decided he can do better
Instead, he decided to use 70,000 pennies to cover the whole shop floor
“It seemed to take forever”
“We had to take our own cash to the bank and we had to take hundreds of pennies out a day”
It took a full week to lay 700 pounds-worth of pennies
But the new floor worked out as a great advertisement as well
“Passers-by keep coming into the shop to take a few photos”
“We have gained a lot of business from it”
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Daniel Losinger 8 years ago
It still cost the same amount as the original estimate by the time they paid for glue and resin.
Judqment8 8 years ago
Hardly. As the article says "we have gained a lot of business from it" which means that they are getting more customers thanks to the new and completely unique floor. If they'd just ordered the bland normal floor they wouldn't be no where near as popular as they are now. This beautiful special floor is going to net them a nice revenue in the long run.
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Thomas Campbell 8 years ago
He should have exchanged the British pennies for Canadian pennies...same effect, but 70,000 Canadian Pennies would have only come to £428.73.
jetmastergames 8 years ago
I've seen the bottle-cap bar and this, but I haven't seen any others, Could you perhaps give an example
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Lu 8 years ago
Very cool - personally i would have thrown in a few hundred silver coins, and go for a pattern to break it up. I thought a few letters they wrote really stood out.
Kira Thesloth 8 years ago
There was a guy on here who did this in his home by alternating the lighter color pennies with the dark to make really nice patterns. I think it took him a while lot longer though, & that was fine for him because he was doing it at his home & not his business. These guys probably would have lost a lot of business if they took too long.
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Terry McElligott 8 years ago
So where is this penny shop? The article failed to give that away !
Paul Moriarty 8 years ago
Hey BS4 I finished my entry to the house, about three months ago. Took me about 4 hours total, with 3200 pennies. Back was killing me, but well worth it. Friends are amazed I would even do this floor in pennies. YOUR FLOOR LOOKS GREAT ! Good luck with the barber shop !! Paul from Tampa. Pennie-Ent...1e551f.jpg 
Daniel Losinger 8 years ago
It still cost the same amount as the original estimate by the time they paid for glue and resin.
Judqment8 8 years ago
Hardly. As the article says "we have gained a lot of business from it" which means that they are getting more customers thanks to the new and completely unique floor. If they'd just ordered the bland normal floor they wouldn't be no where near as popular as they are now. This beautiful special floor is going to net them a nice revenue in the long run.
Load More Replies... Thomas Campbell 8 years ago
He should have exchanged the British pennies for Canadian pennies...same effect, but 70,000 Canadian Pennies would have only come to £428.73.
jetmastergames 8 years ago
I've seen the bottle-cap bar and this, but I haven't seen any others, Could you perhaps give an example
Load More Replies... Lu 8 years ago
Very cool - personally i would have thrown in a few hundred silver coins, and go for a pattern to break it up. I thought a few letters they wrote really stood out.
Kira Thesloth 8 years ago
There was a guy on here who did this in his home by alternating the lighter color pennies with the dark to make really nice patterns. I think it took him a while lot longer though, & that was fine for him because he was doing it at his home & not his business. These guys probably would have lost a lot of business if they took too long.
Load More Replies... Terry McElligott 8 years ago
So where is this penny shop? The article failed to give that away !
Paul Moriarty 8 years ago
Hey BS4 I finished my entry to the house, about three months ago. Took me about 4 hours total, with 3200 pennies. Back was killing me, but well worth it. Friends are amazed I would even do this floor in pennies. YOUR FLOOR LOOKS GREAT ! Good luck with the barber shop !! Paul from Tampa. Pennie-Ent...1e551f.jpg
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