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Where we work · Bournemouth

Sea air, dead drives, plain physics.

Bournemouth runs on offices and sea air — finance floors near the Square, freelancers in Boscombe, student houses across Winton, and seven miles of sand that most of them photograph. Its dead drives ride the same tracked post as everywhere else we cover, and meet the same free diagnosis at this end of the journey.

Tracked inbound post · return free No charge to diagnose on arrival Quotes fixed in writing

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What lands here from Bournemouth.

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The problemWhy we see it hereFirst step
A Boscombe studio's working project driveDesigners and makers keep one copy far more often than they'd sayWe image it; then go buy a spare
A Westbourne shop's do-everything PCStock lists, ledgers and customers on one elderly machineRecovery ours, rebuild yours
A card that corrupted after a beach shootThe pier and the chines are photographed daily; cards still failRemove the card, write nothing further
A drive out of a damp seafront flat in winterOld conversions and clifftop flats meet condensationEnvironmental route, and no home drying
A freelancer's laptop dies before invoicing daySelf-employed deadlines are as hard as anyone'sName the date; priority is available
Sending it in: send it to our secure intake lab by tracked, fully insured post — return postage is on us — with the shipping form packed alongside. The complete packing routine sits on the contact page.

How Bournemouth work gets done.

Portfolios handled as business filesProject archives and portfolio disks are treated like any firm's data: name what matters most, results are checked against your own folder list, confidentiality throughout.
Down the A31, then postedEvery BH postcode has ordinary next-working-day tracked services into the lab — the Dorset coast is one parcel away, exactly as the doorstep is.
Sea air, said honestlyHardware beside the sea fails in seaside ways. Say what it went through, keep it off the radiator, and let corrosion be dealt with properly here — the environmental page lists everything not to try.
No small print anywhereFree diagnosis, one written quote that stays fixed, most jobs no fix no fee, return postage paid — the Boscombe price and the Southampton price are one price.

Bournemouth's questions, minus the waffle.

Are Boscombe, Westbourne and Winton covered?

All of them, in full — we work through tracked post, which puts the Dorset coast precisely as near the bench as our own street. Parcels usually land the next working day.

Will you get back portfolios and creative project files?

We see it constantly: design archives, photo libraries, edit drives. Give us the folders that matter most and any deadline — checks run against your list first, and the ordering follows the real dates.

A drive has died in a damp flat — does that change anything?

Tell us when you book it in, and skip the folk cures: no test power-up, no airing cupboard, no rice. Damp drives recover well when nothing has been tried on them.

In practice, what does the distance from Southampton cost?

Just a label and a day on the road, nothing more. Diagnosis costs you nothing, the written quote is fixed, and we cover return postage to every Bournemouth postcode.

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Recovering photos → Flood, damp & environmental → External drives → Every area we serve →

Bournemouth to this bench: post it, don't drive it.

Switch it off, describe what went wrong, and take a free diagnosis before you commit to anything.

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