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The Refurb Company, Unit A Technology House, Innovation Park, Technology Road, Poole (2026)

19/06/2026

We Cut the Cord on Laptop Testing 📡

Two tools. One problem solved. No ethernet cable in sight. 👇

If you've ever set up a testing bench, you know the pain: a tangle of ethernet cables, machines tethered to a switch, and a growing pile of modern laptops that don't even have an ethernet port anymore. So you're hunting for USB-C dongles just to get a device online long enough to test it.

We were done with that.
🟦 Intake Scan — a WinPE stick
Boot any machine off the stick. In under 2 minutes you get:
🔹 Full hardware spec capture

🔹 Battery health

🔹 A quick screen test

🔹 A hardware hash — which flows straight into the Autopilot Lock Checker automatically
No imaging, no setup, no waiting. Plug in, boot, scan, done.

🐧 Full Test & Audit — a Linux testing system
For the deeper pass: a complete functional test and audit that confirms specs, checks components, and flags discrepancies — the full picture on every machine.
📡 And here's the part that changes everything: it's all wireless
Both tools connect over Wi-Fi. No ethernet port required, no dongles, no cable management.
That means:
✔️ Test laptops anywhere — bench, shelf, pallet, wherever there's space

✔️ Data transmits straight to the server the moment the scan finishes

✔️ Instant updates — the batch reflects reality in real time

✔️ Modern port-free laptops? No problem. They were always going to be the future anyway.
⏱️ Under 2 minutes. Per machine.
Spec, battery health, screen test, hardware hash — captured, transmitted, and on your server before you've picked up the next unit. And because the hardware hash auto-routes to the Autopilot checker, you know whether a device is clean to sell before it ever hits the bench.
This is intake the way it should be: fast, wireless, and instant.
The cable era is over too. 📡
👉 refurb.software

21/05/2026

Right now, most refurbishers are paying £20–30 per cut file in either time or paying companies. You may use the cut file once or twice and never use again

Multiply that across a batch. Across a month. Across a year.

That's the maths problem we've just solved.

We've built a Design & Cut File Portal with 4,500+ files ready to go — and growing every week. Search the model you need, hit download, and the cut file lands straight in your software. Summa GO. Thrive. Roland VersaWorks. Mimaki for keyboard print files. No emails back and forth. No waiting on a designer. No £25 invoice for a file you needed yesterday.

On the subscription, you're looking at £1–3 per download depending on volume.

It covers cut files for Skinz, Screen Savers, and keyboard print files for Mimaki printers. Everything we use ourselves, now opened up.

90-second walkthrough below 👇

We're rolling this out to a small group first before opening it wider. If you run a refurb operation and this looks useful, drop a comment or DM me — I'll send over the access details and pricing tiers.

Genuinely curious to see who's interested. The economics speak for themselves, but I want to hear how it'd fit into your workflow.

13/05/2026

👀 Here's something most of the industry hasn't noticed:

Laptop keyboards aren't black anymore.

Look closely at a modern Dell Latitude, an HP EliteBook, or most current-gen business machines. The keys are charcoal. Dark grey. A clear shade off from the pure black we've all been matching to for years. And it doesn't stop there — blues, light greys, and a whole palette of finishes are now coming off the OEM lines.

Our SticKeys are widely considered the best on the market. We could've sat on that. We didn't.

✨ We've developed a new base material that lets us colour-match the full modern range — charcoal, blue, light grey, and every other shade the major manufacturers are now shipping.

The photos show charcoal in action:
🟢 New SticKeys
🟡 Original keyboard
🔴 Traditional SticKeys

Look at how the new ones vanish into the original keys. The same is now true across the rest of the colour range.

✅ Same 3-year anti-peel, anti-fade guarantee
✅ Same price

🛍️ Both ranges are live now at therefurbcompany.com — traditional for the older fleet, new for everything modern. Use the right one for the job.

The bar moves. So do we. 🚀

04/05/2026

New colours just landed from HP. And they look gorgeous.

We've just received the latest HP EliteBooks for design and development — and HP have made some bold moves. The silver is gone. In its place, a white pearlescent finish with a hint of silver that looks absolutely stunning. The keyboards have shifted from black to grey. And the blue range? A whole new shade of blue.

These are the most visually striking corporate laptops HP have produced in years.

The last time HP made a major colour change was the move from the 840 G3/G4 silver to white aluminium. That took me 18 months to develop the material and get the colour match right. This time? We'll have it done in weeks.

Because we make our own material. We do our own colour matching. Everything is designed, developed and manufactured right here at our Poole HQ. That's the difference. We don't wait for someone else to figure it out — we get the laptop on the desk and we get to work.

Corporate laptops are going multi-colour. More finishes, more variety, more complexity. And I love it. It's exactly the kind of challenge that gets us out of bed in the morning.

But for refurbishers it raises a question — who is going to support you when these devices start coming through in volume? Who has the materials ready? Who has the colour match done?

We will. From day one.

That's what we do. We stay ahead so our customers never fall behind. New colour? We're already on it. New model? We're already designing for it. Because if our customers do better, we do better.

📍 Designed, developed and manufactured right here in Poole, Dorset.

🌍 Think Global, Refurb Local.

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04/05/2026

From unsellable to Grade A. This is the moment it all comes together.

🎬 Video seven. The finale. Watch us apply the side skins, do the final review, and finish this HP x360 G8 transformation.

Seven videos. Every single step. Cleaning, palmrest, SticKeys™, base, feet, lid, and now the sides. Nothing skipped. Nothing hidden. The full process from a laptop nobody wanted to a device that looks and feels factory fresh.

The side skins are the finishing touch. The detail that ties the lid, base and palmrest together into one seamless result. Precision cut, colour matched, manufactured by us. When they go on, the refurbishment is complete — and invisible.

That's the standard. If you can tell it's been refurbished, it hasn't been refurbished well enough.

This series wasn't just about one laptop. It was about showing you that this is repeatable, scalable, and achievable in your own facility with our products and our training.

Every skin. Every SticKey. Every pot of colour matched paint. Designed, developed and manufactured right here in Poole.

If our customers do better, we do better. That's why we made this series.

🌍 Think Global, Refurb Local.

👇 Watch the finale below. Then go back and watch all seven. This is how Grade A is done.

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01/05/2026

The lid is the first impression. It has to be perfect.

🎬 Video six of our HP x360 G8 series — watch us apply the lid skin and paint the side edges as this laptop edges closer to Grade A.

Our lid skin is precision cut, perfectly colour matched by us, and covers the main body of the lid in minutes. For the side edges, our colour matched paint gives a seamless finish where a skin can't reach. Both developed together so there's no visible difference between the two.

Skin on the face. Paint on the edges. One flawless finish from every angle.

✅ No disassembly required
✅ Three-year warranty against peeling and fading
✅ Colour matched paint also available to purchase

This is video six of seven. One laptop. Unsellable to Grade A. Nearly there.

If our customers do better, we do better.

📍 Poole, Dorset.

🌍 Think Global, Refurb Local.

👇 Watch below and follow the full series.

🔗 therefurbcompany.com

01/05/2026

New feet. Small detail. Big difference.

🎬 Video five of our HP x360 G8 series — watch us fit new feet to this laptop as it goes from unsellable to Grade A.

It takes seconds. But when a customer picks up that laptop and it sits flat, feels solid, looks complete — that's the detail that separates good enough from Grade A.

Missing feet, worn feet, mismatched feet — they all scream refurbished. New feet say factory fresh. The small details matter because they make the big impression.

This is video five of seven. One laptop. Every step. Nothing held back.

If our customers do better, we do better.

📍 Poole, Dorset.

🌍 Think Global, Refurb Local.

👇 Watch below and follow the full series.

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30/04/2026

The base skin. The one everyone thinks is the hardest. It is. But we've got a method that makes it simple.

🎬 Video four of our HP x360 G8 series is here — watch us apply a base skin and show you the exact technique we use to get a perfect result every single time.

Let's be upfront. The base is the trickiest skin to apply. More contours, more cutouts, more edges to work around. It's the one that puts people off trying. But that's exactly why we made this video.

The TRC method breaks it down step by step. Where to start, where to align, how to work around the vents and feet, how to smooth it down without creasing. Follow our method and you'll get it right first time. We've taught customers all over the world to do exactly that.

And just like every skin in our range — the base skin is precision cut to the exact dimensions of the x360 G8, perfectly colour matched by us, and manufactured right here in Poole. Every safety marking, every regulatory symbol, every detail recreated from the original. Pick it up and you wouldn't know it had been done. That's the standard.

Why base skins over paint?

✅ Paint on a base wears through — it's the most abused surface on any laptop
✅ A skin is faster to apply, more durable and more cost effective
✅ No disassembly required
✅ Perfect colour match with all original markings recreated
✅ Three-year warranty against peeling and fading — paint can't offer that

The trickiest skin to apply? Yes. Impossible? Not even close. Not when you've got the right materials and the right method.

We don't just sell products and leave you to figure it out. We train, we support, and we share everything we know. Because if our customers do better, we do better.

This is video four of seven. One laptop. Unsellable to Grade A. Nothing held back.

📍 Designed, developed and manufactured right here in Poole, Dorset.

🌍 Think Global, Refurb Local.

👇 Watch video four below and follow along with the full series. If you want to know how our Skinz, SticKeys™, Screen Savers and colour matched paints can transform your refurb operation — let's talk.

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30/04/2026

Need to change a keyboard from German to English? French to Spanish? Any language to any language? Takes minutes. No new keyboard required.

🎬 Video three of our HP x360 G8 series is here — watch us apply our patented SticKeys™ and see just how quick and easy a keyboard refurbishment and language conversion really is.

This is the one that changes everything when you're refurbishing at scale. You've got a batch of 200 laptops come in from Germany. Great spec, great condition, wrong language. Before SticKeys™ you're sourcing 200 replacement keyboards, paying for them, waiting for them, and fitting them. That's time, cost and a bottleneck you don't need.

With SticKeys™? Open the laptop. Apply the keys. Close the laptop. Done.

Every key is individually precision cut to the exact specification of the x360 G8, colour matched to the original keyboard, and backed by a three-year warranty against peeling and fading. They are patented. Nobody else makes them. Nobody else can do what they do.

Why SticKeys™ are the smartest move in your refurb process?

✅ Full language conversion in minutes with no disassembly
✅ No sourcing replacement keyboards — any language to any language
✅ Removes the single biggest bottleneck in international refurb batches
✅ Patented product — designed, developed and manufactured by us
✅ Three-year warranty on every set
✅ So simple any member of your team can apply them — no specialist training needed

This is video three of seven. One laptop going from unsellable to Grade A. Every single step shared with you.

Because if our customers do better, we do better.

📍 Designed, developed and manufactured right here in Poole, Dorset.

🌍 Think Global, Refurb Local.

👇 Watch video three below and follow along with the full series. If you want to know how our Skinz, SticKeys™, Screen Savers and colour matched paints can transform your refurb operation — let's talk.

🔗 therefurbcompany.com

29/04/2026

Before any skin goes on, before any SticKeys™ are applied, before any paint touches the edges — it starts with the clean.

🎬 New series just launched — watch us take an HP x360 G8 from unsellable to Grade A across seven videos. This first episode covers the tools we use and the full cleaning process.

This laptop came in looking like it had no future. Scuffed, scratched, dirty, written off. Most people would strip it for parts or sell it at a loss. We see something different. We see a Grade A device waiting to happen.

But you don't jump straight to cosmetics. You start with the fundamentals.

In this video we walk you through every tool we use and why we use it. No mystery, no guesswork. Just the exact process our team follows every single time to get a device clean and ready for refurbishment.

Why does cleaning matter this much?

✅ Skins, SticKeys™ and paint all perform better on a properly prepped surface
✅ A clean device means better adhesion, better finish and a longer lasting result
✅ It sets the standard for everything that follows — cut corners here and it shows
✅ This is the foundation of a repeatable, scalable refurb process

Seven videos. One laptop. Every single step from start to finish.

We're not just showing you the end result. We're showing you the entire journey — because we want our customers to achieve the same Grade A finish we do, on every unit, at any scale.

If our customers do better, we do better.

📍 Designed, developed and manufactured right here in Poole, Dorset.

🌍 Think Global, Refurb Local.

👇 Watch the first video below and follow along with the full series. If you want to know how our Skinz, SticKeys™, Screen Savers and colour matched paints can transform your refurb operation — let's talk.

🔗 therefurbcompany.com

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