Following his exploits as a paratrooper in World War II the company’s founder, the late Sam Rafferty, wanted a career that demanded the skills of a special type of workman. The qualities of such a man would require a skilled craftsman with the ability and courage to work high above the ground in a demanding environment. With this brief, Sam Rafferty established the Rafferty Steeplejacks Company in 1949, which then became a limited company in 1954 forming the foundation for today.

Since its formation, Rafferty’s have continued to invest in growth and diversification with uncompromising standards to their inspection and maintenance services, to building its engineering base to research and develop acknowledge market leading technologies.

Today with decades of experience behind them, Rafferty’s operate throughout the U.K, EUROPE and the WORLD as the U.K’s leading specialist in all aspects of industrial chimney engineering from inspection, maintenance and demolition to design, manufacture and installation of new steel chimneys.

The picture below shows Sam Rafferty standing on the scaffolding above his three younger brothers after erecting a new 140ft high steel chimney in 1959. Year 2007, some 48 years later Matt Rafferty seen here pictured left below, following in his grandfather Sam’s footsteps, high up on a 92m (303 feet) high steel chimney in Coventry.

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