Popped into town today - quite a few of these 'new/instant' cobblers about wanting to charge me around £22-£28 to rubber re-sole and heel my ancient but good for both cycling and walking leather touring shoes.
That doesn't make economical sense to me. So the question is can you think of anywhere I could buy the sole/heels myself, I have an old cobblers lass here, and can do it myself. I realise that we all in different towns but would say Woolworths still do them?
The 'instant cobblers' did not want to sell me the materials - no surprises there then.
On 25/2/05 9:00 pm, in article [email hidden], "Hywel
Davies said:
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Popped into town today - quite a few of these 'new/instant' cobblers about wanting to charge me around £22-£28 to rubber re-sole and heel my ancient but good for both cycling and walking leather touring shoes.
That doesn't make economical sense to me. So the question is can you think of anywhere I could buy the sole/heels myself, I have an old cobblers lass here, and can do it myself. I realise that we all in different towns but would say Woolworths still do them?
Sounds a reasonable price. What's a new pair cost: sixty quid say ? Get another few years for less than half that; that's assuming there's enough life left in them.
I worked out in a thoughtfull moment (walking back from the cobbler's probably) that a pair of normal shoes costs about twice its purchase price in repairs over its lifetime. If you replaced rather than repaired each time, then each "repair" would be a hundred quid instead of £25-£30 (based on a tidy pair of brogues say).
And you don't have the pain of breaking them in over again!
Doesn't work for mountain boots, since mine are stuffed by the time the sole's had it.
Mine are currently on their third sole and going fine.. They do look a bit tired but are still fully functional.
