Quotation
We have most of our products listed on this website with prices and indicative lead times for all repairs and new bell ropes. If you're looking for a price for a repair to an existing bell rope, the costs and details of most of the repairs we can do, and details about sending us the bell ropes are are all on our 2-Week Bell Rope Repairs page.
Prices for our 100% British Wool bell ropes are on our Bell Ropes Prices page.
If you need a written quotation, please email us at [email protected] with the following information
The length of rope to tie off around the wheel needs to be from about 15ft (4.5m) long. We are happy to supply your ropes with longer top ends replicating the longer top ends provided before, but the rope wrapped around the spokes rarely get used; therefore, keeping it shorter keeps the costs and fitting time down.
* If we do not know your untucked tail end lengths, we will assume a 10ft tail end for quotation purposes - nearly all untucked tail ends are between 10-12ft long. The un-tucked tail end length is related to the wheel size of your bells.
Our Terms & Conditions of sale are set out here. Acceptance of our quotation and provision of the additional details in order to raise an invoice is deemed acceptance of our Terms & Conditions to raise an order.
In addition to the above information, in order for us to make your ropes for you, we will need;
We recommend the length of tucked back rope on any tail end should be no longer than about 3 feet (0.9m) on most bells where the rope touches the floor, increasing to no more than 3ft 6 (1.05m) on any size of bell. We have found it is a false economy to order additional length just in case it needs to be spliced; it tends to increase the rate of wear at the tucks and by hitting the floor.
Prices for our 100% British Wool bell ropes are on our Bell Ropes Prices page.
If you need a written quotation, please email us at [email protected] with the following information
- Tower/church details/dedication (Useful for us to look it up on Dove's guide and to title the quotation)
- Weight of bells (Not essential, we will look it up on Dove's guide if we have the tower/church/dedication)
- Which bell(s) you require the ropes for
- Overall length of rope required, including untucked tail end length that you require (*)
- OR length from the top of the sally to the garter hole and we will assume 10ft tail end, 3ft sally and 15ft of rope to tie off, then round up to the next 5ft integer, giving longer around the wheel to tie off.
- Length of sally (standard is 0.92m or 3ft). Longer sallies are sold in 6" units, up to 1.8m (6ft long).
- sallies that are measured between 3ft and 3ft6 would have started life as a 3ft long sally. A 3ft6 long sally will generally measure up to 3ft10" long after use.
The length of rope to tie off around the wheel needs to be from about 15ft (4.5m) long. We are happy to supply your ropes with longer top ends replicating the longer top ends provided before, but the rope wrapped around the spokes rarely get used; therefore, keeping it shorter keeps the costs and fitting time down.
* If we do not know your untucked tail end lengths, we will assume a 10ft tail end for quotation purposes - nearly all untucked tail ends are between 10-12ft long. The un-tucked tail end length is related to the wheel size of your bells.
- As a rough indication, bells of the following weights have an untucked tail end lengths typically;
- 2 - 3 cwt are about 8 - 9ft long
- 4 - 9cwt are 9ft6 - 10ft
- 10 - 14cwt are circa 10ft6 - 11ft
- 15 - 20cwt are 11ft6 - 12ft
- 20-50cwt are somewhere from 13ft - 15ft (we would encourage you to keep the tuck back of doubled rope to less than 4 feet to minimise the amount of wear at the bottom of the loop that is formed when you pull off and avoid tucks in the tail end coming into contact with boxes/floors etc.
Our Terms & Conditions of sale are set out here. Acceptance of our quotation and provision of the additional details in order to raise an invoice is deemed acceptance of our Terms & Conditions to raise an order.
In addition to the above information, in order for us to make your ropes for you, we will need;
- Length of the untucked tail end
- Sally colours (up to three), if two colours, we will need to know which one is the more dominant.
- Unless otherwise advised, we will assume the length of sally is standard at 0.92cm (or 3ft) and are finished to the traditional 1⅞" (47mm) diameter
We recommend the length of tucked back rope on any tail end should be no longer than about 3 feet (0.9m) on most bells where the rope touches the floor, increasing to no more than 3ft 6 (1.05m) on any size of bell. We have found it is a false economy to order additional length just in case it needs to be spliced; it tends to increase the rate of wear at the tucks and by hitting the floor.
