{"id":103,"date":"2022-10-31T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/skis\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:49:33","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/skis\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are a very knowledgeable ski and snowboard business, who love getting the best out of our time on the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-wistia-inc wp-block-embed-wistia-inc wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Skiers Lounge Showroom Tour 2025 Video\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/lr7pecytux?dnt=1#?secret=ZhICGZfN5k\" data-secret=\"ZhICGZfN5k\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our origins are former winter sports retailer Edge &amp; Wax, a multiple award winning ski shop with it&#8217;s sister store Bliss Snowboards. Sadly the retailer closed last year after 8 years of serving awesome customers with similar interests. We were a victim of European pricing, the fear of Brexit overseas, the sale of our base of operations and bluntly growing far too quickly! <strong>Edge &amp; Wax<\/strong> started in 2007 at the back of founder Scott Hargrave&#8217;s garden in a shed, helping teach people to service their own skis and snowboards, and selling the right tools for the job offering friendly advice along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now, in 2017, Scott returned to his roots servicing skis and snowboards for friends and former customers and focused initially on selling ski and snowboard tuning equipment and waxes as <strong>Ski &amp; Snowboard Wax<\/strong> which slowly grew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And at the end of 2019 we have gone full time once again with a dedicated workshop and boot fitting facility \u2013 The Skiers Barn, an old barn that was a former cold storage and in the distant past a secure location for casualties of WW2 when Knepp Castle became an allies hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our small and friendly team has a wealth of knowledge around wintersports, and the latest ski and snowboard servicing methods and boot fitting techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for putting your trust in The Skiers Lounge \/ Ski &amp; Snowboard Wax for your wintersports needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owner \u2013 The Skiers Lounge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Company information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SkiAndSnowboard LTD T\/A The Skiers Lounge is registered in England and Wales, company number 10944757. Registered office The Skiers Lounge, The Ski Barn, Hillhouse Farm, West Grinstead, Horsham, West Sussex. RH13 8LG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a very knowledgeable ski and snowboard business, who love getting the best out of our time on the mountains. Our origins are former winter sports retailer Edge &amp; Wax, a multiple award winning ski shop with it&#8217;s sister store Bliss Snowboards. 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