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Installation Step 1 - Calculating Grass required

Before starting work you need to calculate how much artificial grass you will require.  Carefully measure the overall length and width of the planned turfed area. Always allow for the widest part of the lawn.

Namgrass artificial grass is supplied from 2 metre or 4 metre wide rolls.  For a garden area of 5.2 metre wide and 6 metre long you would need 2 rolls: 4m x 6m and 2m x 6m.  You would then cut back from the 4 metre (possibly 2 metre) roll to achieve you 5.2 metre width.

Millboard Envello Cladding

The Millboard range has been incredibly popular and demand has grown for a similar cladding product. Envello Cladding is that product – composite cladding that has been hand-moulded using carefully selected natural timbers. The cladding is designed for low maintenance and visual impact

Envello Shadow Line profile or Envello Board and Batten profile?

There’s a choice of two profiles and four colours to provide different styles for almost every property type. Years of development of Millboard products has helped to produce a composite cladding designed to stand the test of time.
Shadow Line Cladding is available in Antique Oak (MCG360A) , Golden Oak (MCG360G) , Burnt Cedar (MCG360R) or Smoked Oak (MCG360D). There is also a matched colour range of ancillary trims. Shadow Line boards are designed to replicate a smoother timber with a flat-grain finish.

The Board & Batten cladding pro

A number of new models of Playhouses were introduced in 2022.  Each new playhouse, with their key features, are listed below.

Beach Hut

A little of everything on this playhouse, elevated play area, sandpit frame at bottom, stable door and shuttered window

Beach Hut with climbing wall

Loads of playtime on this one. The play platform is raised with access via an integral ladder or the climbing wall. The space under the play-platform is utilised with a sandpit area. Upstairs features include a wooden stable style door 

Beach Hut with Swing

Beach Hut module but with a single swing included. 

Transport for Fibre Cement products

Our business has evolved over the last few years and we are enjoying increased demand for cladding products.  James Hardie supply a range of fibre cement cladding, aluminium trims and speciailist fittings including coloured paint and colour head stainless screws. We also get requests from all over the UK for Hardie's Geckgo Gauges, Circular Saw Blades and Guillotines.  Transport has traditionally been a challenge but we are finding more cost-effective ways of moving products around Mainland UK. 

James Hardie Ventilation and Starter strips

To make the most of the Hardie cladding products

It is coming to that time of year again, shorter and colder days and not so much to do in the garden. Why not take the autumn/winter slowdown for organising storage around the garden and utility areas. To make life easier we have pulled together what we think might be useful.

Log Storage

The options for log storage have already been covered in a posting, see log storage where we have listed offerings from Rowlinson Garden Products, Forest Gardens and Huttons.  Rowlinsons and Forest Garden both offer free delivery on most items to Mainland UK addresses. There are a few exclusions for some remote areas. 

These items are delivered direct from the manufacturer to the door, lead time is normally 7-14 days.  For more local Devon and Cornwall customers we have log stores from the Gloucestershire based Huttons.  There is normally

Autumn is creeping in, the chimeras, log fires and burners are ready for action, but are your logs stored neat and tidy?  At Southern Timber we have options for you - Hutton (Devon and Cornwall), Rowlinson Garden Products (free UK Mainland delivery and Forest Garden (free UK Mainland delivery)

Hutton Log

Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 30th September 2022

Having a Coffee Morning is the perfect chance to catch up over a cuppa and a slice of something delicious for a great cause.  One in two of us will face cancer, and the money you help us raise at our Coffee Morning will help people with cancer to live life as fully as they can.

Our colleagues make platefuls of delicious cakes and biscuits topped up with a few savoury treats as well.  You can wash your snack down with a cup of tea or coffee as well. We run our Macmillan fundraiser event for as long as we are open on the Friday, that means you will have chance to share something with us from 7.30am onwards.

Although we are based in Devon our flooring deliveries can be made to most Mainland UK addresses. Our Hauliers indicate a 2-5 working day lead time for flooring deliveries in most of England, Scotland and Wales. Offshire Islands such as the Isle-of-Wight; the Isle-of-Man and the Scottish Highlands & Islands generally take a few days more.

Deliveries are dependent on stock availability, but this is normally quite quickly determined.  Stock is normally

Namgrass Deliveries

 Our artificial grass is manufactured by Namgrass in Belgium. It is supplied cut off a 2 metre or 4 metre roll depending on customers requirement.

Some products that we sell are difficult to purchase elsewhere and give us a price advantage.  In the case of HardiePlank and other Hardie products we keep every current colour in stock, but other merchants such as Travis Perkins & Jewsons don’t. Therefore they have to order these specific products in from Hardies (distribution based in Eastleigh, Southampton) with both extra cost implications and longer lead times. Other specialised products that may be viable to send via  the Pallet network include bead & butt cladding, pitch pine flooring and Millboard deckboards.

 Delivery lead times

We try to keep all HardiePlank, trims and Hardie VL items in stock.  A typical web order will be between 40 and 200 boards, and we can deliver to most parts of Devon & Cornwall using our own transport. Depending on the total sale value, and delivery location, there may be an associated delivery charge. D