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Standard designs and ‘bare board’ reduce investment in insulated garden buildings

Russell — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:32:34 +0000

Standard designs at a discount All of our insulated garden buildings to date have been bespoke but, in recognition that there is a significant cost saving if customers choose a design that we have already built, we are now offering some of our designs at a discount of 10-15%. The other option we are offering is ‘self completion’ or ‘bare board’. We install the insulated garden building, complete with roof membrane, external cladding, windows and doors and customers put in the electrics, internal plasterboard, heating and decoration. For those with the time and capability this offers a further 15-20% saving. In both cass the buildings are just as well insulated as our bespoke designs with the same quality of materials and workmanship. Prices below exclude VAT and are for installation within 100 miles of Harpenden. Call for prices beyond and for detailed specification.

Edden: 2.4x 2.4m; £6,500 complete, £4,700 bare board

Jaray: 4 x 3m; £13,500 complete, £11,500 bare board

Moore: 5 x 2.7m; £14,400 complete, £12,200 bare board

Collier: 6 x 3m; £17,800 complete, £15,320 bare board

McClelland: 3 x 3m; £12,100 complete, £9,900 bare board

Rawlings: 3.2 x 3m; £11,700 complete, £9,500 bare board

Wikinson: 5 x 5m; £23,000 complete, £19,800 bare board

Fowkes: 6 x 3m; £13,500 complete, £11,000 bare board

Offers on temporary buildings

Russell — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:58:59 +0000

We are having a pre-season clear out and offer the following at significantly reduced prices (all +VAT).

Awning/canopy/shade sail

The heavy duty fly sheet on our Pavilion (below) can be supplied as a separate awning/roof eg: for outside seating or a play/learning area. Covering an area 5 x 5m, the structure is 3.8m high at the centre and 2.2m at the ridge. The fly is manufactured from Precontraint (Ferrari industry) fabric (590g per sq m) with exceptional resistance to UV degradation, good tear strength and shape retention and inherently flame resistant. There is also an attractive, beige coloured rooflining manufactured from acrylic canvas.

External waterproof cover with posts: £990; internal fabric rooflining: £590; cover and lining together: £1390. All prices for supply; please call for installation costs.

Buildings

We have three display buildings on which we are offering significant discounts. Basic details below but please call for more detail. All buildings can be seen in Harpenden.

Canvas lodge

Canvas lodge

This lodge is 12 x 14 ft (3.6 x 4.3m) and includes two timber windows and a timber door. The one piece shell has synthetic walls and a canvas roof with separate synthetic fly over. Normal price: £2,430+VAT. Offer price: £1,700 (without base), £1,950 (with timber base). Delivery and installation: £380

Timber office/store/shelter

This timber framed building has many attractive features including a triple skinned skylight, one triple glazed and one double glazed opening window plus a fully glazed door. The roof is clad in cedar shingles and the walls in Douglas Fir/Larch. It has 120mm insulation in the roof and includes underfloor heating and internal electrics. It measures 2.4 x 2.4m externally (8 x 8 ft) less the triangle by the door.

Normally retailing for £6,800 we are offering this building for £4,950 installed (within 120 miles of Harpenden).

Pavilion

Our pavilion offers accommodation for up to 6 with two separate insulated rooms and a play/sleeping loft. Overall dimensions are 5 x 5m and an insulated base is included. Price new: £6,250; our price: £4,900. Delivery and installation within 120 miles of Harpenden: £450.

Other buildings

A few examples of the other buildings we design and install to provide additional, highly insulated space for private and commercial clients including this four classroom block to be installed in the Summer. With a floor area close to 160 m2, installation costs amount to less than £1100 per sq metre.

Please call or email for more detail on any of these structures

Low cost holiday accommodation from Spring to Autumn

Neil — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:29:20 +0000

Our new Pavilion is finished and I bravely slept in it last night with the external temperature down to zero. Although not intended as a year round structure I am pleased to report that the stove did a sterling job and I even managed to oversleep and almost get snowed in! So we are confident that this is truly a two season structure allowing you to let the space from early Spring through to late Autumn. We also know that buildings similar to ours but without the benefit of solid, insulated walls are being let for £1000 a week, peak season.

Also, with the weak pound and British families cutting back on foreign trips, it is not only Pontins who are forecasting a 10% increase in Summer bookings. Here is what Liz Hall, head of research for Hospitality and Leisure at PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Jan 9th:

“Due to the currency parity of the pound and euro, the domestic market should become stronger as more people decide to holiday in the UK, however lower margins are expected and there is likely to be a return to self-catering and campsites over hotel-based holidays.”

http://www.pwc.co.uk/eng/industries/hospitality_and_leisure_revpar_update_january_2009.html

However, with memories of the cold and wet of last Summer fresh in the minds, never mind the hard Winter, we think people will be looking for a little more comfort and something different which led us to design the Pavilion: insulated floor, solid walls, WC, insulated bedrooms (double plus bunk beds) and a sleeping/play loft for the children. Basic or luxurious fitout, rendered or timber clad walls, double glazed windows and doors and a multi-fuel stove. Take a look at the pictures and then see for yourself how this unit could extend your season and increase your income.

: Timber clad version of Pavilion

: Cosy inerior of Pavilion

The unit, together with our Canvas Lodge, will be on display until the end of March so if you would like to see this novel addition to our range of holiday accommodation please email Nina or myself to arrange a viewing. we have prepared comprehensive specification and price list so if you would like us to email you one of these please let us know. nina@vividgreen.co.uk

We look forward to seeing you.