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February 22, 2021

New Square-Line Range of Legs
In 2014 we started manufacturing and selling online our range of Slim-Line furniture legs. Then in 2015 we added the Regular-Line range of furniture legs. In the case of both of these ranges, the legs are round and tapered and come in 7 different lengths and 2 different timbers.
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February 8, 2021

New Pointed Fence Post Top
Late 2020 when I was visiting customers, I had a request from a client as to whether we could sell fence posts with a pointed or pyramid style top on them and a recessed or rebated groove just underneath it. They told me that they get a lot of requests for this style of post, and the only way they can do them is to send plain posts to a local work shop and get them made to order.
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January 25, 2021

Custom Timber Profile Mould
Custom timber mouldings are something that we get a call for on a regular basis, but most of them are quite small in size and therefore are relatively easy to produce. As you can see by the accompanying photos, the custom mould that we produced for this customer was certainly not small.
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January 11, 2021

DIY Round Stainless Steel Balustrade
If you are looking to build your own stainless steel handrail or balustrade, we have an extensive range of tube and matching fittings in round, square and rectangle profiles.

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December 21, 2020

Pigs Ear Handrail
We are always on the lookout for new handrail profiles to add to the range that we currently manufacture and sell through our online shop.
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December 7, 2020

80mm Timber Dowel
Recently we had an enquiry from a customer to see if we could do a timber dowel in an 80mm diameter. They had seen on our website that we manufactured a range of dowels varying in size from 13mm through to 60mm in diameter and in a selection of different timbers.
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November 23, 2020

Galvanised Pipe Fittings For A Mezzanine
It is always nice when you can sell some of your products to one of your suppliers. This was the case recently when one of our suppliers contacted us about using a heap of our galvanised pipe fittings to construct a balustrade on a mezzanine level that they were building.
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November 9, 2020

Do Exterior Timber Products Need To Be Painted?
Sometimes when you work in an industry long enough you think that an answer to a question is obvious. This is the case when we have customers ask us "Do we need to paint that?", in reference to a exterior treated timber product that they have purchased off of us.
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October 19, 2020

Gooseneck Roof Finial
Roof finials or Gable Spires (as they are also known), are something that we have been manufacturing in bulk at our factory for well over 25 years.
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