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Luxury Car Barns – Heritage Quality Build with Integrated Renewables
Luxury Car Barns – Heritage Quality Build with Integrated Renewables Scotts, established over 100 years ago, has many strings to its bow beyond trusses, joists and panels including our bespoke buildings division. These beautiful, traditionally-built car barns, often...
How does Timber Frame Save on Build Costs?
How does Timber Frame Save on Build Costs? Timber Frame is rapidly becoming more popular for a whole host of reasons, one of which being that it can provide housebuilders with significant cost savings. Sandeep Channa, Head of Timber Frame at Scotts Timber Engineering,...
Timber Frame Garaging Solutions – Speed, Carbon and Renewable Solutions in One Choice
Timber Frame Garaging Solutions – Speed, Carbon and Renewable Solutions in One Choice Timber frame garages are fast to build and just as capable of incorporating PV, battery storage and EV charging as traditional brick garages, and the Scotts SMART GARAGE HUB can...
Building Regulations and the Safety of Structural Timber
Building Regulations and the Safety of Structural Timber When you think of timber frame as a construction method, do you think or one or two storey houses? Statutory guidance sets clearer, strong standards which set limits on the combustibility of materials used in...
Timber Carports – Practical Low Cost Solutions Including EV Charging
Carports – Practical Low Cost Solutions Including EV Charging Open fronted timber carports are becoming increasing popular as a lower cost addition to a closed garage. Have you considered that they can easily accommodate PV panels, battery storage and EV charge points...
Scaffolder Shortages
Scaffolder Shortage Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be any other hurdles blocking the path of housebuilders on the route to the near-mythical 1.5 million new homes in the course of this parliament, along comes another one. There is a shortage of...
The Role of Timber Frame
The Role of Timber Frame Timber frame is playing an increasingly significant role in new builds as housebuilders look to meet the expected requirements of the Future Homes Standard (yet to be published). You can see it wherever you’re passing a new development –...
The Scotts SMART GARAGE HUB – Innovations Housebuyers Will Thank You For.
The Scotts SMART GARAGE HUB – Innovations Housebuyers Will Thank You For. Developers are at the forefront of the drive to deliver the Net Zero dream in the housing environment, with any number of regulations already in place, and more to be included in the planned new...
Introducing David Hunt
Introducing David Hunt We’re really pleased to welcome David Hunt to Scotts Timber Engineering as Business Development Manager. With 25 years sector experience, David really does know the industry inside out and shares our love for all things timber. A carpenter by...
Carrots not sticks
Carrots, Not Sticks to get Housebuilders Building Don’t get me wrong, we get that there’s an affordability problem for first time buyers in our housing market. But I’m just not sure that encouraging people to make the biggest financial decision of their lives is going...
Pye Homes Porches and Carports
Pye Homes Porches and Carports Pye Homes are building Dashwood, part of the new Welborne Garden Village, neighbouring Dashwood Forest, Fareham and the South Downs of Hampshire and we’ve been delivering porches and carports to site for the early plots in their first...
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Light at the end of the tunnel? Do the latest business insolvency figures for the construction sector signal a pinprick of light at the end of a very long tunnel? According to the ONS, the sector headed the rest of the economy in the number of insolvencies over 2025,...
Berkeley Homes Wallingford
Berkeley Homes Wallingford Here’s some photo’s from a site visit by Ethan Johnston, from our Business Development team to a Berkeley Homes development in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Berkeley Homes is a long-standing customer of Scotts, and this site is currently in its...
Owl Homes Current Sites
Owl Homes Current Developments We’re pleased to be supporting valued long-term customer Owl Homes across two current residential developments. Loden Townsend, based at our West Midlands branch in Redditch, has been working closely with the Owl Homes team to deliver...
100,000 extra homes a year could be built with FTB Demand Support
First Time Buyer Demand Support could see 100,000 extra homes built a year Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the very definition of madness. So the continuing lack of a demand support for first time buyers remains a major barrier to growth for...
Planning your Sales Strategy for Summer 2026?
Planning your Sales Strategy for Summer 2026? If your housebuilding business is planning sales strategies for its developments over the spring and summer, Scotts may have just the thing. The art of the showhome has been finely tuned by housebuilders over the years;...
New Homes Week
New Homes Week 2026 We’d like to wish all Scotts housebuilding customers who are taking part a very successful New Homes Week 2026. New Homes Week, run by the Home Builders Federation, is an annual awareness campaign that provides a positive, unified platform for the...
Housebuilding Industry Forecasts January 2026
Housebuilding Industry Forecasts January 2026 According to the latest Construction Product Association forecasts, housebuilding this year is expected to grow between 0.4% and 4% depending on the economic factors that affect consumer and business confidence, including...
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