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Insulation Benefits Of Timber Frame
Insulation Benefits Of Timber Frame Part of the reason for the ever-growing popularity of using timber frame in construction is the insulation benefits it can provide. With insulation between studs, timber frame combines structure and thermal performance into the same...
Car Barns for Pye Homes at Woodstock
Car Barns for Pye Homes at Woodstock Car Barns for the Pye Homes development at Hill Rise, Woodstock are being built in partnership with Blenheim Estate Homes, and we’re delighted to be supplying over 40 car barn spaces, including extended bays for disabled spaces. Of...
Timber Frame vs Block Building
Timber Frame vs Block Building With the growing popularity of timber frame in the UK housebuilding – reflected in its ever-growing presence in our order bank – Head of Timber Frame, Sandeep Channa shares her expertise on the key benefits and compares it to traditional...
Cautious Optimism and Chain Reactions
Cautious Optimism and Chain Reactions The latest Home Builders Federation survey indicates cautious optimism, with many small and medium sized developers expecting to increase delivery of new housing delivery in coming months. This very much reflects our experience at...
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...
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