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Advice
Need For Speed: Top Tips to Speed Up Your Build
19th August 2019
As the old phrase goes, “time is money”, and this is never truer than when you’re building, extending or renovating a property. To keep costs…
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News
Anchor’s Away! RNLI’S Renovated Lifeboat Station Almost Ready To Set Sail
15th August 2019
Since 2015, our Building Better Communities campaign has awarded over £800,000 in building materials to over 100 local building projects. This year, we will be…
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Advice
SAP Report? Want To Get It Sorted ASAP?
23rd July 2019
Completing a SAP assessment can be a tricky business. For starters you need information on all of this: U-values for walls, floors and roofs Thermal…
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News
5 Apps That Make Site Life Simpler
23rd July 2019
If there’s one thing that all trades have in common, it’s that they’re always looking for better ways to work, that make life simpler and…
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News
Using Local Bricks – A Thing of the Past?
11th July 2019
When you’re driving around the country in your van, you can’t fail to notice that the bricks used in different areas vary a lot. What…
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Past projects
Whiteley’s Retreat
3rd July 2019
Whiteleys Retreat offers short therapeutic breaks to children, young people and their families with cancer & life altering illnesses across the UK. We will…
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BOB’s 2018 summer quiz
25th July 2018
As summers go, 2018’s has been pretty stand-out so far. From epic sporting achievements, to record-breaking temperatures, the last couple of months have been eventful.…
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Jewson and Grono artificial grass partnership – a landscaper’s dream!
14th May 2012
We have recently teamed up with Grono Lawns and have invited them to write a guest post for our blog this week. Jewson, the UK’s…
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On trend: brick slips
29th May 2019
From feature walls, to exposed brickwork in shops, offices or pubs, the use of brick slips is a growing trend in the UK. But they’re…
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Part 5 – Setting up the Self Build account – Written by Gary King
1st June 2012
Welcome to Part 5 of my Self Build journey with Jewson. To start at the beginning read the first blog post. Without further ado I called…
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Past projects
Veterans’ Retreat
3rd July 2019
The building industry is similar to the military in terms of the sense of purpose, camaraderie, focus on planning and operations and realisation that risk… -
Off site
Tools out for summer: a trades’ guide to summer 2019 activities
1st July 2019
It’s made an admittedly drizzly entrance, but summer 2019 is officially here. From beer festivals to snail racing, there’s a lot going on in the…
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Past projects
Sandwick School Observatory
1st July 2019
To design and build a timber framed observatory to house a restored local made telescope. Project location Sandwick, Shetland Islands Prize Won £5,000