New Courses for 2010
NEW
We are pleased to offer bespoke courses throughout 2010.
LOCAL WOODWORKS will come to you and deliver a wood project to suit your group or organisation.
All you need is a group of enthusiastic learners, room for up to 2 vehicles and the expectation of having lots of fun!
Our new brochure will be on line shortly but if you want to know more or make a booking please contact us as dates are already filling fast.
An example is : 8 people, 8 raised beds made from local Western Red Cedar, 2 qualified staff, all tools and equipment delivered in the place of your choice only £640 inclusive of materials.
FREE 'Container-making and Growing' Course, Contact us for new course dates in 2010
Want to plant your own garden planter?
This course will help you make your own wooden planter fill it with compost and plant bulbs ready for the spring.
ALL FREE!
This FREE course is aimed at people who are on a low income or unemployed, living in West Somerset. The course is practical and hand's-on, delivered at our well-equipped premises on Mart Road Industrial Estate in Minehead (Near Tescos). As well as making containers, you will have a chance to plant some bulbs that thrive in containers and receive advice about plant care.
Funded through Southwest Foundation's Community Grant Programme, the project will provide free 'hands on' practical wood skills training for up to sixteen people, over the age of 19 years.
Telephone 01643 707397
Want to find out more? Contact us
For your own safety protective footwear (steel toe caps) will be needed. If you do not have suitable footwear we have most sizes at our premises, but you may not be the first person to have worn them!
Solar kilns
Wood sourced from Exmoor woodlands is being dried in our solar kilns on site in Minehead. We are currently building up stocks of Western Red Cedar, Beech, Sycamore, Chestnut and Oak. By careful monitoring of the drying process we can ensure high quality timber suitable for a range of internal uses, such as floorboards, doors, windows, fire surrounds and bespoke orders. Timber ReUse is the first social enterprise in the country to have solar kilns, made possible through a grant from Exmoor National Park Sustainable Development Fund. To ensure stocks are available throughout the winter months we have also installed a de-humidifier kiln, for when the sun doesn't shine.
'Everything Exmoor'
We've added our details to the excellent website 'Everything Exmoor'. If you are wanting information on local businesses this is a great place to begin. www.EverythingExmoor.org.uk
Everything Exmoor is a free encyclopaedia, built by the community and business of Exmoor offering information on every aspect of life in the Exmoor National Park. It gathers knowledge of Exmoor in one place and signposts readers to web sites containing more detailed information.
New Deal Work Experience with 'prospects'
'prospects' is a New Deal Initiative for Unemployed Adults. Timber Re-Use provides work experience based in our well-equipped workshop and retail outlet in Minehead. Each person has a thirteen week programme of practical activities in a real working environment,together with one-day per week at 'prospects' centres across the county, learning job seeking skills.
For further details contact your nearest JobCentre and ask about New Deal for Adults.
Case Study Great Bow Wharf, Langport
MADE TO MEASURE HIGH PERFORMANCE EXTERIOR JOINERY.
As part of the renovation of the derelict warehouse and conversion into a community centre and offices for local businesses at Great Bow Wharf, Langport, Somerset, our team of highly qualified/experienced carpenters and joiners produced the windows and bespoke doors for the innovative warehouse renovation with the the ECOS Trust. We also made the outside decking from Iroko that origionally were door stiles.
Made to fit original openings, the windows have been hand crafted from reclaimed oak and hard-ware has been sourced from suppliers who have over-ordered or have cancelled orders that produces surplus stock, this traditionally would have found itself in the waste stream.
The project is undergoing continuous monitoring to produce figures that will demonstrate the business case and its positive effects on resources.
These features are essential to reduce, reuse, recycle that ECOS and ourselves believe is the way forward for a more sustainable future.
For information or enquiries regarding bespoke windows/doors made from reuse timber, contact Ian who will be happy to give you a quote
Photography by Matt Barrow
Tel: 01984 629011
