Elbec Delivery Information


The majority of deliveries are free to most UK mainland postcodes. Please ask one of our sales team on delivery pricing for you area before placing your order if you are unsure (contact us on 0844 8466640).


Sheriff Sheds
£19.99 - BT, LL, PA, SA, SY and TR
£29.99 - AB, IV, I - 32 and 36 - 63, KW1-14, PH and the Republic of Ireland
£49.99 - IV34- 38, the Isle of Wight and Isle of Man
£49.99- Mainland Port Drop Only to the Channel Islands, Orkney Islands and Isle of Bute

Shire Sheds
£20.00 - SA, LD, LL, SY3
£20.00 - E, EC, N, NW. SE, SE, SW, W, WC, Truro TR
£20.00 - DG, EH, FK, G,TD, KA exc 27+28, KY, ML, PA1-19
£80.00 - PH and DD
£90.00 - AB10-25 +30-56, IV, KW 1-14 only



Sheriff Summerhouses
£19.99 - BT, LL, PA, SA, SY and TR
£29.99 - AB, IV, I - 32 and 36 - 63, KW1-14, PH and the Republic of Ireland
£49.99 - IV34- 38, the Isle of Wight and Isle of Man
£49.99- Mainland Port Drop Only to the Channel Islands, Orkney Islands and Isle of Bute

Shire Summerhouses
£20.00 - LL 32-77, SA, SY and TR
£30.00 - AB 10-25 and AB30-56, KW 1-14, PA 1-19, PH1-7 and PH14
£55.00 - IV3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 30, 31, 32, 33



Sheriff Log Cabins
£19.99 - BT, LL, PA, SA, SY and TR
£29.99 - AB, IV, I - 32 and 36 - 63, KW1-14, PH and the Republic of Ireland
£49.99 - IV34- 38, the Isle of Wight and Isle of Man
£49.99- Mainland Port Drop Only to the Channel Islands, Orkney Islands and Isle of Bute

Shire Log Cabins
£350.00 - CA, E, EC, NE, PL, SY, TQ, TR, W, WC
£350.00 - DG, LD, LL32-77, SA, SY
£375.00 - EH, FK, G, KY, ML, TD
Selected Sheriff products also have a 48 hour or Saturday delivery options. This service is only available to the following postcodes and costs an extra £20:

AL, B, BD, CB, CV, DE, DN, DY, HD, HX, LE, LS, LU, MK, NG, NN, S, SG, SS, WS, WV


As I said before, a lot of the information is there, but if you have any queries please don’t hesitate to check the website (http://www.elbecgardenbuildings.co.uk) or contact us on 0844 8466640.

Elbec Product Overview


At Elbec Garden Buildings we sell a lot of different products that each come with different variations. I thought I’d just run through a quick list of our main products and their varieties.


Sheds
•    Wooden Sheds – Sizes from 2x2 to 20x10
•    Metal Sheds – Sizes from 5x2 to 10x13
•    Plastic Sheds – Sizes from 5x3 to 10x13

Summerhouses
•    Sizes from 6x4 to 20x8

Log Cabins
•    Sizes from 7x7 to 20x16

Arches

Arbours
•    Standard Arbours
•    Summerhouse Arbours
•    Swing Seat Arbours

Gazebos
•    Standard Gazebo
•    Thatched Gazebo – Sizes from 2.8m to 3.8m diameter

Pergodas

Greenhouses
•    Lean-to Greenhouses – Sizes from 2x4 to 8x20
•    Polycarbonate Greenhouses – Sizes from 4x2 to 8x14   
•    Glasshouses

Fencing
•    3ft high
•    4ft high
•    5ft high
•    6ft high

Pet Store
•    Poultry Houses
•    Rabbit Hutches
•    Rabbit Runs
•    Hamster Cages
•    Vivariums
•    Kennels
•    Catteries
•    Aviaries and Bird Tables

August Bank Holiday is just around the corner and a well earned rest is on its way. Don’t rest too much though as now is a time to pick up fantastic bargains for your garden. VAT and Timber price increases will put paid to the current low prices. Fancy a shed then Elbec have a fantastic range covering all sizes and all budgets. Even our lowest priced sheds are of great quality. Choose from apex roof sheds or pent sheds. Sheds constructed with overlap cladding where you can pick up a huge shed at a low price.

One of the best buys has to be the 6' x 4' Sheriff Shiplap Apex Garden Shed which is actually cheaper than the equivalent overlap. Don’t miss this great shed offer if it is a compact shed you are after. Those you want lots of storage space at a low price look no further than the 16' x 6' (approx) Shire Harris Apex Double Door Shed at an unbelievable price.

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Looking for a summerhouse. You have found the right place. Elbec believe we sell the cheapest summerhouse in the UK. It may be the cheapest but the quality is great with a tongue and groove floor. So check out the Shire Lumley. Fancy something a bit bigger. Well take a look at the Shire 8 x 8 Corner Summerhouse selling at the lowest price in the UK.

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But hurry these offers are due to end 31 August.

Assembly Now available on Most Elbec Garden Buildings.

Buying a garden building be it a shed or summerhouse or maybe a log cabin is a great project. First a new garden building will enhance your garden and secondly if you like to keep yourself busy then what better way than to build a shed, summerhouse or log cabin.

You may just be replacing an old shed or summerhouse, maybe you have moved house and would like a brand shed or summerhouse. If you are diy minded and you don’t have to be to build a shed or summerhouse, then you will gain an immense amount of satisfaction from seeing the finished shed or summerhouse.

If you are not very good at diy, ie like me then you can still get involved by enlisting some help to build your shed or summerhouse. Maybe a friend or a relative or maybe a good neighbour or even the family. This way you will find it easier and again at the end you have a shed or a summerhouse that you have built yourself and with it great memories of how you assembled that shed or summerhouse.

If you have neither the time or the inclination then great news for you, we at Elbec can offer you assembly with your building on all our Shire, Sheriff, Harrison sheds and summerhouses.

If there isn’t a price for assembly on these sheds or summerhouses simply call us on our free phone number and we will give you the price for assembly of your new shed or summerhouse.

Tongue and Groove Floor versus an  OSB Floor

Which type of floor is best for your Garden shed or summerhouse. Tongue and Groove or OSB.

Tongue and Groove floors for your Garden Shed or summerhouse do look much nicer than an OSB floor in your Garden Shed or summerhouse.

If you use your Garden shed or summerhouse regularly your floor will become almost black with dirt, so eventually your attractive tongue and groove floor will look pretty much like the equivalent OSB one in your Garden Shed or Summerhouse.

Walk on a Tongue and Groove floor in your Garden shed and it may tend to bounce a little especially if floor bearers under the Garden Shed floor are few and far between.

The OSB floor in your Garden shed or summerhouse feels much sturdier when walking on it and is probably better for storing heavier items in your Garden Shed.

Your Garden Shed or summerhouse tongue and Groove floor should last for years even if it gets wet. Your OSB one will too unless it becomes saturated with water. Although OSB is water resistant if it gets very wet it will deteriorate. The OSB being inside your garden shed or summerhouse the problems of being wet should not be an issue.

If you really do not like the appearance of OSB in your Garden shed or Summerhouse, it does paint very well or you could cover it will another flooring material.

So which should you go for. In our opinion go for OSB if the Garden Shed or summerhouse is cheaper than the equivalent tongue and Floor.

You will enjoy an instant cash saving and it will last just as long as your tongue and groove one provided it stays dry.

When is a Great time to Buy  A Shed?

Buying a shed now is as good a time as any time to buy a shed. Elbec have some fantastic shed deals. Our shed deals cover a wide range of sheds and all shed sizes.

Looking for a 6 x 4 shed then consider our 6 x 4 Sheriff shiplap at an amazingly low price

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Its actually at a lower price than our overlap shed. Remember A Shiplap shed is better and usually more expensive than an overlap shed.

How about an 8 x 6 shed? You cant go wrong with this fantastic Sheriff Platinum Shed

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A Great spec shed with tongue and groove floor and roof.

Want a larger Shed, then try the 10 x 6 Melrose Tongue and Groove Shed for something a bit different. The stable door is great for ventilating the shed in hot weather but also to prevent the little ones exploring the shed.

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Probably the UKs  best deal is the 16 x 6 Shire Harris Garden Shed

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An amazing amount of shed space for less than £500.

Treat your self today with one of Elbecs fantastic bargains and remember delivery is free to most areas.

What happens to your wooden shed or summerhouse in a hot summer?

Timber is a natural product and will expand in wet or damp conditions when it absorbs moisture. This moisture then evaporates in warm and dry conditions.

It is Spring and you have just built your lovely new shed, which you are very proud of. The shed sits proudly in the garden with its gleaming new cost of wood protector.

You visit the shed everyday, like a child with a new toy, and you are particulary pleased with the shed as it is a shed you have assembled with your own hands.

The hot weather comes so you take the bbq out of the shed as well as the garden furniture stored in the shed.


Sitting one weekend in your lovely new recliner with a glass of wine in one hand or a glass of beer in the other admiring your lovely shed, clank! you drop your glass of wine or beer as you suddenly realise a big gap in the side wall of your shed. £$%^^% you cry and run into the shed to examine it inside. You are suddenly sweating buckets. Crikey it is hot in this shed then you rush out of the shed again for some fresh air.


My lovely new shed it is ruined. Whoa hang on here, lets look at what has happened to your shed. You have taken your garden furniture out of the shed to enjoy the great weather. You mow the lawn less and less as the grass is too dry to grow. There is no need to be using your tools from the shed as it is too hot.


So you have no reason to enter your shed for a week or so. The shed windows are closed tight, the shed door is shut and it is hot outside the shed. The inside of your shed is becoming hotter and hotter, probably well over 120F when the sun is at its highest point. It is like an oven inside your shed. The moisture from the timber is rapidly evaporating. The shed timber is starting to shrink. This is actually what happens to timber. Have you ever noticed inside your home that sometimes your doors become difficult to close during the winter months, but open very easily during the summer months. This is down to the timber expanding with moisture content and contracting when the moisture content evaporates. The same thing happens to your shed.

So how do I stop this happening to my shed? When it becomes very hot, open a shed window or shed door, to help get air inside the shed, therefore keeping the inside temperature of the shed down.

This seems a strange one but it works. Put a bucket of water inside the shed so the timber takes in moisture again. This will prevent excess shrinkage of the shed timber. Most shed manufaturers kiln dry their timber before manufacture, but nevertheless on those damp drys it is nigh on impossible to prevent timbers becoming damp.

Your shed is not ruined though. The shed boards will usually expand back into place once the wet damp weather returns.

Remember it is timber, it expands and shrinks naturally, tolerances are built into the shed when manufacturing them, but sometimes the hot weather can push those tolerances over and beyond its limits.  It is not a manufacturing fault but just the way timber reacts to the British weather.

So that’s it for another 4 years then; the 2010 World Cup is over and wives and girlfriends across the country can finally have the TV back from their partners!

Although the football feast has finished, you still have a great opportunity to get a piece of the world in your back garden, because here at Elbec we’re still offering fencing, summerhouses and pergolas with themes from all corners of the globe.

Take for example our European fencing styles. We are currently selling 3 attractive types of Euro fencing that would be sure to make an impression in any garden: Milano, Cerca and Venice. These are all available to order through our new, easy to use fencing order system on the website.

Another garden building guaranteed to add character is the Oriental Pergola. Whilst they weren’t too well represented in the football, this product will bring a flavour of East Asia to your back garden that will stand out from the crowd.

Our summerhouse range contains some high quality traditional English models, like the Westminster, Chatsworth or Kensington. Great discounts on great summerhouses that will dazzle your garden a lot more than our players did in South Africa.

If you don’t fancy any of those there is still bound to be something for you, be it arbours, arches, fencing, cabins or greenhouses, and that’s just naming a few of the products we have on sale. What’s more, most garden buildings come with huge discounts of up to nearly £1000! What are you waiting for?!

It’s snowing outside, its cold, the ground is frozen, why on earth would I want to order a shed or a summerhouse now.

Well actually it is the best time to buy a shed or summerhouse. Elbec have already been advised by the shed manufacturers that as timber prices have shot up in the last year and they will no longer have any alternative but to pass the timber price rises onto to the retailers. Elbec will try and absorb as much as we can by keeping prices of sheds and summerhouses as low as possible but unfortunately prices of sheds and summerhouses, actually all garden buildings will have to go up.

The price rise is imminent therefore if you want to save yourself a lot of hard earned money then now is the time to buy a shed or summerhouse. The amount you save will be worth far more than any interest that you are likely to receive from your bank or building society.

More and more people think about their gardens as the days get longer and spring is round the corner. It is amazing how many customers decide to buy their shed or summerhouse or log cabin at the same time just before Easter or spring.

The distribution system becomes extremely busy and sometimes the delivery of your shed may become delayed due to the sheer numbers of deliveries expected within a short timeframe.

Buy in January and you will get a speedy delivery and you will buy at the best possible price and the best possible quality shed or summerhouse at the lowest price. Delay and you will still get a speedy delivery but unfortunately you will have to pay that bit more for your shed or summerhouse and more so for those good quality sheds and summerhouses which use the best timber.

Elbecs prices for sheds and summerhouses are still at the 2009 level, so we advise don’t delay buy your shed or summerhouse now and you will grab yourself a bargain.

Contacting elbec

Elbec are proud of the service we give to customers.

Although we strive for everyone of our customers to be more than delighted with a product bought from elbec; we do realise that from time to time the odd customer may be disappointed.

We allow our customers to contact us in a variety of ways ,

•    by email to customercare@ elbec. co.uk
•    telephone Elbec on 0844 84 666 40
•    by fax to 0115 961 37 60

Emails do take priority over all other forms of communication and we will reply to all emails within one working day.

Elbec will do all they can to put right a problem. Has your shed arrived damaged; we will send you all replacements to put it right. Although email is the preferred choice of communication we do make ourselves available for you to speak to someone in person from a member of our trained customer care team during the working week.

If you have bought from Elbec a shed, summerhouse, log cabin or greenhouse or indeed any other product from Elbec you can rest assured that there will be someone there to help you with after sales.

Please see below just some of the comments from our many satisfied customers



"Just a quick note to thankyou for our summer house,which arrived at 9.30 this morning,We are very pleased with it, the quality is very good. We hope to use it alot this summer so lets hope its a good summer

Many thanks "

"Tracey

Shed arrived last week. Thank you for all your help.

Tim "

"THANKYOU FOR MY CHICKEN SHACK CHICKEN RUN ,IT WAS DELIVERED PROMPTLY AND WELL PACKED.IT IS OF VERY GOOD QUALITY AND WELL MADE.I AM VERY HAPPY WITH MY ORDER,THANKING YOU ,MRS .P.DOWNER."

"Marilyn thank you so much for your attention to my comments, I wasn't looking for replacements but that is fantastic! 
 
I can honestly say that your customer service is excellent!
 
Thank you again!
 
Richard"

"Congratulations on a prompt delivery. We are delighted with the " Shack" which fantastically well packed, beautifully made and finished. It went together nice and simply, the guide pegs making the whole process really easy- single handed !
Many thanks.
Gordon
Chichester"

"Hi Marilyn
 
Thanks for the reply. Its been a pleasure doing business with you. I would recommend you company to anyone, your customer service has been great.  Makes a nice change in this day and age.
 
regards
 
Jeanne"

"Our Elite greenhouse, supplied by Elbec, was fitted today by John. Really pleased with both product and fitter, many thanks.
Regards
Linda"

"Just to inform you that as you promised these replacement items duly arrived yesterday.

Many thanks for all the trouble you (Elbec) have gone to with regard to these items, it’s very much appreciated. It is not often these days that you find a company that invests time & people in their customer care dept, a very well done to you all.

I shall most certainly be using Elbec again in the future and will, of course, be recommending you to friends and family.

Again many thanks.

Robert "

"Dear Customer Care Team,

I would just like to say thank you for the service you provided in terms of way your customer care lady helped and kept me informed of my delvery and when I had a problem with some wood that was missing from my Decking Kit.

All issues was resolved quickly with no hassle and the basis of the way you dealt with my enquiry I shall certainly will recommeded your service to my firends and family.

On a last note the decking went together well and looks good.

kind Regards

Terry Harris"

"just writing to say what a fantastic service and how pleased we were with the easy assembly the instructions were very easy to follow thankyou once again mrs kay Isle of Islay"

"Would you please thank dawn for the efficient manner with which she dealt with chasing this item for me.

I received a telephone call from the carrier this morning, followed by a call from elbec, and the Summerhouse is being delivered on Friday 30th May.

It was a pleasure dealing with your company especially as you have an excellent customer service, and answered  my queries so promptly.

If only all Customer Services were as efficient as yours there would be a lot more satisfied customers.

Many Thanks once again, I'm sure my grandchildren will get a great deal of pleasure out of the Summerhouse.

You have made 2 Grandchildren and one Nanna very happy. !!

Thank you both once again.
sincerely
Joan "

"Dear Elbec, thanks for prompt reply and fitting instruction attachment, I have been very happy with your service, will recommend and def' use you again, well done.
Many thanks,
Peter "

"The arch arrived today and I would like to congratulate you on the efficiency of your company. It was a nice surprise as I thought it would take much longer to come. Thank you and well done . yours sincerely Moira."



"Thank you so much for your help, I wish everyone was as helpful as you have been.
 
Take care
 
Brett"

"Hi,

Thank you for the update, it's good to deal with a company thats take the time to keep it's customers informed, I will recommend you to others.

Adrian "

"Thank you so much for your endless support! I wish everyone was as polite and helpful as you have been...You are a credit to customer services.
 
Thanks again
Elaine"

"Good Morning

Many thanks for the quick delivery of my order. The couriers arrived as expected on the pre arranged date and time frame. More importantly, I was impressed with the product and overwhelmed with the packaging - obviously a quality product. The instructions were easy to follow and I was able to erect the shed (with the help of my 11 year old son) with ease in 3 days.

Many thanks again and I shall be recommending your services to friends and colleagues

Best wishes

Ian"

"My sincere apologies, upon closer inspection the instructions and fixings were inside a plastic bag hidden by some wood.
 
All parts are present and correct.
 
Many thanks again for your help with this it looks like a great shed once I erect it.
 
I would recommend the service that you at elbec have provided, keep up the good work
 
Regards John"

"Just a note to say Thank You. We have been told that our shed will be
drlivered on Friday.   We are very impressed with your customer service and
have already spoken to family and friends about you.   Thanks again. C.
Wellman"

"Just to let you know that the order arrived today(weds) around 4o'clock. Many thanks to Annette and Craig for their help. I am very pleased with the customer service and prompt delivery from your company.
Regards
Joanne"

"Comments: AFTER RECENTLY PURCHASING YOUR 8X6 METAL SHED, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT IT IS A FANTASTIC SHED FOR A GREAT PRICE AND YOU SERVICE WAS GREAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ROBERT"