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

Summerhouses from Elbec.

Buy a summerhouse from Elbec and we can guarantee you a fantastic product as well as the lowest price you will find anywhere in the UK. Elbec have a summerhouse to suit anyone.

Summerhouses from Elbec come in a range of different styles. Elbec sell traditional summerhouses, as well as contemporary summerhouses. Starting from £299 you can get a 5 x 7 summerhouse from Elbec at an incredible £299 and that is the price delivered* and includes VAT.

The Lumley summerhouse includes a tongue and groove floor as well as a proper joinery double door. This has to be the best summerhouse deal in the UK today.

Require a corner summerhouse from Elbec. How about the Hampton summerhouse 8 x 8 at an incredible £539. No hidden extras either.

The Sheriff Haywood 7 x 7 summerhouse from Elbec is only £355.

These are just a few of the outstanding bargains for summerhouses from Elbec you will find.

* certain postcodes excluded from free delivery

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.

You may feel that summer is coming to an end and you would be right.

The first signs of autumn actually start during August with Swifts and the Hobby usually departing our shores during August. The leaves of certain trees in particular the beech tree will start to turn brown during August and holly berries appear in hedgerows. August is the bridge between summer and autumn and is the perfect time to get into the garden where you will still notice a mix of summer and the usual resident birds.

What better way to see in Autumn in the garden than in the 6' x 7' Shire Summerhouse Arbour.

The Shire Summerhouse arbour is pressure treated for a long life and low maintenance. The Shire Summerhouse arbour has an attractive slatted roof and with 3 solid sides providing shelter during the cooler months and shade during those hot days.

The 3 open sides with attractive ballustrades on 2 of the open sides allows you view the world outside and watch the changing of the seasons. You will be amazed the changes that happen during August and the Shire Summerhouse Arbour is just perfect to see Autumn in with. The Shire Summerhouse Arbour is of great build quality too and manufactured high quality slow grown timber from sustainable Forests of Russia and Scandinavia.

The price belies a quality product and the Shire Summerhouse Arbour is currently at an even better price than usual. Just click below for this great Shire Summerhouse Arbour offer.

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For some reason I was sitting at my desk and couldn’t think of anything within the business that begun with the letter E. Then I remembered that the actual business begins with an E. Silly.

Anyway, let’s have a brief overview of Elbec for today’s alphabet offering:
 Elbec is a company that specialises in garden buildings, supplying sheds, cabins, summerhouses, greenhouses and fencing from some of the biggest and best suppliers in the UK. We strive to offer you, the customer, the lowest possible price on these items and as a result we often have big discounts on many of our products.

We have a large selection of sheds ranging from 2x2 to 20x10 and in wood, metal and plastic varieties. So whatever you need a shed for it’s pretty safe to say that we’ll have something for you!

Another of our more popular products are our chicken and rabbit shacks.  Wide ranges are available at affordable prices and are guaranteed to keep your pets happy.

If you’re looking to add a bit of character to your garden, look no further than our arbours and arches section. With many stylish and discounted products available you’re likely to find something to impress you and all your friends. An arbour is also a nice place to sit and enjoy a relaxing drink in the sun (what’s left of it anyway!).

Garden buildings are our only area of business though, we have a sister company in the toy market, which can be found at http://www.elbectoykingdom.co.uk/index.php 

Please take the time to explore our website. Who knows, you may just find the newest addition to your garden there!

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.

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.