2009 was a poor year with the UK construction industry as a whole having been hit very hard by the recession. As well as commercial cuts in spending on development and building projects, homeowners also tightened their belts and purse strings so companies catering for both commercial and domestic customers could not even rely on the other half of their market to provide a positive.
After seeing a decline in profits in 2009, although 2010 isn’t likely to provide a miracle cure to make up for last year’s reduction in revenue, paving firm Marshalls are beginning to see a turn in the market for 2010 compared to this time last year. Marshalls, who have just been recognised as a 2010 Business Superbrand for their strength as a B2B brand, receive 60% of their revenue from commercial, public sector and corporate customers and 40% of sales as generated by sales to residential homeowners.
Marshalls supply a range of paving and driveway products and both functional and decorative items to enhance gardens, including walling materials, paving, greenhouses, summerhouses, garages and products to assist with water management in your garden. Their range of hard landscaping materials is produced with commitment to quality products, with the Marshalls group including a number of prominent brands including Classical Flagstones, supplying stone flooring and flagging in both contemporary and traditional ranges, Compton concrete garages, Alton cedar greenhouses and Robinsons aluminium greenhouses. In addition to the companies that are part of the Marshalls group, the paving and hard landscaping firm also supplies garden furniture and planters, outdoor lighting and stone benches and a range of garden gates.
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If you’ve decided you want to lay a new patio to enhance your garden or outdoor area, or perhaps you want to change the slabs in your yard or terrace, the first step is deciding on the location for your patio. Once you’ve planned your patio area however you can start to make preparations to begin laying your new paved seating area.
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There are a number of things to consider when laying a new patio in your garden, yard or outdoor area. You may think that the most important decision you need to make is the type of paving slabs you should have that will compliment the rest of your garden design or the other features in your garden, but a number of other things should be given thought before you begin to lay a new patio.
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Although winter is in full force many home owners are now turning their thoughts towards the inevitable thaw and the endless possibilities of improving the home and garden that springs brings. It is this time of year that people begin to think about the driveway and the possibility of renewing the tarmac or paving.
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A Bristol paving company and its director misled Portishead residents over the past year for the cost of paving their driveways. Trading standard officers were called to five different residents in connection with work that had been carried out at their homes in various parts of Bristol.
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Most people in England consider their home to be their castle and Britain is known as a nation of people that take pride in their homes. Moving house can seem like a good idea at the time, but even the most perfect home will likely present you with a list containing a multitude of essential jobs to be done. Often it seems like an endless task, as when one job is completed, another needs doing. Freshly painted walls in your living room or a new bathroom suite make the bedroom look shabby; changing the colour scheme to suit your furniture and style spur you on to fit new carpets or flooring, and so it continues.
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With current government figures stating that one in every six English homes are under threat of flooding and rising, it has never being a better time to look at your current homes flooding defences. The most obvious first line of defence is your path or driveway, and more importantly that the drainage is correct. Read more…
Tarmac was invented for the convenience of the motor vehicle user to pound the roads of the busy U.K. and make it easier for cars to hit top speeds on their travels with no road hazards like bumps and holes. Today more and more people are choosing to have their drives made a showpiece by adding fashionable concrete such as patterns and imprinted designs of their choice into their frontage of their home. The designs are now so intricate that you can have colours in stone such as tangerine; yellow, polished black and the shapes can be circular, hexagonal, brick and pretty much to your own liking. The outcome of these designs is a pleasant welcome to your return home from work and a way of displaying your home as a prized possession. Patterned driveways do come at a cost so it does make sense to get it right first time. Read more…
