Update

Friday 19^th November 2010

Craggan Scout and Guide Hut

The A team arrived with the sectional 9.8m x 5m 19mm Apex build. Unloaded and left M Wilson Builders to finish their base work. Due to the unfortunate weather conditions Mike and Mikey were behind on their original plans and were battling against the wind, rain and frost. Not the easiest of jobs in any case but when your waters frozen, your concrete ain’t mixing!

Fortunately with the help of ‘THE DOM’ Mike managed to complete his base in the nick of time. The base will be left to set over the weekend and then the A team will return to erect the build on Tuesday of next week.

Make a Wish Tree House.

A customer who had been granted her son’s wish from Make a Wish Foundation approached us earlier this year with the idea of her son’s dream. Grant decided to make something very special for this young lad. Hopefully I'll be able to put pictures up at the begining of next week.

Grant Niall and John started the complex base work on Wednesday and they’ll be finishing up today. ‘Mum’ requested that the actual building is not to be erected until Monday, as to make sure the surprise is kept secret until complete.

We will hopefully have some cracking pictures taken by our in house photographer John, for you on Monday.

Movember

This week seen the start of the bail outs...Tut tut... Dean and Sam reluctant to take their ribbons of manhood any further took a razor to them earlier this week. Thankfully all is not lost; Dom and Gordy are sporting rather manly, fashionable, 70’s style ribbons.  Duncy babes and Niall, on the other hand are still trying at least. Dom forgot to shave last night so pictures to follow on Monday!

GILLIES AND MACKAY DOES MOVEMBER

Tragically, one man dies every hour from prostate cancer in the U.K.

The 'Mo', slang for moustache, and November come together each year for Movember.

''Each Movember we challenge men to change their appearance and the face of men's health by growing a moustache. The moustache is our ribbon, the means by which we raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, our commitment is to grow a moustache for 30 days. Funds raised benefit The Prostate Cancer Charity.''

- uk.movember.com -

Gillies and Mackay Ltd are 'taking part' in the Movember Awareness Fundraiser.

If you would like to donate or take part please visit http://www.uk.movember.com/

Wednesday 10th was the end of their first week, so not much growth yet. We are hoping they'll take better shape over the next couple of weeks.

CHIRSTMAS CRAFT VILLAGE

Afternoon everyone!

I have Just finished making a poster for Na'ans Crafty Village, have a look!  

Hello everyone,

I apologise for not posting last week, our office was very busy. I will however, make up for it this week. So what’s been happening? We’ve flown an outhouse out to Fidra, a wee Island off the east coast.

Fidra Outhouse  

The Outhouse was flown out to Fidra lighthouse to be used as an accommodation hut for men working there temporarily. The building had to be built with a marine plywood exterior to withstand the elements. It had to be constructed in sections no bigger than 8' x 4' (2.4m x 1.2m) firstly, as this was the biggest size the helicoper could cope with lifting from ship to lighthouse rock and secondly, so that the same building can easily be dismantled and reassembled on other sites once the work at Fidra is complete.

Here is some feedback from the project manager:
'Here are a couple of pictures. The finished product couldn’t be better and all have admired it. Thanks, Grant and all involved in its manufacture'.

Next week we will be erecting 5 Garages at Strathallan School, I'll hopefully have pictures and Information for you by Friday.  

Again if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

see you all on Friday!

GO DOM!

Dom, part 3 of the 'A' team hangs up his Hi Vis and Estwing hammer for the luxuries of the workshop. With the loving touch from Gordy 'The Chief', he'll be making top notch sheds before we know it! GO DOM!

Nice Week For Ducks

Hi everyone,

Despite the rain the 'A' team are in high spirits. At the end of last week they finished a gorgeous lined and insulated cabin. Unfortunately, John, our in house photographer, wasn't able to get pictures of the end result. This was due to the tight space the building was positioned in. However I do have the original AutoCad drawings, which the building was made from.

Construction

5.35m x 4.25m Cabin constructed in 19mm thick tongue and groove Redwood weatherboard, breather membrane, 95mm x 45mm timber frame, 19mm thick tongue and groove Redwood flooring, 15mm tongue and groove sarking and Icopal Bitumen shingles with underlay.

There were 5 fixed double glazed panes, a set of morticed framed double doors and it was also lined with 14mm redwood weatherboard and insulated with 70mm Celotex throughout.

This week they have been busy with normal deliveries and are starting a lined and insulated Summerhouse on Friday, so I hope to get that one blogged up next week.

If you would like to know more about this build or any others, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Bye for now Sheddy's!

10m x 3m Shed Custom Design

Afternoon everyone,

Apologies for the late post, techincal difficulties shall we say!

Dom, John and Ali had a busy start to the week, last week. They were assembling a 10m x 3m Shed in Blairgowrie. The boys managed to complete their build in 1 and a half days. Very impressive!

The building was made to our usual Heavy Duty specification, 19mm thick tongue and groove redwood weatherboard, 70mm x 38mm pressure treated frame, 19mm tongue and groove flooring, 16mm sarking and green mineralised Polyflex roofing felt.

There is also a 3m veranda, canopy attached to the building. The 4m x 3m area has an insulated floor.
The customer decided to fit his own windows at a later date.

Below is a floor plan and 3 suspect pictures, John isn't the best photographer unfortunately.

All in all a great success. Please note the boys did tidy up before they left! If you would like to know anything else about this build, for example the costs involved, please do not hesitate to contact me.

We are at another big build this week, which is fully lined and insulated and double glazed so check up on Friday for my new post!