Summer Houses For Sale

It appears to be easy to buy a wooden summer house for your garden. Just take a look on the internet to see a building which takes your fancy in the design you are looking for and find the best price – easy peasy! Well – NO!

This is because there is such a large range of garden summer houses available with questionable quality. You need to be careful to ensure you are not disappointed

Take a little time and read through the following tips and be prepared before taking your decision to buy a new building for your home.

1st Choice Garden Summer Buildings – are All UK Made to Very High Standards and Quality.

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A company which has been established a long time is the right choice. You can be reasonably sure that they have gained a great deal of expertise in the market.

More importantly, by being in business for a long time, they have listened to their customers. You will find the better-established companies do have ‘bricks and mortar’ sites for viewing and their website is just a tool to inform the public of their range of products.

These companies also tend to employ staff who you can talk to (just like in days gone by – how quaint, but charming) and advise you on what will be best for you. Most ‘web site only’ firms expect you to communicate through the modern wonder of email, which is OK but will never ‘actually’ beat talking to a person.

1st Choice was established in 1979. There is a physical office where you can talk to us – face to face.

Toughened Glass Throughout

Summer buildings, made properly and from quality timber are heavy, so putting them together is hard work. Some people like the challenge and the satisfaction of doing it themselves, but getting the experts in is the best way to ensure they are assembled correctly. You will find that cheap summer houses are made in lots of small sections, which are easier to move about, but are more flimsy that buildings made in single sections.

This will save you a lot of hard work and will ensure that your new designed summerhouse has been erected correctly. Let someone else do the donkey work and just enjoy the end result.

1st Choice offers a Free Installation Service. Don’t risk building just being dumped in your garden!

Made To Suit Your Needs

The internet is a fantastic tool for seeing what is available. It can be straightforward to purchase a summer house for your garden online sitting at home. With just a few clicks you can have made a decision, paid for a new building and before you know it your new garden building will on its way! However, moving in haste may make you repent at leisure!

There are many summer house UK manufacturers out there selling sub-quality buildings online, and this is where trouble can occur. Your new sunroom will have to stand up to the full force of our British weather, and any shortcomings in the materials used will expose it. So how can you tell?

With the internet, with its flashy web pages and, possibly if you are lucky, a glossy brochure you can never really know what your proposed summer house will be like in ‘real-life’. This is why it’s crucial, BEFORE delivery, to try to view any potential summer building. This will ensure that you can see and check for yourself how well it’s been made, that there is enough height inside and you can see that the doors and windows are solidly built (and not nasty, cheap and flimsy).

As well as that you can check what quality of timber which has been used. It’s claimed by many summer house firms, who only operate on the ‘web’, that it’s best to buy online and that you can save money. However, it’s never possible to be sure what you will get. You need to be VERY wary if they are not prepared to let you see their buildings beforehand. It’s a fact that the best value building is not always the cheapest one.

We have a large summer house UK show site near Guildford and Farnham in Surrey not far from the M25. We would love to show you our huge range of buildings which are all erected and ready to view. We have over 80 buildings on display, one of the largest collection of timber summer houses designs on display in the UK! We employ expert staff who will guide you through the buying process with no pressure. We are a simple and honest family business so come and see us. You will be very welcome.

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It’s possible that you can save money by selecting one of these cheaper summer houses, but you do need to ensure that only the best and correct materials are used in your new building.

This means only using timber which comes from the colder parts of Europe such as Sweden, Norway, Finland, where it grows very slowly. This cold weather means it has the highest density ensuring it remains very stable even in varying weather.

The BBC asks the question ‘Could wooden buildings be a solution to climate change?’ They claim that carbon would be drawn from the air when utilising timber buildings and would entrap it within the structures of our homes and offices – with many seeing as the future of architecture. Strong words but potentially very probable. Climatesummer.Org was following this path back in 2007

The so-called inexpensive summer houses for sale are made using faster-growing cheaper whitewood trees, meaning it is likely to have more movement in your garden. Which is not right in the long run. But using timber can be seen to be better than other unsuitable, environmentally damaging materials.

1st Choice Sun Rooms are made using slow-growing Redwood Deal timber.

Insist on Toughened Glass

You will find the better tongue and groove summerhouses have toughened glass as standard.

To cut costs, the cheaper buildings will use horticultural glass (which is in essence – seconds) or worse still, plastic. This is ‘second-grade’ glass, and you will generally be able to see defects in it. Away from the busy activity, it can be just about OK but on buildings which are being used regularly is it not better not to take any chances?

If horticultural glass smashes, it breaks into jagged pieces, and you certainly would not want your children or grandchildren getting hurt. Horticultural glass does reduce the cost of the building but is it worth the risk? However, the better summerhouse manufacturers will, as standard, be using toughened glass and will be an excellent choice as well as peace of mind.

1st Choice Wooden Summer Houses have toughened glass windows and doors.

Summer Rooms to Enhance Your Garden

There is an advantage to buying standard sizes and designs are it can help to keep the cost down. However what happens if you don’t like where the windows and doors are then you would be out of luck?

This is why it’s good to talk to a timber building company who can make your building with a choice of summer house designs to suit you. It may be more expensive, but the extra cost can make the difference between putting up with what’s available or getting the best possible building for your garden.

Don’t regret saving a few pounds and compromising on the potential enjoyment of your new building.

1st Choice Bespoke Houses can be made in more or less any size or style to suit you.

Stylish and Delightful Summer Houses

I find it amazing that any company would consider supplying a building not finished but there are some factories which will do so. Unbelievable! These cheap summerhouse manufacturers supply panels or floors which need to be cut by you. This saves money but means more work for you and the possibility of mistakes. Always ensure that all the panels are supplied cut to shape and size.

Ensure that all the gable and shaped ends are cut to size. Some cheap outdoor summer house manufacturers offering summer houses for sale supply shaped ends which need to be cut by you. This saves a little money but means more work for you and the possibility of mistakes.

Do you really want to take the risk doing this? Also, if the manufacturer is trying to save a few pounds here what else might he be trying to save money on? Why not consider a corner summer house if you have a smaller garden?

All Summer Buildings from 1st Choice have pre-cut panels.

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The advantage of long-standing businesses is that they share good advice about buying summer buildings. This helps you to make the correct decision for you. You will find they will always offer advice which they have gleaned over many, many years and never forget that you may be in the market for another building later in the future.

Take a look these Buying Advice Pages to give you further insights as to what you should look out for.

The key to buying a wood summer house or even a garden workshop is to ensure you do your homework, ensure you know who you are dealing with as well as trying to get the best value building for your home. And at face value, this is not always the lowest price.

We, being a family business, have been involved in the manufacture of quality timber summer houses for sale since 1979 when Robin started his first production unit. Craig, Robin’s son, joined in 1990 and trained at Guildford College in joinery. For over 20 years we ran one of the largest UK wooden building companies in the south of England.

We made the conscious decision to only deal with quality materials which we knew would last the test of time. This ethos probably comes from our upbringing. Robin’s father and grandfather were Master Butchers in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire and Quality and Customer Service were always crucial in their businesses.

Craig is a key member of the business and is helping 1st Choice to embrace the challenges of the 21st century. With his two children Daniel and Rebecca, the future looks very promising. As you can see we are not just salespeople selling a range of products, we know nothing about. We have the history behind us to ensure that when you choose ‘1st Choice’, then your summer houses will be ‘1st Choice.

Choose us if you are interested in a new traditional, modern, contemporary, large or small summer building designed for your home. Whether it’s for sitting out in the garden on a sunny day or for using it as a recreation area, hobby room or somewhere to store your leisure equipment and gardening supplies. You can even find a corner summerhouse, if you have an unused corner in your garden, in the extensive range on offer on our 1st Choice Leisure Buildings web site.

A summerhouse with installation is one of the things you should be looking for and, to save you time and money, we will assemble free of charge. These buildings are ideally suited to any size of the back garden. They can be used for leisure or professional use to suit the needs of you all our buildings. From insulated sunrooms to wooden summerhouses and can be entirely bespoke. Why settle for anything less? We always strive to ensure we are your 1st Choice for your garden buildings.

• 1/ Measure the size of your summer building. Check the height of the walls, measure the roof area, and take the dimensions of the floor if you want to insulate it
• 2/ There are several methods of insulating the building – i.e. fibreglass type, insulating a shed with polystyrene, or foam insulation sheets – so decide which one will be best for you.
• 3/ Contact your local builder’s merchants or maybe B&Q and order the required insulation
• 4/ To insulate the garden building walls you will need to cut the insulation to size. And this will fit in between the walls, and you then need to tack into place.
• 5/ Using plywood, hardboard or T&G timber boards you would then need to cover the walls.
• 6/ It’s similar when insulating the summer building’s roof – i.e. cut the selected insulation to size for the roof, polystyrene is my recommendation, as this can be cut slightly oversize so it can be wedged into place
• 7/ Line the roof with hardboard or plywood. Screwing these roof sheets is recommended into place so it can be removed if need be.
• 8/ The final thing to do with the roof is to cover the joints in the roof and wall panels with covering fascia strips. This ensures you are insulating of your summerhouse or hut has a tidy cosmetic finish
• 9/ How to insulate the summerhouse floor – You will need to fit insulation in between the floor joist and tack into place before assembling it.
• 10 Alternately, buy a summerhouse designed with insulation already fitted in place. This will be a bit more costly, but the easiest option. See our full range of insulated summer buildings on this page.

The outdoor summer house for your garden is traditionally enjoyed through the warmer months, possibly being used a storage place through the winter. How about being able to use it all year round? By investing a little more and having your luxury summer house insulated, you can use this wonderful building all year round. Your children can be out from under your feet and can use it as their own, with their computer games, music or chilling with their friends. Mum or Dad could use it as a ‘man cave’ or ‘she den’ for their hobbies or pastimes. An insulated summerhouse design could be used as a home office for your business, and if so, the cost would be tax-deductible. A win-win situation for you!

It’s reasonably easy to insulate a summerhouse in the UK if you have semi-reasonable DIY skills. You would need to buy polystyrene or fibreglass insulation and then cut this and fit it in between the internal framework. The fibreglass insulation will need tacking into place to stop it moving before you fix the inner skin. This can be plywood, hardboard (which you can get with an attractive veneer on it) or even T&G boarding. This is OK for the walls, but the roof can be a little tricky. You need to get the insulation in place, often with gravity working against you. This makes fitting the inner skin fiddly. You would need 2 or 3 people to do the roof. After you have completed that it would also be a good idea to use cover strips over the joins to finish it off.

We can supply insulation for all of our Platinum summer houses for sale to suit your requirements. The walls and roofs can be lined and insulated, enabling you to benefit from all-year-round use. We normally use a Kingspan insulation which is a solid composition with foil backing. There is a range of different internal linings. Before finishing the building, it will have internal trims fitted to ensure a smooth finish. With a choice of internal cladding, you can choose one to suit you.

All of our Platinum pages have links to the prices of the basic buildings. On the order form, you will see the cost for that particular model.On some, there is even an option to insulate the floor for even better protection from the elements. One of the most common questions is whether you can afford it. Well, if you would like to use your new garden building all year round, then it’s worth working out what this extra use is worth to you. To be able to have full use of your office or hobby room is a great asset and a little piece of calm away from our mad world.

Call us on 0800 999 6995, and we will be glad to advise for your needs.

If your building is insulated, then it will be nearly as warm as inside your house. Just like any building, during the colder spells, you will have to have some form of heating. The ideal solution is an electric heater. You can’t use a gas heater like Calor gas. Apart from the apparent flammability risk, it creates a lot of moisture which will tend to warp the timbers and cause damp. Besides keeping your new wooden summerhouse warm in the winter insulation will help to keep it cooler in the summer. This is something which not many people think about. I never used to think about it, but on our show site we had a typical summer building next to a designed insulated one, and I was checking them over.

When I went from the normal one into the insulated one, I could not believe the difference in temperature! I had to go back into the un-insulated one to check, so it’s well worth doing.

We believe that it is vital that you are given the opportunity to inspect various pressure treated summer house designs before parting with your money so we have established two easily-accessible display sites near Guildford and Farnham in Surrey which, hopefully, is not too far away where you can come and see over 100 buildings from all of our main ranges of buildings.You can browse our wooden sun rooms at your leisure without worrying about any high-pressure salesmen pouncing on you (not that we would employ that type in any case!). So if you are asking the question ‘where are summer houses for sale near me’ and you need any help then we are there to advise.

If you are looking for cheap summer houses, then you may be looking in the wrong place. But if you want great value, well made and designed to last summer buildings which will make you proud then come along and see for yourself how good they are. You won’t be sorry.

Besides optionally insulating our timber summer buildings for you all of our wooden summerhouses and wooden buildings, will be installed free of charge at the time of delivery providing there is a suitable base. And if there isn’t, don’t worry, we can build that for you too for a small extra charge. Experts in timber sun houses, wooden huts and corner summer buildings for sale. And so much more so take a small drive and come and see us.