3 More Green Roofs Last Week
June 8th, 2011Last week was an extremely busy week – isn’t every week!
We started the week down in Lewes in Sussex, installing a green roof on a spectacular timber framed house for Norbuild Eco Houses who were project managing the build.
The house had a half slated and half green roof. We installed a fully grown green roof system on the 15 degree pitched roof and a planted on site system on the flat roofed area. By combining these two green roofing systems we were able to deliver the green roof within the client’s budget and everyone was delighted.
At the beginning of last week we also received a phone call from Brydenwood, a construction company based in Farringdon, central London, who wanted a green roof installing on a primary school in Sittingbourne, later the same week! As always we were up for the challenge, and dually dispatched a team of 4 who successfully installed the green roof on Borden Village Pre-school in just one day. I’m sure all the children will be delighted with their new environmentally friendly roof.
Sheffield Apartments June 2011
We finished the week completing a green roof on an apartment block in Sheffield, so we have certainly got about a bit last week.
I must say, the amount of repeat business we are securing at the moment is astonishing. It is extremely gratifying to know that our past and present customer are so pleased with the quality of our plants, the professional advice we provide and the excellent customer service we always strive to deliver.
Finally, we are all enjoying seeing our green roof on Spring Watch every week day at the moment, if you haven’t managed to catch it yet, it is on BBC2, Monday – Thursday for the next few weeks.
Bio-Diverse Roof for Fordhall Farm Shop in Shropshire
May 20th, 2011Sedum Supply recently installed a fabulous bio diverse green roof on a new far shop at Fordhall Farm Shop is on the outskirts of Market Drayton in North Shropshire.
When Sedum Supply initially visited Fordhall Farm Shop, at the request of their contractors Shingler Homes, they were looking for a Sedum Green Roof, however after we explained the benefits of our new bio-diverse roofs they respecified it as a bio-diverse roof, as their primary aim was to attract and support the local bird and insect populations.
Biodiverse roofs are becoming increasingly popular in the UK. They are particularly beneficial where the importance of creating an environment to support local bird, plant and insect life is a key motivating factor. Our Biodiverse roofs try as closely as possible to include native plants and seeds specific to your geographic environment together with natural materials to create a truly diverse (and definitely not uniform) environment.
Fordhall Farm is an organic farm and from the farm shop they sell Fordhall Beef, Lamb and Gloucester Old Spot Pork, their our own dry cured bacon, pork sausages, free range organic eggs, fresh locally grown vegetables, Shropshire honey, jams, organic ice cream and organic speciality cheeses.
The farm shop is really worth a visit if you are in the area.
Farm Shop and Farm Trail Opening Times:-
- Wednesday 11am-4pm
- Friday 11am-6pm
- Saturday & Sunday 11am-4pm
Sedum Supply Green Roof on Springwatch
May 20th, 2011
Installing the Springwatch Green Roof
After our fame on Grand Designs and This Morning we are delighted to be able to add to our TV portfolio, having just completed a sedum green roof for this year’s BBC Springwatch at RSPB reserve Ynys-hir in Ceredigion in Mid Wales.
As always with TV, this was no mean feat as we were asked to provide and install the roof with just 2 days notice and once on site we waterproofed the roof and installed a fully grown green roof in just one day!
The roof has been installed on a converted tractor building which is being used to house the Spring Watch team and we used a Fully Grown Sedum Roof Pack – to ensure that the sedum looked good immediately – ready for the imminent filming.
The sedum came from our own Powys Sedum Plantation, so the road miles were kept to a minimum and it looked amazing when it was fully laid.
There will be plenty of chances to see the sedum over the coming weeks, Springwatch starts on Monday 30th May and runs Monday – Thursday at 8pm on BBC2 for 6 weeks. Or why not visit Ynys-hir to see our roof for yourselves.
The New Springwatch Studio
Sedum Supply setting the standards
October 11th, 2010Copycat companies have recently forced us to register our trademarks. Recently we have stumbled upon a number of companies who appear to have used our prices as a benchmark across the board, we have also found that whilst they can copy our pricing structure which is available for all to see, they cannot replicate our products. For instance one company who were discovered with our sedum photographs all over their website (and subsequently asked to remove them!) only have a limited number of sedum varieties and other companies also on the band wagon cannot supply our unlimited array of roofing products, one of our main competitors also supplied ‘dead’ sedum turf when we purchased some to check out the competition and they claimed to be the best growers in Europe, they also refused to refund us or send more when we sent them pictures of their poor product. Please be cautious who you choose to buy from, they can try to emulate our profile but could never match our 32 years of expertise, a 10 minute conversation will separate the wheat from the chaff! So, if in doubt pick up the phone. Its been hard work recently, there aren’t enough hours in the day, what with Darren away all weekend at Grand Designs Live and Karen setting up the new fields for spring, blogging has been neglected, sorry! But I will post images of recent projects as soon as I get the chance…..On a more positive note, the landscape here is stunning, the leaves are beginning to turn, the fruit has been picked and were thoroughly excited for our first Autumn in the beautiful mid Wales countryside (I saw my first polecat the other day), so i will log off now and get back outside.
Our latest green roof projects with pictures
September 27th, 2010Life has been pretty flat out at Sedum Supply recently with little time to blog. So finally here is an update on some of our recent projects.
Green Roof on Prestigious new London House
The last week has been taken up installing a sedum roof on £2.7 million new house in London. The property was 4 stories
Green Roof on Prestigious London House
Green Roof in Longridge Holiday Home
We have also just finished installing a green roof on the first of 12 holiday homes in Longridge, Lancashire. Brothers David and Richard Rainford visited us in Chorley to view our sedum and said it was the best quality sedum they had viewed. They were also impressed that we could advise on design and supply waterproofing materials so in the end we worked on all aspects of the job from design, waterproofing, flashing and trims and sedum installation.
They are so delighted with the end result that they are going to modify the roof design on the remaining houses to incorporate more even sedum.
Longridge Holiday Home
Grand Designs Update
This project is coming along well and we are going to spend much of the next 1 ½ weeks working on it. I have a to camera interview coming up on Wednesday and there is a very interesting story line has developed – so it will definitely be worthwhile watching when it is aired. We expect it to go live later on this year and as soon as we have a final date we will let you know – watch this space!
Glyndwr University, Wrexham
In the last month we have also completed a green roof on Glyndwyr University in Wrexham. This is the first project we have completed with Prelasti and we supplied, delivered and helped install 1200 m squared of high quality sedum.
Wrexham University Green Roof
Leeds University 
Green Roofs - Sedum Supply 
Green Roofs - Sedum Supply 