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Anyone who works in the timber industry understands one universal truth – timber and rain do not mix well together.

Even treated timber, if stored outside for any length of time, will go through successive cycles of getting wet and drying out again, and will eventually succumb to shrinkage, bowing and warping, making it all but useless.

A mezzanine floor is essentially a raised platform within a building that has a high ground floor ceiling, commonly found in shops and warehouses. Mezzanine floors can be used across a range of industries for a huge variety of purposes,...

Mike Farrall, who brings more than 20 years’ experience of mezzanine flooring to the business, will cover an area from the Thames to the south coast, south London, and west as far as Portsmouth.

He joins Richard Coombs in the region, who covers the area to the north of the Thames.

With a shortage of warehouse space in the UK, many builders merchants are struggling to find new, suitable sites to facility expansion.

Whereas the large multiples have the option of buying up smaller players to realise growth, or commissioning new builds, the situation has the potential to stem growth for smaller to medium-sized merchants.

Correctly utilising shop shelving can have a significant impact on the increase of sales, getting it wrong can leave you in the position of seeing potential customers walk out empty-handed. Here at Filstorage, we have experts across the country to...

As featured in Builders Merchant Journal June 2023 (p24-25). Over the past three decades, Filstorage Ltd has become synonymous with racking, supplying the majority of the UK’s top builders’ merchants.

DESIGN and fitout specialist Filstorage has helped a well-known Scottish builders merchant sail to victory at a top industry awards event.

GPH Builders’ Merchants Ltd won Lightside Showroom of the Year at last year’s Builders’ Merchants Awards after completing a full refurb of its Inverurie showroom.