Visit our eBay Gabion Shop!

Devoran Metals now have a Gabion store on eBay where you can buy single gabions rather than packs of 5. They are proving to be very popular with the eBay community. They can be sent by courier or pallet (depending on total size & weight) and are generally delivered to your door within 2-3 working days.


Head on over and take a look!

Devoran Metals show a 'hole' lotta love for the Phoenix Stroke Appeal

When there's a Charity Golf Day on, you may expect that Devoran would be supporting it by sending our MD Richard up to it to hit a few balls, score a few birdies and maybe sink a few pints at the 19th hole, but when the details came through to us about the Phoenix Stroke Appeal event at Killiow Golf Club in Truro we went a step further and sponsored a hole!
The Phoenix Stroke Appeal is BBC Radio Cornwall's dedicated charity. They aim to raise £500,000 to help stroke survivors in Cornwall. It looks like the event was a great success and the sun came out to shine on all the participants! We wish BBC Cornwall every success in hitting their £500,000 target.

Phoenix Stroke Appeal
http://www.rcht.nhs.uk/RoyalCornwallHospitalsTrust/WorkingWithUs/FundraisingAndVolunteers/Appeals/Appeals.aspx

Killiow Golf Club
http://www.killiowgolf.co.uk/

BBC Radio Cornwall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocornwall/programmes

Devoran Metals Ltd
http://www.devoran-metals.co.uk/
http://www.devoran-garden-gabions.co.uk/

Even Alan Titchmarsh loves Devoran Garden Gabions!

Here at Devoran Metals we received an interesting call from the production team at ITV's 'Alan Titchmarsh Show'. They had seen our gabion website and were interested in using them for an upcoming feature on recycling and upcycling household goods. The focus was on the office and our gabions were used to store files and to provide a stand for a scanner.

We had never seen them used in this way before but it certainly gave us food for thought. We've seen gabions used outdoors filled with all sorts of items from the regular stone fill to wine bottles, plant pots and shells, but the idea of using them indoors had never occured to us. So it seems the possibilities really are endless!

Wonder if we could replace our office counter with a funky gabion wall? Now that would be eyecatching!

To browse or buy our gabions online, visit http://www.devoran-garden-gabions.co.uk/

Is Your Site Ready For Winter?

Here at Devoran Metals Ltd we are stocking up on goods to help you prepare your site for what the winter may have in store for us! Rock salt and frost blankets will be on the shelf available to collect or you can call us to arrange delivery. BRRRRRILLIANT!

A Devoran structure hits the TV screens!

A steel structure made by Devoran Metals was spotted on BBC2's Natural World programme last week. Heligan:Secrets of the Lost Gardens focused on the vast array of wildlife that calls Heligan home.

Seconds into the documentary we noticed the spectacular apple arch that we made for Heligan back in January. The structure was made from mild steel bars which were cut and bent by Devoran staff in our workshop and then delivered to site to be fabricated by our sub-contracted welder Alan.
The arch replaced a previous version which had become too small for the numerous visitors, especially when in full bloom. The new wider and taller arch will soon be covered in apple branches, just like the original one was.



To watch the show on the BBC iPlayer please follow the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b013nhmg/

The Heligan Gardens blog can be found here http://lostgardensofheligan.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html

For more information on rebar and fabrication go to http://www.devoran-metals.co.uk/

Not just one way to fill a gabion...

Thought you could only fill a gabion basket with bulky, heavy stone? Think again....

Recently we have seen some great examples of gabion use and novel ways to fill them. Some of our garden gabions were sold to two garden designers for use in their display at Ecobuild 2011.

Jacquetta Menzies and Catherine Thomas used plant pots, fir cones, logs, twigs and turf to create interesting and visually appealing gabions for their stand. Jacquetta said "we packed the gabions with different materials. We had intended to use all Grassfelt but it was too heavy so we improvised. We had many enquiries about the gabions."

Jacquetta and Catherine's garden design work can be seen on their websites:

http://www.jacquettamenzies.co.uk/

http://www.catherinethomas.co.uk/

Our lorry driver Trevor Cornwell also spotted a great gabion display whilst out cycling the Camel Trail one weekend. The gabion clad Camel Trail Gateway Building (designed by CSA Architects) 'is created from gabion baskets filled with local materials representing the Camel Trail and its historic connections to the mining industry, including locally quarried natural stones, locally collected shells, bottles from the nearby Camel Valley vineyard and internal metal workings of old trams.'

Trevor took some close up photos of the gabions to show us all back in the office. We think it looks great!

Further information and photographs of this project can be found at www.csa-architects.co.uk/projects/leisure/camel-trail-gateway-wadebridge.htm

Gabions can be purchased through our online shop at www.devoran-garden-gabions.co.uk

Prefabricated Reinforcement gets RNAS Culdrose accommodation off to a flying start!

Devoran Metals Ltd have supplied a number of prefabricated pad reinforcement cages as part of a 5 year MOD building project at RNAS Culdrose in Helston.

The MOD's Project SLAM (Single Living Accommodation Modernisation) will deliver 3,800 new-build, single living bed spaces as well as shared living and kitchen areas for service people across the country.

The steel cages were cut, bent and prefabricated by Devoran Metals then delivered to Raymond Brown Construction Ltd on site at RNAS Culdrose saving a great deal of time, space and money.

Devoran Metals can supply prefabricated steel reinforcement for projects nationwide. Visit our website for more details. http://www.devoran-metals.co.uk/steel-prefrabricated.html