Cornwall Home Directory

Devoran Metals are now listed in the Cornwall Home Directory hosted by the Cornwall Home Show. Showcasing some of the best products and services available in Cornwall, you are sure to find something you love! 

You can find our profile at:

http://www.cornwallhomeshow.co.uk/cornwall-home-directory/gardens/devoran-garden-gabions/ 

Devoran Garden Gabions: Single and ready to mingle!!

From April 2014 you can now order our BBA Approved Gabion Baskets as single units on the website rather than in packs.

Up until now www.devoran-garden-gabions.co.uk supplied gabions in pack sizes of 3 or 5, but now offer customers the choice to order as little or as many as they like. The company's sales team said, "we really value our customers and want to ensure that we are giving them the best possible service on the web. We understand how competitive the current gabion market is and think that giving our customers the option of purchasing single units rather than packs will help us gain new custom and keep us at the forefront of the market".

Why buy a Devoran Gabion?

Devoran Gabions are not inferior quality imports from the Far East. These Far Eastern Gabions may be slightly cheaper but in our experi-ence you will find that you get what you pay for. Devoran Gabions are BAA Approved and are of superior strength and quality. You can feel confident that when you buy from Devoran you are buying the best.

See our hand check list below to make sure you;re buying the right product.

Future Proof Yourself Against Floods!

Live Chat

We have recently launched a NEW Chat feature on our websites.

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Our experienced sales team are now on hand on answer you questions at the simple click of a button. You can use the chat feature on your computer, tablet and smart phones. 

Give it a try...

  

Devoran Metals Love Your Garden!

Here at Devoran Metals we love nothing more than repeat custom, even more so when that customer is none other than Alan Titchmarsh. In May this year we were contacted by ITV to donate our Gabion baskets for the show "Love Your Garden"; a make over programme which completely transformed the garden of some very deserving members of the public. 

This was the second series of the show and comprised of 8 episodes. The gardens belonged to people who  had experienced very difficult times and are deserving of the gift of a new garden to enjoy. In all cases though out the series, the stories behind the families involved are truly heartbreaking but inspirational. 

The show focused on 8 families throughout the country, one of which belonging to a lady who runs a charity to raise funds for children with the same serious health condition, Sickle Cell Disease, that affects her own 16 year old Son. Without question we happily donated a range of 5mm Galfan Coated Gabion Baskets for the project and the results were stunning! The construction team on the project, The Outdoor Room who are responsible for numerous award-winning Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Show garden builds, really did a wonderful job. You can see the results below:

Gabions provide a low-tech but stylish solution to create retaining walls.

The stone used in this project is natural Purbeck stone, quarried and prepared by Suttle on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, Southern England.

Devoran Metals supplied 975mm x 450mm x 450mm & 450mm x 450mm x 450mm Gabion Baskets in 5mm wire.

To browse or buy our gabions online, visit http://www.devoran-garden-gabions.co.uk/. Prices start from £11 + VAT.

Great Gabions!

At Devoran Metals we don’t just supply our high quality gabions in the South West, we send them nationwide and we have received some great feedback and project updates from our customers. We never fail to be impressed by our customers’ ability to transform an area with our gabions combined with their imagination.

An example of this can be seen in the following picture taken by our customer Glynis of her new patio, featuring gabion seating which also doubles as a low retaining wall supporting a number of terraced planting beds. When her new patio was put in, the local crazy paving stone from the old patio was kept and recycled to fill the gabion baskets and gave the whole feature a really smart look, as well as saving on the cost of filling them and reducing waste.

 This gabion wall was created by Jacqueline who needed to replace a crumbling dry stone wall that retained a high bank next to the house. Again, she has recycled the old stone that was taken from the crumbling wall to fill the gabions. Jacqueline said to us it is ‘a great example of what an inexperienced builder can do’.

This impressive gabion feature wall is retaining a large embankment where a new build house was built into the side of a hill. It looks really smart and also provides an effective solution as an alternative to a reinforced concrete wall.

Here you can see where a stream was scouring away the end of a customer’s garden, so they used gabion baskets built on a base of gabion mattresses for stability, to stop further erosion to the garden and therefore enabling the client to regain the use of their back garden. Gabions and gabion mattresses are a great solution in this kind of situation and they are frequently used to construct flood defences due to their inherent strength and versatility.  

This fabulous garden patio seating shows our gabions in a new light! They don’t just look great when built up to form a wall; they can be a practical and attractive addition to any garden. Here they have been filled with round stones and topped with wood to form a bench and a seat, mixing the contemporary with a very natural feel. Our range of smaller garden gabions is ideal for this kind of project.

When designing your garden with gabions, the only limit is your own imagination. We have seen some wonderful examples of gabion use in the garden, from fire pits to fence posts, planters to patio seats. You don’t have to use stone to fill them either. If you are planning on using them as a decorative feature, why not try logs, chimney pots, glass bottles, or even shells? When filled with logs, twigs, canes and so on, they provide a home for valuable garden critters. You could even plant herbs or grasses in the gabions and create a ‘living wall’.

If filling your gabions with stone, remember you need stone at least 100mm as the gabion mesh is 75mm x 75mm. The general rule is to allow 1.6 tonnes of stone per m³, although allow for some variance depending on how tightly you pack the stone.

Rebar Art: Oh the possibilities...

After making the 14' high tree umbrella and bird feeder for Henry Orchard & Sons, it got us thinking: what other strange and unique designs could be made out of rebar? In its natural state some people may consider rebar 'ugly', however with a little bit of imagination and a good team of master fabricators behind you (just like the ones we have here at Devoran Metals) this versatile material takes on a whole new beauty. Take a look at the examples below which I found! I think my favourite are the chairs...or maybe the coat rack.... or maybe the planter...actually I can't decide, I love them all!!   

Love the idea of painting rebar!! Wonder how our customers would feel if we painted all their orders pink, hmmmm....

These pieces would look great in any garden, not too sure about that huge spider though...Scary!!

If you have any ideas email us at sales@devoran-metals.co.uk for a quotation

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/

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/