Add the beauty of marble

& granite to your home...

Come and visit Anything Stone for
friendly service and expert advice.
We have an extensive range of stone
slabs available to view in our stock
yard.
See granite and marble being cut and
nished in our on-site factory that
supplies stone to many of the UKs
best kitchen & bathroom studios.
Tel: 01793 695110
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm
www.anythingstone.co.uk
Specialists in
the supply of
Oak Beams,
Pressure
Impregnated
Timber,
Fencing
Materials,
Sawn Timbers
& Garden
Furniture
Log store in
solid pressure
treated timber
made to
measure.
Stroud Road, Cirencester
GL7 6LA
01285 652191
www.haileywoodsawmill.co.uk
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Revamp your kitchen space
THE kitchen has been liber-
ated. It is no longer just a func-
tional place in which to cook
and clean. Today, the kitchen
is an important space with
beautiful furniture and innova-
tive features. It is the heart of
the house, a meeting point. It is
a place in which to create and
entertain. Many households
spend much of their time in
their kitchen space and more
are now investing in making this
the showcase of their home.
Granite and quartz worktops
are now widely used and com-
plement both traditional style
hand-painted cabinetry and
todays modern flat fronted
gloss doors. The current trends
include bringing texture to both
work-surfaces and the surfaces
of doors and dcor panels and
also sleek 12mm quartz work-
surfaces combined with han-
dle-less cabinets and drawer
fronts.
Anything Stone in Swindon
work with many of the UKs fin-
est kitchen designers, and also
open the doors of their granite
factory to the public, to enable
them to buy granite and quartz
work-surfaces directly.
They offer an experienced
design and installation ser-
vice along with a 15-year
sealed for life warranty on all
natural stone work-surfaces,
making them easy to maintain.
Call them on 01793 695110 to
arrange a visit.
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Wood Sawmill has plenty of bark and bite
AN OLD-FASHIONED sawmill tucked
away in the woods near Cirencester is
proud to offer a friendly service to anyone
who visits.
Hailey Wood Sawmill, based just on the
edge of the Bathurst Estate woodlands,
off the A419 between Cirencester and
Stroud, is managed by Ian Elphick and
Mark Gooding.
Between them, they have more than 60
years of experience in the industry and of-
fer a warm welcome to both trade custom-
ers and the general public.
Specialising in cutting oak beams, lintels
and untreated and treated softwood to
customers requirements, Hailey Wood is
proud of their team of highly skilled crafts-
men who specialise in creating bespoke
items and will deliver to anywhere within a
50-mile radius.
Customers can browse our large stock
of fencing materials in the yard or order
gates, picnic tables, garden furniture and
much more.
For more information please check out
the website at www.haileywoodsawmill.
co.uk or alternatively you can telephone
01285 652191.
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Renewable scheme could save you
HOW much money could you save on
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The domestic Renewable-Heat-In-
centive (RHI) scheme is available to
homeowners, social/private landlords,
as well as people who build their own
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The RHI is designed to reduce the non-
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There are four eco-friendly technolo-
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Time to hedge your bets
PLANTING a hedge is an invest-
ment that will bring years of
benefit and autumn is one of the
best times for planting shrubs
and trees.The soil conditions
tend to be right for establish-
ing new plants and the slowed
growth rates of most plants re-
sult in them being in optimum
condition for being moved. Its
also a great time for starting a
new project, like establishing a
hedge.
The glories of the summer gar-
den are past now and you can
move about without disturbing
beautiful displays. Hedges offer
all the benefits of hard bounda-
ries, with a few more thrown in
for good measure. Not only do
they demarcate your property
and provide privacy, choose the
right plants and they will be-
come prickly, intruder-proof
barriers that might even result
in a reduced home insurance
premium. New ideas for hedg-
ing this autumn include using
Berberis thunbergii and Ilex
aquifolium (holly) to create
beautiful, interesting and effec-
tive boundaries. Both offer the
prickly benefits that intruders
hate and insurers love. Both pro-
vide flowers in spring/summer
and are berry-bearing, which
offers additional visual interest.
The berberis is deciduous, and
will respond well to pruning into
tidy shapes, if thats the kind of
hedge you want. The leaves of
Berberis thunbergii come in a
range of colours from bronze,
red-purple, to yellow, depending
on variety. It will do well in al-
most any situation or soil and its
dense habit and compact growth
make it ideal for hedging. Ilex
aquifolium is evergreen, which
brings the benefits of year-round
foliage. Its very hardy and great
for winter interest.
Its easy and fun to establish
a new hedge and the rewards
come quickly. Many retailers
now sell hedging packs where
youll make a saving per plant
from the multiple purchase. Buy
sufficient to put a plant every
40-60cm (depending on species/
variety and size when planting)
along the line of the hedge. Mark
out the desired line of the hedge
and cultivate the soil, improving
it with organic matter as you do
so. Water-in new plants as neces-
sary.
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