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Meet the Team: Lajos Varga
How long have you been working for Buckland and what do you do?
I’m a carpenter and I’ve been working at Buckland Timber for nearly seven years, but I’ve been a carpenter for 34 years…
The largest UK-grown glulam structure (we think)
In 2019, Tom Bedford from UK Hardwoods had the idea to build a woodshed from glulam and got in touch with us to design and manufacture the frame.
But this was not to be just any shed…
A Timelapse Tour of the Factory
One of our favourite things to do is to show customers around the factory.
As that isn’t possible right now, so we put a GoPro on a stick and went for a wander to give you a 35-second timelapse tour of our space in Devon.
The Story of William Blight
One of the founders of Buckland Timber, William Blight, officially retired in March of last year. He has a busy, wonderful and fascinating life story and career history with wood.
CLT versus Tongue & Groove
CLT versus Tongue & Groove sounds like someone who could be in line for this year’s Christmas number one.
But we’re talking mass timber panels.
Assistant Project Manager Vacancy
At Buckland Timber, we’re busier than ever.
And we’re looking for an Assistant Project Manager to help us manage the load…
Meet the Team: Antonio Savinelli
How long have you been working for Buckland and what do you do?
I’ve been working here since October 2018 and I’m a Structural Engineer. I mainly do design, reports, site surveys and technical advising…
Buying timber from Tom or Fred down the road
It feels like we’ve come full circle with locally grown timber. When we set up the business in 2012, we had the best of intentions of making all our glulam out of locally grown but at the time there only seemed to be a few customers who cared about this…
Meet the Team: Brent Dicks
How long have you been working for Buckland and what do you do?
I’ve been here for seven years, from the beginning. It started off with Robin and myself making beams, just the two of us. Now there’s 13 of us and I run the shop floor, managing all of the production from the carpentry to making the beams…
7 of the Most Unusual Glulam House Extensions That We’ve Ever Built
Building an extension is the usual way that homeowners go to add more space to their place but the way they choose to do it can be far from normal. We’ve been lucky enough to be part of the design, manufacture and build process for a few wonderfully weird glulam house extensions.