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After a long wait, we have commenced the build of our first Poachers hut. In response to a number of enquiries for an all inclusive shepherds hut with a bathroom, a kitchen, a log burner and a bed, we have put together our new design which elegantly combines all of these features into an 18 foot hut. The aim was to keep the hut spacious inside and nothing like a caravan! We started with the wheels and the chassis. As the picture above shows, these are far bigger and chunkier than our standard hut wheels. We wanted something hearty and robust which would reflect the hardy nature of our huts! The chassis is made of reinforced steel, with a hardened steel fixed axle- this hut is really being built to pass the test of time! With our standard 16ft huts weighing in around 1.8 tonnes, our Poachers will be our heaviest yet at 2.1 tonnes. Keep your eye on this hut, as we reckon it'll be our best yet! We've got a trio of Poachers Shepherds Huts going out to Godwick Great Barn in the next few months where they'll be available as luxury wedding accommodation- So get proposing!
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We’re finally here! After months of deliberating where would be the ideal place to expand, we finally discovered that our ideal workshop was literally (Literally literally, not figuratively) around the corner from our old place, and roughly fifty metres away (That’s about ten shepherd huts laid end-to-end). At two and a half times the size of our old unit, this workshop can have as many as four huts under construction at once! There is ample room for huts under construction and for finished huts to be stored before delivery, and a much larger carpentry area with twice as many benches. Not only that, but we’ve got a dust-free storeroom for paints, fittings and supplies. And finally we’ve got a nice, tidy office to Combobulate in! Complete with our own hand made desks.
With a busy build schedule for the next few months, we’re now taking orders for summer/early autumn. Our phone number is still 01603 397777, but our new address is Unit 3, Liberator Close, Rackheath Industrial Estate, Norwich, NR13 6PR. If you’d like to get your Shepherds Hut in for the summer, get in touch for a place in our order book! Not sure why, but December often seems to be the month when we get celebrity orders! With last December's order book being filled out with Shepherds Huts for author Andrew Clover and actress Elizabeth Hurley, we were delighted to receive a last minute order from BBC Radio 4 Presenter and writer Libby Purves. After a few meetings and a site meeting, it was apparent that we wouldn't be able to actually get a hut into her garden- There simply wasn't enough access! Never the sort to back down, we build our first "flat pack" hut in the workshop, to be carried into Libby's garden piecemeal and assembled in situ. As the location was a fair distance from our workshop, we booked a holiday cottage and spent the next week building the hut- Our first ever "Boys on tour" week! |
