Benefits of Timber Carports, Garages and Carriage Houses

If you’re looking for a new carport, garage or carriage house you will see there is a wide range of solutions available. You want something durable but also beautiful that will be a real asset to your property as well as a useful addition.

 

Wooden construction is the perfect choice for carports, garages and carriage houses because it ticks all these boxes and more, let see why.

Top Benefits of Timber Buildings

 

Natural and Eco-Friendly Material

Building with wood gives you a non-toxic, safe material that will last. Converting wood into building timber takes only a small amount of energy when compared with other materials.

Plus, when sustainably sourced timber gives you a great eco-friendly material that’s good for the planet.

Reducing Carbon

While trees grow they draw carbon from our atmosphere and even after processing they retain that carbon keeping it out of our atmosphere. When you choose a timber garage or carport you support the use of wood as an effective building material and helping to reduce carbon levels.

Great Insulation

No one likes a freezing garage or carriage house, and this is another area where wood is superior to other materials as it is a natural insulator. Plus, a timber frame allows more space for insulation so if you’re looking to use your garage for something more than car storage you can be toasty and warm winter and cool in summer.

No limits to Design

Working with timber means that while you can have a carport or garage from an existing tried and trusted designs you can also choose something completely bespoke.

Quick to Build

It's quicker to build with timber and as time is money this makes it a much more cost-effective solution.

Easy to maintain

Timber buildings are known to last and are very easy and cheap to maintain and even update the appearance of your garage or carport over time.

 

Finding the Right Supplier

At Jon William Stables we are a UK family run business providing tried and tested timber buildings and bespoke buildings, including carports, garages and carriage houses.

Our Timber frame buildings are built by true craftsmen and we work hard to give you a finished product we are confident you will be proud to own.

When you buy a timber garage, carport or carriage house from us you get:

·         Expertise

·         Quality

·         Beautiful Design

·         Excellent Service

For more information visit our website at http://www.jonwilliamstables.co.uk

The Benefits of Equestrian Buildings

As the nights start to draw in and we approach those autumn months you might want to consider investing in Equestrian Buildings for your horses.

Ride Indoors and avoid the cold autumn winds by investing in Equestrian Buildings

Equestrian buildings can be personalised according to the needs and specifications of the customer. This gives customer the opportunity to build a structure that best meets their personal or business needs.

By choosing your own Equestrian buildings customers are more likely to find them operationally more effective and efficient. 

There are lots of variants of equestrian buildings to choose from including American Barns, Wooden Stables, Mobile Field Shelters, Mobile Stables, Static Field Shelters; not to mention unique bespoke American Barns, Stables, and Utility and timber Buildings.

Just because the nights are starting to draw in, its important  not to let the wet and windy autumn weather disrupt you and your horses exercise, Thanks to the fantastic range of bespoke and professionally constructed equestrian buildings at  Jon Williams Stables, you’re able to continue riding and training whatever the weather.

This means you’ll be able to keep your horses healthy and in great condition throughout the winter months, as well as being able to ride which will help to keep yourself fit and healthy instead of sitting indoors watching TV.

By training indoors you’re protecting both you and your horses from the hazardous winter conditions. Wind, rain and ice can prove particularly dangerous with the risk of your horses slipping so make sure you invest in a safe and practical equestrian building to help avoid all potential risks by training in a much safer, lighter and drier indoor environment.

Jon Williams Stables can provide you with quality Buildings to suit customer specifications

All equestrian buildings are built to customer specifications. When taking on a project you will be asked about features and additions you want and exactly what you need out of the building.

The Equestrian Building specialists offer you a comprehensive selection, including the opportunity to create a completely unique and bespoke project. Innovative style permeates throughout their entire range, each of which has unique features. Window designs afford ventilation rather than creating draughts. Our arbour vents allow air to circulate in the roof, reducing condensation which is better for your building and the health of your animal. It is all parts and parcel of the quality and service you would expect from Jon William Stables.

If you’re looking for a solution to protect your horses from the winter weather, as well as giving you the ability to exercise, ride and train with them undercover, get in touch with the team at Jon Williams Stables. Call 01380 850 965 today on for more information or visit the website. 

Tips for Unique Stables and Barns for Your Horses

A lot of the time your stables are going to be built according to a particular style or pattern. This definitely has advantages. It means several people can use your stables and already have an idea of how everything is laid out and arrayed. However building a unique stables for your horse not only allows you to invest yourself more into the building, but also add new features and facilities that standard designs may not allow for. So here are a handful of tips you can use to help make your stables more unique to you and your horses.

Storage

Keep your storage in the middle of the barn for objects such as feed, blankets, hay and riding equipment. Doing this allows you to reduce the amount of time it takes for people to go from individual stalls to storage, which in general makes things a lot more convenient and efficient. If you’re lucky to have a particularly large set of stables, you may even want to establish a storage area in the dead centre of the stables itself, with the stables arrayed around it.

For increased efficiency, and to truly give yourself unique stables, you can also have the storage that is accessibly from all sides. Doing so also has the advantage of reducing the temptation to leave supplies to fester at the back, using only what can be immediately accessed from the front. This not only makes your storage more time and space efficient, but also increases cost efficiency.

Another feature that can help improve your unique stables is to install a means of storing jumping poles, namely by nailing gutter brackets to the side of the wall. You can store your poles on those, keeping them in one place and off the floor.

Finally you can also store feed in plastic industrial barrels. Usually feed comes in large sacks that, while convenient to transport, do little to protect the feed from vermin or the elements. Storing it within plastic barrels will not only keep the feed in one place, but also help preserve them for longer than can be attained by feed sacks. Just make sure the barrels are cleaned out first, so as to keep them hygienic.

Stalls

Remember that your stalls are where your horses will be any time they’re not in the field, as such they should be designed for their comfort. Make sure they’re bright, airy and open, with good visibility of the surrounding stable. Horses are herd animals, and being to see horses in other stalls can help keep them contented.

There may be a temptation to make your stalls larger than usual. Try to keep control of this urge, as the larger the stall is, the more bedding you will need and the more cleaning it will need too. In general your horse only really needs enough room to move around and lay down comfortably. Anymore is simply inefficient.

For added safety, you may wish to round down the corners of any out jutting wooden frames or struts. This will stop your horses injuring themselves as they brush against them during work.

Flooring

There’s no real advantage to any particular flooring material, and each one has its own advantages and disadvantages to recommend it. In general, though, you should avoid concrete as these will injure your horses’ legs as they walk across it. Good choices are popcorn asphalt, or interlocking rubber bricks.

For more information on unique stables, or for a range of wooden stables, garages and other wooden structures, visit the website of Jon William Stables. Alternatively, call them directly by calling 01380 850 965.

Tips for Unique Stables and Barns for Your Horses

A lot of the time your stables are going to be built according to a particular style or pattern. This definitely has advantages. It means several people can use your stables and already have an idea of how everything is laid out and arrayed. However building a unique stables for your horse not only allows you to invest yourself more into the building, but also add new features and facilities that standard designs may not allow for. So here are a handful of tips you can use to help make your stables more unique to you and your horses.

Storage

Keep your storage in the middle of the barn for objects such as feed, blankets, hay and riding equipment. Doing this allows you to reduce the amount of time it takes for people to go from individual stalls to storage, which in general makes things a lot more convenient and efficient. If you’re lucky to have a particularly large set of stables, you may even want to establish a storage area in the dead centre of the stables itself, with the stables arrayed around it.

For increased efficiency, and to truly give yourself unique stables, you can also have the storage that is accessibly from all sides. Doing so also has the advantage of reducing the temptation to leave supplies to fester at the back, using only what can be immediately accessed from the front. This not only makes your storage more time and space efficient, but also increases cost efficiency.

Another feature that can help improve your unique stables is to install a means of storing jumping poles, namely by nailing gutter brackets to the side of the wall. You can store your poles on those, keeping them in one place and off the floor.

Finally you can also store feed in plastic industrial barrels. Usually feed comes in large sacks that, while convenient to transport, do little to protect the feed from vermin or the elements. Storing it within plastic barrels will not only keep the feed in one place, but also help preserve them for longer than can be attained by feed sacks. Just make sure the barrels are cleaned out first, so as to keep them hygienic.

Stalls

Remember that your stalls are where your horses will be any time they’re not in the field, as such they should be designed for their comfort. Make sure they’re bright, airy and open, with good visibility of the surrounding stable. Horses are herd animals, and being to see horses in other stalls can help keep them contented.

There may be a temptation to make your stalls larger than usual. Try to keep control of this urge, as the larger the stall is, the more bedding you will need and the more cleaning it will need too. In general your horse only really needs enough room to move around and lay down comfortably. Anymore is simply inefficient.

For added safety, you may wish to round down the corners of any out jutting wooden frames or struts. This will stop your horses injuring themselves as they brush against them during work.

Flooring

There’s no real advantage to any particular flooring material, and each one has its own advantages and disadvantages to recommend it. In general, though, you should avoid concrete as these will injure your horses’ legs as they walk across it. Good choices are popcorn asphalt, or interlocking rubber bricks.

For more information on unique stables, or for a range of wooden stables, garages and other wooden structures, visit the website of Jon William Stables. Alternatively, call them directly by calling 01380 850 965.

Choosing a Stable for your Horse

When it comes to providing a home for your horses it can be difficult knowing which one to choose with so many shelters out there, so it’s good to look at options on unique stables.

Jon Williams have been manufacturing stables since 1983 and have revamped their original designs with the help of their vets, horse trainers, equestrian champions and many other customers. This has resulted in a large number of unique timber stables which include the Intro, Ideal, Bespoke timber and Elite ranges.

Whether you need one or two stables, it’s not just stables that they can provide you with you can also  have a commercial complex with tack rooms,storage barns and offices to suit your requirements.  

Intro Range

The Intro range provides a robust stable, manufactured starting point for you stabling using the same high quality materials used in the Ideal and Elite ranges offering cheaper alternatives.

Your horse can enjoy extra ventilation with top doors that open and windows so you can air your stable.

If your horse tends to chew on the door or window frame or has other habits that prevent keeping the top door open, consider investing in a mesh door; as this will provide both ventilation and appropriate confinement.

The stable should have windows to the front and back aspects with closure facilities should the weather turn windy causing draughts. Windows are important when purchasing a stable because they give your horse more viewpoints which helps prevent boredom.

Ideal Range

The Ideal range of timber stables includes many features that are considered as optional extras by other stable manufacturers. The range offers a high specification at exceptional value. You can opt for a stable with pony doors, rear guttering, extended canopy’s or buildings with storage to suit both you and your horses or ponies.

The Elite Range

The Elite range is a build that is manufactured to the highest of design specification providing style, creativity and practicality to satisfy the most discerning of customer. The timber building features strong steel framed doors will withstand the test of time. Together with the 100mm x 50mm (4” x 2”) framework, 2.4m (8’) height and an optional feature of a felt shingle roof.

Bespoke Timber

The Bespoke range offers a state-of-the-art layout designs which include, garages, workshops, offices, chicken coups, kennels, lean-to storage units to the sides and loose boxes from 10' x 10' up to 12' x 18'. Roof designs include felt shingles, metals tiles and much more.

Jon William Stables provide a wide range of customisable equestrian stables, which can be built to specifications to suit you. For more information on the range of stables available for your horses, contact Jon William Stables today on 01380 850 965.

Carriage House Garages

In the middle of the 1800s (19^th Century), the population in Britain turned a new corner in its history. For the first time in its history, more people in Britain were living in the new cities than there were living outside the cities (according to the 1851 countrywide census). A similar landmark moment appeared in 2007, when, globally, it became apparent that there were more people living in the world’s cities that there were living outside of them in rural communities. 

This may seem insignificant, but the growth of cities across the world has created a massive shift in the way people live and interact with each other. One of factors affecting the change is the fact that people in cities live so close to each other. Originally, the first cities comprised of over-sized towns, with row upon row of terraced houses being built. Nowadays however, architects are turning to the sky for space when they build houses; the newest cities around the world are being built with skyscrapers that are mostly living accommodation. The benefit of this is that you can more people living in a very small ground area, but it still has negative implications. For example, one implication that seems to go unnoticed frequently is the inability to have a garage for most people nowadays. Many people no longer have the space to park their car on the road, let alone in a part of their own home!

Perhaps more surprisingly, some people even waste their garages, turning them into a dumping ground for unwanted items. Treasure it, fewer people are having garages than ever! However, if you’re looking to give your garage a redesign, why not turn to John William Stables, a timber construction specialist that can construct a new garage built almost entirely from high quality timber. 

The carriage housegarages that they offer are especially awesome, as they encompass a traditional carriage house with a garage. The result of this is a space large enough to park a car in, but with one end opened up, so that the car is still visible and accessible, but also protected from the elements. The carriage house garage you buy can be built to one of their own carriage house garage ranges, or to one of your own designs, giving you the opportunity to create your own personal garage that is unique to yourself. 

In their carriage house garage range, there are two categories. The Ideal category range covers the most popular timber buildings, designed with attractive, practical and robust features. The elite categoryrange is a much more prestigious range, and is concerned with the aesthetics of a beautiful timber framed building too.

Using horses as part of Emotional Therapy Programmes

Horses were originally seen as working animals, used in transportation and on the likes of farms. Given a horses size, strength and intelligence they were heavily relied upon to pull ploughs for field work and carriages for those wealthy enough to have the luxury of such transportation. Over the years, horses have been continually used as ‘working’ animals including during the war and although many no longer work in labour intensive jobs, they still have a vital role to play in some working environments – specifically horse therapy.

Horse therapy or equine assisted therapy can be used as part of a therapy treatment to help those with learning disabilities, behavioural difficulties, mental health issues and as part of rehabilitation after a severe injury. According to Equine Psychotherapy, the treatment can be used to promote emotional growth. In its basic stages, the therapy teaches how to move a horse in a calm and gentle manner as well as tacking a horse and feeding or grooming them. Little work is usually emphasised on actually riding the animal. There has been much evidence to support the benefits of equine therapy including building confidence, trust and improving social skills as well as improving communication skills and self-acceptance. Building a relationship with a horse is seen as a ‘healing process’ and with that brings great opportunities to better a person’s outlook.

As said horses are seen to be very therapeutic animals and with that have many positive effects on those who partake in such programmes. These animals are used because of their emotional intelligence. They too fear, act on instincts, change their moods and show very definite personality traits. With these characteristics, horses are able to show kindness and love as well as show fear or uncertainty in situations that they do not like. It is these changing emotions that can allow participants of such therapy treatments the chance to better understand emotional needs and how to act in specific situations.

This type of therapy has grown in interest in recent years and has picked up high acclaim for the positive effects that it can have on a person’s life. As part of the therapy, the animals need to be looked after including grooming and feeding as well as the everyday chores required when looking after a horse. American barn units could help to offer a safe environment for such interactions. These outbuildings are equipped with stable areas as well as additional space for grooming and storage space for tack and feed. American barns may help in such therapy treatments by giving a familiar and calming environment for the animal whilst offering the best facilities to participants for the best possible outcome.

For additional information on American barn out building, please speak to a member of the Jon William Stables team by calling 01380 850 965.