Stainless Steel Planters by Tinpot Alley

Zintec Planters

Posted on 26, Jan

Here’s a little job that we’re currently on with at the moment. It’s for an assortment of 27 zintec planters to be painted matt black for a garden architecture firm down in London. If you’re wondering who the guy is to the left lacking a posterior, it’s Matt. They’re due to go for painting some [...]

Bespoke Stainless Steel at The Sheraton.

Posted on 24, Nov

We got these pictures sent ot us of a pair of elongated bespoke stainless steel planters we fabricated for the Sheraton Hotel down at Heathrow Airport. Here they are at either side of the foyer as you walk in. Here’s one of them from the front. Here’s one from an angle. (Although I’m sure you [...]

Premiership Plantpots

Posted on 18, Nov

Not too long ago John and myself had to deliver a house-load of tall hexagonal stainless planters to a certain footballer who currently plies his trade in the Premiership. Or, to be more exact, the reserves of a certain Premiership club. We aren’t ones to drop names into converstions like your average drunk would drop [...]

Business Blogs – The Greatest Midfielder Ever.

Posted on 7, Nov

One of the nicer things that’s been happening of late is that I can now count certain people at Butler Sheetmetal Ltd as regular Tinbasher readers. (If we’re being honest, they’re probably the only regular readers. But such is life.) Only the other day, both Deborah and John were having a gander and showed a [...]

NeedIT – You Got IT!

Posted on 31, Oct

I’ve well and truly learnt my lesson about spouting my mouth off, counting chickens and all that palava after the many disasters that have befallen mostly me to be fair. Things like: The Canary Wharf Garden Show. (Rubbish, sold bugger all and half-wrecked the hire van.) Free photo shoot in Gardeners’ World. (They took the [...]

304 Stainless Should Do.

Posted on 27, Oct

For designer stainless steel for your designer home, it has to be said that you can find all sorts over at Trendir. There’s still some life in that old stainless steel dog yet. It’s not that I have a current thing for sinks at the moment, but here’s another that’s made from 16swg 304 stainless. [...]

Some Rusty Planter Pics

Posted on 3, Oct

Do you recall how John trounced the competition alive in the Trawden Container Competition but I was unable to show you with what? Well now I can. This is the lovely little number that actually romped home in first place – not forgetting that there were only three entrants in the first place. I never [...]