JOB BOOK (work we do)

Workplace Showcase

Posted on 26, Sep

JOB BOOK (work we do)

It’s high time I provided a more specific category showcasing the kind of sheet metal fabrication work the boys at Butler Sheetmetal Ltd are capable of. It’s all too easy for various posts about certain jobs to get lost in the archives and I just think it might be easier if it’s all under one [...]

Bespoke Metal Outdoor Seating

Posted on 8, Jun

Here are some bespoke metal seats made from 16mm mild steel that are to be sunk into concrete and placed together somewhere in the Midlands. (I think!) Here’s the lovely John sporting one of the seats as they’re supposed to be sported before being sent to the painters. And here’s a close-up of one of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Stainless Steel Planters Are Hot!

Posted on 27, May

Quite literally. I’m not talking about everybody wanting the damn things, but about how they can dry up your root systems very easily if your stainless steel planter is basking in the sunshine. Not that it should present anyone with too much of a problem in the UK, but seeming today qualifies as a potential [...]

’2,3,4,5. We don’t want them oxidised.’

Posted on 19, May

Do you remember those large rusty planters we manufactured for an installation in the Midlands? Well there’s only been a peasant’s revolt by the residents of the housing estate they were being plonked on. Apparently, they placed one out of the six in situ and there were placards, petitions and all manner of grass roots [...]