Wolseley completes first sustainable home

Wolseley celebrated the completion of the first ‘Wolseley House’ with an official launch at BuildStore’s National Self Build & Renovation Centre in Swindon.

Forming part of the UK’s only permanent centre for self builders and renovators, the exhibition gives visitors the rare opportunity to enter a house in its construction stages and to see state-of-the-art sustainable technologies in-situ.

The project consists of a 1,500 sq ft, two-storey timber frame house and is open for visitors to explore. The Wolseley House particularly focuses on sustainable and efficient building technologies. Many of these are visible as either finished or semi-exposed products, revealing to visitors the elements required for installation.

Tim Doherty, managing director - BuildStore Building Support, commented: “We are thrilled to have Wolseley exhibiting at the Centre. As one of our key partners, we believe its offering to TradeCard members and self builders is exceptional.

“To have the products displayed in our National Self Build & Renovation Centre in this way will help the self builder to understand the benefits of working with a merchant to buy building materials.”

The different stages of the build have been documented through photography and are available to view on the dedicated Wolseley Self Build website at www.wolseleyselfbuild.co.uk

Grant Richardson, sales director – Wolseley’s heavyside division, added: “The Wolseley offering really covers all aspects of the self build programme - from site preparation to landscaping.

“The house pays particular attention to sustainable building products - demonstrating how these new technologies can be implemented in the home and provides real environmental and financial benefits to self-builders’ and renovators’ projects.”