Unit 9 also functions as a training centre where traditional joinery skills are taught alongside fundamental design skills; often it will be the individual shape and grain of the material.
Balmore
Unit 9 at Drynoch Place receives the seasoned timber and the furniture department creates bespoke furniture or provides material for contract work. In addition to creating beautiful hand crafted furniture, Unit 9 also functions as a training centre where traditional joinery skills are taught alongside fundamental design skills; often it will be the individual shape and grain of the material which determines the design and thereafter the finished product.
The furniture created at Balmore is then displayed for sale at the Coach House Trust Shop on Gt Western Road. In 2006 Unit 10 had a 60 kw Veto stoker biomass boiler installed, which provides heat for our three workshops at Balmore Industrial Estate. In addition to providing heat for our workshops we are converting our timber drying kiln to be run from the boiler. The boiler replaces three very inefficient gas heaters (one in each workshop). The trust supplies its own fuel (in the form of woodchip) from residues of timber milling and from a short rotation coppice site that it manages. It also supplies woodchip to other biomass installations in and around the Glasgow area.
A training centre where traditional joinery skills are taught alongside fundamental design skills
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