London Stone New Showroom

I wanted to follow up on London Stones recent announcement about opening up our second showroom in Kent. We have been searching for a second showroom for the last 2 years. We came really close to getting one this time last year but we had a change of heart on the location. This location in Kent is really appealing to us for a couple of reasons. One is the garden centre itself. Its a very professionally run garden centre and after in depth discussions with the owners we felt that they shared our business values and our visions for the future. Also, although London have a great online presence all across London and the home counties we did not have a great physical presence in the South East.

Here are a couple of photos of Cooling garden centre

We are in the process of finalizing the design and we are planning to start construction of the new showroom at the beginning of March. We planning to have 2 distinct areas. One are will display all of our Sawn Paving & Bespoke items. The second area will display our range of slate, limestone and Sandstone Paving.

Once we begin construction I am going to try and write a blog detailing the progress. Its going be a big ask to get the showroom open in time for the 1st April, but there is nothing like a fixed deadline too focus the mind :)

"Plus it doesn't matter if we all know plants are better value. I'd make the point of this to the customer but if they want trough grown at the extra cost that's their choice I'd just do it"

"I've done 5ft Thorne troughs. Very easy to plant just got a mini digger dug the trench then drop them in couldn't be easier however £250 per m does seem expensive. "

Thought I'd sign up to this forum. And I hope I'm allowed to post stuff for sale on here as this will be a one off? I have for sale a tiny pro robot, it's not the new edition but it's the bigger one of the two. If anyone is interested then please…

Comments

stephen murray-cook February 12, 2013 at 7:43pm

good luck with it steve punters like to see and touch the stone you have the two sides of london covered big tip clean displays every two weeks and keep to easy point or instarmac gun point or top end two part expoxy
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Mick Gammage February 12, 2013 at 8:37pm

Good luck with the 1st April deadline Steve, it looks a very nice place
Steve London Stone February 12, 2013 at 10:14pm

Cheers cookie and mick
I just tested out a sweep in cement based product. We tested it out on granite setts, but I'm going to try it on some sawn paving soon. That's the acid test
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Mick Gammage February 12, 2013 at 11:48pm

do you not mean you will need acid to get it off the surface of the sawn paving :)
Steve London Stone February 13, 2013 at 9:38am

I'll tell you in a couple of days Mick :)