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On television

Carpenter Oak & Woodland has featured on television many times, including several appearances on popular programmes such as Grand Designs and Build, Buy or Restore.

Televsion programmes

Under The Hammer

BBC · October 2006

In Under The Hammer, presenters Martin Roberts and Lucy Alexander uncover the tricks of the property auction trade. In this programme they return to a property, the Sanctuary in Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, originally shown last year – but now substantially restored.

Build, Buy or Restore

Discovery Real Time · October 2006

The Discovery Real Time programme takes couple Andrew and Vanessa through the options of either finding a plot to build on, a property to buy or a run down home for renovation.

Leonardo’s Dream Machines

Channel 4 · October 2005

The world’s leading experts boldly attempt to build, for the first time ever, two of Leonardo da Vinci’s machines to the exact specifications that he designed 500 years ago.

Points West – The world’s biggest trebuchet

BBC · May 2005

The BBC local news programme, Points West, documents the construction of the world’s biggest trebuchet in our English timber framing yard.

Grand Designs – the oak-framed house in Argyll

Channel 4 · July 2004

Tony and Jo Moffat, both musicians with Scottish Opera, have long held a dream of a home in the countryside. They found a perfect site on the Clyde estuary in Argyll and Bute.

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