West Fraser Range Delivering Key Benefits For South-East Carpentry Company

An experienced carpenter and building site manager who has recently set up his own company is using high performance panel products from the West Fraser range   to undertake a variety of construction projects,  stretching from garden rooms and extensions to restructuring an old barn,  for clients across Surrey and Sussex. 

Sam Perry established Luxe Signature Homes in 2024  in partnership with his brother-in-law, Tobi, a Dubai-based property investor/developer and has set about establishing a reputation for high standards of workmanship as well as trying to offer homeowners innovative and inspirational solutions, which will add maximum uplift in value for the property concerned.    Importantly, the time-served carpenter who has worked on schemes varying from high volume timber frame developments to multi-million-pound mansions, has been using West Fraser  boards since the day he started work in the building industry.

Sam explains,  "While I run the technical, site operations, Tobi takes care of all the financial management and liaises with customers on matters such as how to maximise the value of their properties, drawing on his experience and contacts across the property market.  Since we set up, I've done a large extension, reconfigured a town house where the living accommodation was brought down to the ground floor and replaced by an extra bedroom, and also built a large garden room which serves as both a home office and playroom with composite deck to transform the garden itself.  The project where I'm working at present has involved me creating a 60m2 flat roof and a joist frame; and now I am back putting the roof on which involves extending the ridge out over the new space."

Although Sam is now running a burgeoning business of his own with a growing order book, like many tradesmen he started as a humble apprentice, but also got an early education in the benefits of using West Fraser board products. 

Sam recalls: "I started work at 16 in a timber frame workshop and was fixing SterlingOSB Zero sheathing on the panels and have used a lot more over the years.  We also install a lot of  CaberDek because the quality is always there and never causes us any problems.  As for the company's chipboard - CaberFloor - one of the things which sets it apart from rival brands is having the lacquer coat on both sides which avoids it flaking: it's just more durable and doesn't swell up if it gets wet in a rain-shower.  Then the accurate dimensions avoid you getting steps or creep in the tongue and groove joints during installation." "

I also like the way the peel clean finish gives you a brand-new surface once the plasterers and other trades have finished.   And I sometimes use West Fraser's  CaberShield Eco whose toughened surface gives you extra protection in the winter and allows you to get the roof on early, so other work can proceed.  Previously on the timber frame builds, we would have to install a temporary chipboard floor and then throw it in the skip - so you were basically doing the job twice."

As the UK's leading supplier of timber panel products, West Fraser offers a wide choice of precision-engineered square edge or tongue & groove boards which are selected for applications such as flooring, roofing and offsite cassette or timber frame manufacturing, for practical and economic reasons.  Additionally, although the ‘Zero' in the SterlingOSB Zero name refers to there being no added formaldehyde in the formulation, it also resonates with the brand's potential to help combat global warming.

All West Fraser panel products produced in the UK are net carbon negative and manufactured in mills that have obtained the coveted environmental ISO 14001 accreditation.  Responsibly sourced, the panels are FSC® certified (C012533) and created from locally grown timber, cutting embodied carbon from transportation. For further information, call 01786 812 921 or visit https://uk.westfraser.com/