Vista Collection – The Hub

The Hub is the Vista building with a veranda. The roof runs out past the front wall to form a covered overhang with chrome up/down lights set under it, so you gain a sheltered strip of outdoor space that is usable in British weather and not just in July. Everything behind the doors is the full year-round specification: insulated, wired, heated and floored.

Key features

• Price includes delivery, a timber frame base, full installation and all the electrical work inside the room – connection to your house supply can be arranged at extra cost
• Covered veranda under a roof overhang — the only Vista model with sheltered outdoor space built in
• Chrome up/down external lights set under the overhang, one either side of the door
• Joinery wooden double doors, which can be positioned to the left or the right to suit your garden
• 18mm pressure-treated PTGV cladding coated with a microporous oil treatment
• A window at every size, including the smallest — unlike the studio models
• Insulated, wired, heated and floored as standard, with free full installation

Specification – included as standard

• Framing: 69mm x 44mm pressure-treated timber
• External cladding: 18mm pressure-treated PTGV boards, coated with microporous oil treatment before the building leaves the factory
• Timber treatment: preservative is forced deep into the boards under vacuum, then every piece is latted for air flow and dried down to a moisture content of 9–12%. That is what protects the timber against damp and against insect attack.
• Insulation: insulated behind a breathable membrane, with insulation rated at 0.038 W/mK thermal conductivity; the floor is insulated with Stylite EPS polystyrene insulation boards
• Internal lining: vapour barrier and insulation to all four walls and the ceiling, lined with 11mm internal boards as standard (18mm pressure-treated cladding and moisture-resistant grooved MDF panels are optional upgrades)
• Floor: grey laminate flooring over 3mm premium underlay
• Doors and windows: joinery wooden double doors, hung left or right, with one joinery fixed wooden window
• Glazing: double glazed with BS EN 1279 toughened safety glass in 14mm sealed units. If you want the heavier 28mm BS EN 12150 units, the UPVC and aluminium-glazed Vista models carry them — we are happy to talk you through the difference
• Roof: pent, with a roof overhang forming the veranda, 3mm premium underlay, a one-piece 1.1mm Firestone RubberGard EPDM rubber membrane, bonded to the deck, steel roof joist supports and UPVC roof and gutter trims
• Electrics: two chrome USB double sockets, one chrome double socket, one chrome single socket and a two-gang chrome light switch; four chrome internal IP65 ceiling spotlights; chrome up/down external lights under the overhang, one either side of the door; a two-way 18th edition RCD fuse board
• Heating: one 2000W remote-controlled, Bluetooth-enabled glass-front electric panel heater. One heater is the standard provision on every model and every size in the Vista Collection — it does not scale up with the building
• Warranty: 10-year warranty from the manufacturer
• Included in the price: delivery, a timber frame base, full installation and all the electrical work inside the room. Connection to your house’s electricity supply can be arranged at extra cost
• How we measure: sizes are shown as length x gable end, so on a 10ft x 8ft building the 8ft side is the gable end. Some other manufacturers quote sizes the other way round, so please check the layout against your space before ordering.

Optional upgrades

These are extras, not part of the standard build. Where an item is shown as quoted on request, it is priced individually — ask us and we will get you a figure.

External finish

• Composite cladding — a low-maintenance composite external finish, offered right across the size range as an alternative to the two timber finishes, external tanalised and external painted
• Painted finish from the manufacturer’s 26-colour range

Structure and interior

• Upgraded 18mm pressure-treated internal cladding, or moisture-resistant MDF panelling, primed or painted, in place of the standard 11mm untreated internal boards
• Upgraded 18mm pressure-treated floorboards in place of the standard laminate floor

Glazing and doors

• Upgrade from joinery wooden doors and windows to UPVC
• UPVC opening window — quoted on request
• French doors
• Bi-fold doors

Electrics — all of these are additional to the standard fit-out, not instead of it

• Hard-wired chrome CAT5 ethernet socket — a proper wired network point at the bottom of the garden, rather than relying on whatever the house wi-fi reaches down there
• Additional chrome USB double sockets, chrome double sockets and chrome single sockets
• External IP66 double sockets, also available with a stainless steel front
• Chrome double dimmer switch
• Additional chrome internal IP65 ceiling spotlights
• Chrome external IP65 spotlights
• Additional chrome up-down external lights

Systems and fit-out — quoted on request

• Alarm system, specified to suit you
• CCTV — a bespoke system, fully installed
• Televisions installed, including brackets and mounts (the television and the brackets are not supplied)
• Guttering

Delivery & installation – all included

The price you see covers everything needed to get your room up and working. There are no hidden extras for the essentials:

• Delivery to your home on a 3.5-tonne Luton van
• A timber frame base, built for you as part of the installation
• Full installation by the manufacturer’s own installation technicians – this is not a flat-pack
• All the electrical work inside the room – sockets, lighting, heater and fuse board, fitted and ready to go

The only thing not included is connecting the room to your house’s electricity supply. We can arrange this for you at extra cost – just ask and we will get you a price.

To help installation day go smoothly, please let us know before you order if any of these apply:

• The van can’t park within 30m (100ft) of where the room is going
• Any gate or gap along the route is narrower than 910mm (36in)
• There are steps on the way – photos help
• Anything low overhead, such as car ports or canopies
• Trees, fence posts or other obstructions where the room is going

Ask us for current lead times before you order. Full details are on our Sovereign delivery, installation and guarantee page.

Looking after it

Your building arrives with an oil treatment sealant already applied. To keep water out of the timber that sealant has to be re-applied once a year — the manufacturer also suggests twice a year, before winter and before summer, on more exposed sites. Re-oiling is the owner’s job, and it is the single thing that most affects how a timber building looks in ten years’ time. If you would rather stain than oil, wait a month or so after installation: stain only takes on dry wood. There is more in our timber building care guide.

Recommended accessories

• Protek Restol Wood Oil – for the annual re-oil

Choosing your size and finish

Pick your size and finish from the options above. There are three external finishes to choose between: tanalised as standard, painted from the manufacturer’s 26-colour range, or the composite cladding upgrade. If you want to stand next to a building before you commit, our Display Site at Buzzards Valley, Tamworth B78 3EQ is the quickest way to get a feel for size, height and finish — ring 01543 398778 and we will tell you what is on show at the moment. There is more on choosing in our garden office buyer’s guide, and you can request the Vista brochure.