Fibreglass supplier

Jul 02, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 7 Replies

It was back in the last century that I last needed to do a fabrication job and it was easy to get the materials ,just popped into a branch of Strand Glass and purchased what was needed. They have long gone and the nearest walk in and buy some appears to be a Halfords or Screwfix who only stock small kits at a relatively high cost. So it looks like it will be an online supplier. Any recommendations ? I don’t want to build a canoe but need to make a custom shaped water feature that will need more than a Halfords kit.



GH


I've used these people for a few years. They have a huge range of products at reasonable prices.

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My experience with the online lot has been very good.

I cannot recommend a specific one - I buy but rarely ...

No current recommendation from me, I am afraid ... but one of my childhood memories (age 12, perhaps) is being driven by my dad to Glassplies, I think it was called, near Southport. It was a big old ramshackle barn in the middle of nowhere which sold everything fibreglass-related.

We mainly went there for supplies to ... yes, build canoes, with the Scouts. They had one of those great price lists, a bit like K.R.Whiston, all typewritten & mimeographed, with loads of information about all the products they sold.

Happy days...

J^n

I went there as a child too and later (1996?) for materials to fibreglass my flat roof. They still had the through-wall extractor fan on the public side of the trade desk - metal bladed, with no guard and a notice next to it saying "Keep your bloody fingers out".

I don't specifically remember that, but sounds about right. It was a fantastic place for a curious kid to wander around. Piles of 'dangerous crap' everywhere, inside and out ...

Fakir Neejit snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

They look amazing, bookmarked, thank you.

I'll also offer East Coast Fibreglass Supplies, again good value & range, poss more old school than exotic. I got an FG roofing kit from them a while back:

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Hah. I was going to bookmark, but found I had them already from several years aqo

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