North Shore Timber & Hardware opens in Erina

ONE OF SYDNEY’S leading timber merchants, North Shore Timber & Hardware, will open their new warehouse at Erina in August. It is constructed out of 100% Australian timber.They where previously operating from a warehouse at West Gosford.

Director Jim Forrester said that the opportunity arose three years ago to acquire the Erina site, which has greater visibility and is located closer to the areas of the Coast that have a need for their custom style of operation.

NST have been operating a sales office at Lisarow and a temporary holding yard at Somersby since moving from West Gosford in May 2022.

The Erina warehouse, on The Entrance Road, is constructed of 100% Australian engineered cross laminated and glulaminated timber. That is said to perform better in terms of its environmental credentials timber being 100% renewable and fully embodies stored carbon rather than large steel framed buildings. North Shore Timber’s Chatswood warehouse built in 1991 is built of similar timber construction.

The Erina building, and the adjacent commercial building now under construction, is virtually totally off-grid with 100 KW PV and 250 KW Lithium Battery storage.

Mr Forrester said that timber construction is currently more expensive than steel but will be a less costly form of construction in the future . He commented that the roof spans on a full timber warehouse are probably the largest in Australia.

The new store is fitted with state-of-theart racking and stocks a full range of products all stored undercover and will employ around twelve people.

It will also be the Head Office for the company that has stores in: Thornleigh, Chatswood, Warriewood, Eastgardens and Miranda

North Shore Timber & Hardware are longestablished timber Merchants , established some 50 years ago and owned by the Wilkinson Family who acquired the business in the late 90s.

Meanwhile the company has started construction of a 1,543 sqm building adjacent to the new Warehouse which is also off-grid and of timber construction.

This will comprise a 2-level premium office suite of 530sqm with frontage to The Entrance Road and 3 warehouses of 519sqm and 2 x 247 sqm to the rear.

Brad Rogers from Raine & Horne Commercial Central Coast said these properties will go to market in the next few months

Coast water storage hits peak capacity

Early July saw the Mangrove Creek Dam reach its capacity of 190.0 giga litres for the first time since it was built in 1982 as a storage dam.

Mardi Dam was at 80.5% and Mooney Mooney Dam was as 100.0% capacity.

The three interconnected dams are owned by the Central Coast Water Authority and administered by Central Coast Council.

The Central Coast is one of the few Councils which owns and operates its own water supply business.

Water also is transported into the system by the Hunter Connection. This two-way pipeline provides additional water for operational reasons, or during drought, for both the Central Coast and Hunter. North Shore Timber & Hardware’s Erina Warehouse nearing completion

North Shore Timber & Hardware’s Erina Warehouse under construction showing timber framing