Two hundred and thirty-three kilometres

That is the median distance between our shop in Langley and the places our furniture ends up. More than half of it goes less than 250 kilometres. For a product that is mostly weight, where it is made matters.

Wishbone Site Furnishings

·September 9, 2026·1 min read

233 km
median distance, shop to installation

56%of installations within 250 km

82%within 1,000 km

Site furniture is heavy and it does not fold. A bench is a bench-sized object on a truck from the day it leaves the shop. So the freight question is not a rounding error in its environmental footprint, and the answer is decided by geography before any material is chosen.

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What ships most

4 items

Rutherford Bench 5ft

RAL-5

Bayview Bench 6ft

BV-6

Diamond Head Bollard, Black, Blank

HDBBL-55

Bayview Picnic Table 6ft

BVPT-6

We build in Langley, British Columbia, start to finish, and the geocoded installations tell us where the work goes. Half of it is within 233 kilometres: the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley, the Okanagan. Eight in ten installations are within a thousand kilometres, which covers BC and Alberta. The furniture in a Kelowna park travelled about as far as a weekend drive.

Why the shop matters

"Built in our own shops" is usually said as a quality claim. It is also a freight claim. A bench manufactured in one place, finished in another, and warehoused in a third has travelled before it is sold. Ours is fabricated, powder coated, assembled and shipped from one address, and most of the time the address it ships to is a few hours away.

The honest footnote: this is measured on the 1,059 installations we have geocoded, which are the public ones. The full set of 5,089 would shift it, though the regional split suggests not by much. British Columbia is 696 of them; the next largest region is Alberta at 156.

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