Joinery Cost In Torquay
Trying to work out whether bespoke is even in your budget?
Real guide ranges for every service, and a straight explanation of what moves a quote up or down.
Most joinery websites will not put a number on anything, which is unhelpful when all you want to know is whether to keep reading. So here are ours. They are wide, because the work really does vary that much, and they are guide figures rather than quotes - the only accurate number comes from measuring your room. But they will tell you within a few minutes whether a conversation is worth having.
Get A Figure For Your Own Room
Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we will arrange a time to come and measure. A photo of the space on your phone is usually enough to start with.
Guide Prices
What Each Service Typically Costs
All figures include VAT and cover both making and fitting. They reflect work we have quoted in and around Torquay rather than a national average.
| Service | Guide range | Quoted per |
|---|---|---|
| Fitted Wardrobes | £2,500 – £12,000 | typical fitted wardrobe run |
| Bespoke Kitchens | £12,000 – £45,000 | supplied and fitted |
| Staircases | £4,000 – £18,000 | flight, supplied and fitted |
| Timber Windows & Doors | £1,400 – £9,000 | per opening, made and fitted |
| Bespoke Furniture | £900 – £8,000 | per piece |
| Alcove Units & Home Offices | £1,800 – £7,500 | per pair of alcoves |
| Commercial Joinery & Shopfitting | £5,000 – £60,000 | per fit-out |
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The Variables
Six Things That Move A Joinery Quote
If two quotes for the same job differ by thousands, the explanation is almost always in this list rather than in anyone's margin.
How much of it you can see
A carcass hidden behind a door can be birch ply with a sprayed interior. A visible side panel on the same unit has to be a matched, finished face. The same wardrobe in the middle of a wall and at the end of a run are different prices, and the reason is the number of faces that have to be presentable.
Painted or natural timber
Painted work uses cheaper stock - tulipwood or MDF - but costs more in labour, because it is filled, primed, rubbed down and topcoated. Natural timber is the reverse: expensive boards, less finishing. They often land closer together than people assume, so pick the look you want rather than guessing at the cheaper route.
Which timber
Between the cheapest and dearest hardwood we work with there is a factor of three or four on the material. On a piece where timber is most of the cost, like a solid table top, that dominates the quote. On a painted kitchen where labour dominates, it barely registers.
Ironmongery
Runners, hinges and handles are a genuine variable. Basic soft-close runners and contract-grade ones with a heavier load rating and a longer cycle test can differ by a factor of five across a whole kitchen. For a holiday let that difference is worth paying; for a spare bedroom it usually is not.
How square the room is
This is the Torquay-specific one. A room that is out by 5mm is normal and costs nothing extra. A Victorian villa wall that bows 40mm over four metres means a deeper scribe, more site time, and sometimes a made-to-fit filler piece that is itself a piece of joinery. We tell you at the survey if a room falls into the second category.
Access
A ground-floor room you can back a van up to is straightforward. A third-floor flat in a converted villa with a turned staircase and a 760mm doorway means the piece is designed to come apart and be assembled in the room, which adds design time and fitting time both.
Payment
When Money Actually Changes Hands
Free
Measured visit and quote
We come out, measure, talk through options and give you a written quote. No charge and no obligation, anywhere in Torbay.
Included
Drawings
Scale elevations and a plan with real dimensions, revised until you are happy. Included in the price of any job that proceeds.
Typically 40%
Deposit on order
Taken when you approve the drawings. It buys the timber and the ironmongery, which is when our costs actually start.
Remainder
Balance on completion
Due when the job is finished and you have walked it with us, not when the van leaves. Larger commercial projects are staged differently by agreement.
Questions
Cost Questions
- Why are your ranges so wide?
- Because the work genuinely varies that much. A two-door wardrobe run in a spare bedroom and a full dressing room with drawers, shoe racks and internal lighting are both fitted wardrobes, and there is a factor of four between them. A narrow range would be a more comfortable answer and a less honest one.
- Is the quote fixed or an estimate?
- Fixed, against the drawing you approve. It changes if you change the design, or if something is found once we open up that could not reasonably have been seen at survey - rot behind a skirting, or a wall that turns out to be hollow where we need to fix. If either happens we stop and tell you the cost before carrying on.
- Do you charge for the design?
- Not for the drawings on a job that goes ahead. If you want a full set of drawings purely to price the work elsewhere, that is a design service and we would charge for it, which is only fair.
- Is VAT included in your figures?
- Yes. Every figure on this site includes VAT at the standard rate. Some property conversions and work on buildings that have been empty for two years or more can attract a reduced rate, and we will apply it if your project qualifies.
- Can we do the work in phases to spread the cost?
- Often, yes, and it is common. A kitchen can be done before a utility, a house of sash windows can be replaced one elevation at a time. We will price the phases separately and hold the design so the later parts still match. Phasing does add a little overall because of repeated set-up and travel.
- How do you compare to a national fitted furniture company?
- For a comparable specification we are usually competitive and sometimes cheaper, because we do not carry showroom or sales-commission costs. Where we will not compete is against a genuinely budget product - a chipboard-carcass wardrobe with stapled drawer boxes is a cheaper thing to make and it should cost less. The way to compare fairly is to make every quote name its carcass material, its drawer construction and its ironmongery.
Feedback
What Customers Say
Rated 5 out of 5
“Our bedroom is in one of the old Warberries villas and the back wall bows by about an inch and a half across four metres. Two national firms measured it, quoted, then went quiet. These came, measured, and said it needed scribing rather than filling. The wardrobes go right into the corner and there is no gap anywhere. My husband keeps running his hand down the join.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“We run a bar on the harbourside and needed the counter and back fittings replaced without losing a summer weekend. They built the lot off site, came in on a Sunday night and had us trading by Tuesday lunchtime. Knowing the whole thing was made before they ever shut our doors is what sold it.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“Sash windows on the front elevation, and we are in a conservation area so it had to be timber and it had to match. They took a profile off the original, made new boxes in accoya, and the planning side went through without a query. From the pavement you genuinely cannot tell which is which.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“Two alcoves either side of the chimney, and they turned out to be 40mm different in width, which explains why the flat-pack ones we tried first never sat right. Made as a pair but to two different sets of measurements. Small thing, but it is the difference between looking fitted and looking bought.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“We let our place out over the season so everything gets hammered. I asked them to over-specify the drawer runners and they did, and told me exactly which ones so I can order spares. Three summers in, nothing has sagged. The last kitchen we had did not last two.”
Coverage
Where We Work
Most of our work sits inside Torbay, because fitted joinery needs at least two visits and often three. Further out we go as far as the drive stays sensible - Newton Abbot and Totnes are routine, and we have taken work down to the South Hams when the job justified it.
Across Torquay
- Wellswood
- The Warberries
- The Lincombes
- Chelston
- Babbacombe
- St Marychurch
- Cockington
- Shiphay
- Torre
- Ellacombe
- Livermead
- Maidencombe
And across South Devon
- Paignton
- Brixham
- Newton Abbot
- Teignmouth
- Shaldon
- Dawlish
- Totnes
- Kingskerswell
- Marldon
- Galmpton
Or go straight to a service
Get A Number For Your Own Room
Guide ranges only get you so far. Send a photograph and rough dimensions and we will come back with a realistic figure, or come and measure properly if you would rather have an exact one.