The most useful thing about a joinery portfolio is not the finished photograph, it is the problem the piece was solving. A wardrobe on a straight wall in a new build is easy. The same wardrobe in a villa where the wall bows and the ceiling has a cornice is a different job, and that is the sort of work shown here.
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.
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In Detail
Four box sashes on a period frontage inside one of Torquay's conservation areas. Profiles were taken off the surviving originals, new boxes made in accoya for the exposure, and slim sealed units specified to keep the sightline correct. The point of a job like this is that nobody notices it afterwards.
Timber Windows & DoorsCounter, back fitting and bottle steps built and dry-assembled in the workshop, then installed over a Sunday night and a Monday so the venue lost one trading day rather than a fortnight. Contract-grade ironmongery throughout, and a counter front detailed to survive a keg trolley.
Commercial Joinery & ShopfittingWorn treads, a newel that rocked and a run of balusters lost to an old stair gate. One surviving baluster went back to the workshop as a pattern, new ones were turned to match, the newel joint was remade properly and the flight was re-wedged from below. The stair stayed.
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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
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.
Send a photograph of the space and a rough size. We will tell you what we would make, roughly what it would come to, and whether there is a cheaper way of getting what you want.
