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Repair is an act of optimism.
Joinery, carpentry and restoration across Huntingdonshire. Repair where possible. Replace only when necessary. Modern culture encourages the opposite: discard, upgrade, start again. Sometimes that is sensible. But a carefully repaired gate keeps its history, restored joinery preserves the character of a home, and timber that has stood for a century usually deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Joinery and carpentry, old and new
- Doors eased, adjusted, re-hung or replaced sympathetically
- Media wall units built in, with the cables routed inside rather than trailed
- Wall panelling set out, built and then finished by the same hands
- Garden gates repaired, re-hung or built to match
- Fitted shelving and alcove storage, made to belong
- Skirting, architrave and trim repaired or matched
- Sash and casement windows eased and maintained
- Fence posts, panels and timber structures made sound
- Furniture repairs: wobbly chairs, sticking drawers, tired hinges
- Period features conserved rather than ripped out
Repair or replace
When we repair
When the material still has life in it, and restoration honours both craftsmanship and sustainability. Extending a timber window's life by twenty years is the greenest thing anyone can do to it.
When we replace
When repair would cost more and deliver less, we say so. The most expensive option is not always the best investment, and sentiment should not be billed by the metre.
How we decide
One question settles it: what would we choose if this were our own home? You get that answer, in writing, with the price of each path.
Every home speaks its own language
A Victorian terrace speaks a different language from a contemporary apartment, and a converted barn asks for different solutions than a suburban family house. Good joinery begins with listening: understanding what already exists before deciding what to add.
Original features are respected. Materials are chosen to feel appropriate, not merely available. Alterations should appear considered rather than fashionable, so that in ten years the work still makes sense. The objective is never to erase a property's history. It is to add the next chapter thoughtfully.
An internal door supplied and hung is around £380. Alcove shelving is roughly £485 a bay, made to fit and painted. Sash windows eased and serviced start near £220. Restoration work is quoted after inspection, with the repair and replace options priced side by side.
These are starting points, not a menu. Combine them, split them, or ask for the one job you actually want. If that is a single curtain pole, send us that one line and a single curtain pole is all we will price.
We will try to talk you out of replacing it. Old timber is almost always better than the new timber that would replace it: slower grown, denser, and already proven for a century. A window that has stuck since 2019 usually needs easing and a new cord, not a skip. Replacement is the last answer, not the first quote.
The joinery is rarely the whole job. New skirting wants the wall made good and the paint carried through, or it looks like new skirting in an old room. We do the finishing rather than leaving it for whoever comes next.
Chapter Six of the Book of Care is about craftsmanship, and about why perfection is the wrong word for it.
Something worth saving?
Send us a photo of the gate, the door, the window or the wobbly heirloom. We will give you a first verdict from that, and for anything beyond a simple repair we will come and put hands on it before pricing, because timber tells you more in person.