Before · During · After Boiler Boxed In and Painted
A boiler standing open in the corner of a utility room shut away behind a purpose-built housing, built on site and painted to match the units beside it.
See the jobEast Grinstead, West Sussex
A fully qualified carpenter and cabinet maker in East Grinstead — purpose-built housings, doors, shelving, gates and garden timber, measured and made on site.
In October 2026 we boxed in a boiler at an East Grinstead property: a housing measured and built on site, then painted to match the units beside it, with the boiler still reachable for servicing behind it (case study below).
Built-in work like that is where a carpenter earns their keep. A flat-pack cupboard will not fit a corner that is out of true, and a boiler housing has to be taken apart again one day by a heating engineer.
East Grinstead has one of the longest surviving runs of timber-framed buildings on any High Street in the country, and that character carries into a lot of the housing stock around it. Working on older timber asks for a different approach from new joinery: match the section and the species where you can, accept that the structure has moved, and scribe the new work to the old rather than forcing the old to be straight.
Recent Work
Before · During · After A boiler standing open in the corner of a utility room shut away behind a purpose-built housing, built on site and painted to match the units beside it.
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Before · During · After A long run of weathered palisade fencing replaced and the decking around the buildings renovated at a nursery in Wisborough Green, working around the setting while it stayed open.
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Before · During · After A Lutyens-style teak bench and matching coffee table, both green with years of algae, stripped back to clean timber by hand and re-oiled.
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Yes — we did exactly that in October 2026 at an East Grinstead property. The housing is measured and built on site, painted to match the units around it, and leaves the boiler reachable for servicing.
Yes. Richard is a fully qualified carpenter and cabinet maker, and older work is scribed to fit what is actually there rather than assuming anything is square.
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