Carpenter & Joiner in Guildford

Carpentry and joinery in Guildford

Fitted storage is the job we are asked for most often in a town like Guildford, where houses are tall and narrow more often than they are wide, and the usable space is in awkward corners: under a staircase, in an eaves cupboard, in an alcove beside a chimney breast.

Nothing off a shelf fits those. They are measured, made and scribed in, which is ordinary work for a cabinet maker and very difficult for anyone else.

Hills, cellars and steep ground

Guildford is built on and around the chalk of the North Downs, and a lot of its older housing sits on sloping ground with cellars, split levels and half-landings. That is why so little in these houses is a standard size, and why an eaves or understairs cupboard is almost never a rectangle. Anything fitted here has to be measured in place and made to those measurements.

What we take on

• Understairs and eaves storage made to fit
• Alcove shelving and cupboards
• Internal doors hung, eased and adjusted
• Wooden gates made, hung and repaired
• Garden carpentry — pergolas, log stores, patio covers
• Furniture repaired and restored

Covering Guildford and nearby