Wooden windows

Wooden windows & frame repairs

We repair wooden windows all the time, It is well worth the time and effort to repair timber windows and frames.

Traditional Joinery

With well over 45 years experience in carpentry, and fully functioning static and mobile workshops, I am able to offer all aspects of bespoke carpentry and joinery,

southampton door fitting

Changing internal or external doors

hanging your interior doors will have an immediate impact on the ambiance of your home.

Carpenter jobs

Skirting boards: a lesson for us all

This customer had new french doors fited by a national company. After many months and the involvement of trading standards the job was finally put right. A lesson for us all -use a local contactable tradesman rather than a national…

Front Door Tidyup

A main entrance door does take a bit of a beating over time. One not so interesting fact is that a main entrance door will be opened and closed 10’220 times if the property is occupied by just two persons…

galley table

Galley table

A galley table on a motor yacht was a bit on the large side given the size of the galley overall. It needed to be reduced in size from a rectangle to a smaller circular shape. This entailed cutting out…

Herbert Collins – Architect

Herbert Collins 1885-1975 was a British architect.He designed many suburban developments in Southampton primarily but not exclusively around the Highfield and Basset Green area of Southampton.Distinctive in their design and built during the 1920s and 1930s. Today their uniqueness is…

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A custom made cupboard

Beautiful Hand-made Shelving Units

This shows a completed shelving unit which was built into a chimney breast in aVictorian terraced property. The object was to create a copy from a original thatwas taken out by a previous owner, using an old photo.

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Boat joinery in southampton

Boat Joinery and Boat or Yacht Repairs

The restoration of the interior of this boat, a 40ft Edwardian Gentleman’s Motor Yacht, to give it its correct description, was undertaken back in the early 1990s using reclaimed pitch pine sourced from the old Southampton dock. It was finished over a…

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