For whatever kind of carpentry or joinery work you're interested in, please click the categories to the right and browse through the work we have done in the past. Please also feel free to leave a comment or two. This cabin bed was built to replace an existing one that could not be positioned under the window illustrated because of it's size. With the cabin bed being under the window, the space in the room was put to much better use, and good use of space was also achieved by incorporating drawers, cupboards and a slide-out bookcase into the cabin bed itself.
I started out in carpentry and joinery in the year 2000, by taking a course in it at the Guildford College of Further and Higher Education. At the time I enrolled on the course, i was working for What-Not Antiques pine furniture retailers in the warehouse in Aldershot, having been transferred there from the Guildford shop because my skill was much more prominent in the staining and waxing of unfinished furniture than it was in selling the furniture to customers! I was a bit gutted at the time because all my mates were still working in the Guildford shop.
Decking is a fantastic solution to making a pleasant space out of a part of your garden that is lumpy and uneven, and that was exactly the case here. It was built from right outside the back door of this house in Pirbright all the way to the shed, angled at 45° to the house onto the grass, and stepped up around the corner of the house. In this case, plywood with a softwood grain was used for the finished surface rather than the normal decking timber, and in doing this, we saved about three quarters of the price!
On and off over the past month or so, i've been working at a large house that is being entirely renovated. It began while i was still working at Mayford Joinery, and while i was there, i made the staircase and some of the new replacement windows for the house. The oak staircase has a double bullnose and winds to the left halfway up, and at the top you can turn either left or right depending on which part of the house you want to go to. I fitted the staircase with Keith Holdaway, another very good local carpenter, a few months ago, before i started this blog.
For whatever kind of carpentry or joinery work you're interested in, please click the categories to the right and browse through the work we have done in the past. Please also feel free to leave a comment or two. The customer had nearly finished the build of the house, which used to be a bungalow, now transformed into a superb, modern open-plan dwelling, and this MDF and softwood floor-to-ceiling Audio/TV cabinet was one of the last items to be completed before the family moved in. As you can see in the picture to the left, the cabinet has a multitude of compartments, all measured and designed by the customer to fit around the objects and equipment they were intending to place in it.
Viewed from the top, the shape of the new extention onto which we built the roof was an ‘L' shape, hence the valley rafter, and gable ended at both ends. It was a dual pitch roof, meaning that the side of the roof you can't see in the photo to the left was 45 degrees and a lot shorter and steeper than the side you can see, which was at 17 degrees pitch, longer and shallower. The original plan, i believe, was for the shallow side of the roof to be 22 degrees, but if we had gone ahead with that, the part of the roof which attached to the house would have been half way up the glass in the windows upstairs, which would've made taking this photo rather difficult!
This was the second of two staircases I worked on in West Sussex, the main staircase can be seen here. This staircase was built in the newly constructed section that connected two originally separate buildings together to form a large single residence. As you can see in the image to the left, the staircase is actually 3 staircases connecting 4 different levels. This is because one of the original two buildings was higher than the other. The stairs themselves were made from softwood strings and newel stubs, with MDF treads and risers, while the handrail was from B&Q's range of Oak and Chrome.
This job was a replacement of existing handrail, which was the largely undesirable 70′s "Planks nailed to the newels" look. It's always fun to put a sharp handsaw through those planks to make way for a nice new balustrade, and this time we used solid oak handrail, base rail and stop-chamfered oak spindles and newels with oak pyramid newel caps. The first step was to determine the height at which the existing newels should be cut, as the Richard Burbridge newels were pre-drilled to receive the handrail at the top, and spigoted at the bottom to be inserted into the stub of the old newel.
For whatever kind of carpentry or joinery work you're interested in, please click the categories to the right and browse through the work we have done in the past. Please also feel free to leave a comment or two. The image to the left shows the finished job, having installed the continuous oak handrail and spindles on to the staircase that before i started, actually had no safety measures in place whatsoever! And what kind of wood-working grandson would I be if I simply allowed my grandmother to continue dicing with death up and down an unsafe staircase?!
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