Joinery Subcontractor for Main Contractors

The joinery we take on

• Listed-building joinery, including panelled rooms and carved panelling.
• Principal staircases.
• Fitted libraries, studies and dressing rooms.
• Hidden jib doors, doors and windows.
• Vanity units and wine rooms.

How we run a package

Every commission follows the same sequence: a measured site survey, then design and full workshop drawings in SolidWorks, sample approval for timber and ironmongery, manufacture in our workshop, and installation by our site team. The making and the finishing stay in our own workshop. The same project manager you meet at the start hands the work over at completion.

On your site

We carry full insurance for site work, and our installation teams are CSCS-carded for main-contractor sites. Our health and safety information is on our health and safety page.

Programme

As a guide, full residential programmes typically run from sixteen to thirty weeks depending on scope and finish. Send us the programme dates that matter and we will tell you plainly where the joinery fits, and what we need from the build to hit them.

Where we work

Most of our work is in London and the Home Counties, and we work across the UK. We also take selected commissions in Europe by arrangement. See our pages on London and the Home Counties and international clients.

Send us a package

Send drawings, a schedule or a short brief and we will help you assess detail, sequencing and feasibility before the project moves into manufacture. Estimates are quoted plus VAT. Start with our trade estimates page or contact the workshop.

Programme, drawings and sign-off

We work to your master programme, not our own. Before manufacture starts you receive a drawing schedule with dates, so the architect, the structural engineer and the other trades can see what is being issued and when. Every package is drawn twice: first in CAD to resolve the design and the interfaces with other trades, then again at full size as a rod, which is how the joinery is set out and checked against the building. Dimensions are taken from site, not from the plan, and anything that does not agree is raised with you before it reaches the bench.

Making, delivery and installation

Because making and finishing both happen in our own workshop, there is no handover between suppliers and no one else’s lead time in the chain. Typical packages run from six weeks for smaller items to around six months for a large house, with most delivered in sixteen to twenty weeks from order. Installation is by our own fitters, who work to your site rules and leave the area clean and snagged.

Compliance on site

We provide risk assessments and method statements for each package and work to the site health and safety rules set by the principal contractor.

Package size and commercial terms

Packages typically range from about £5,000 to £600,000, quoted plus VAT. We price from the drawings and a measured survey and will agree valuations against the programme.

Questions contractors ask us

Do you fit as well as make?

Yes. Our own site team installs everything we make, so one company is responsible from survey to final fit.

Can you work to a fixed programme date?

We build the drawing schedule and manufacture around the dates in your programme and tell you early if anything in the design information puts them at risk.

Do you take on kitchens?

A single kitchen is better placed with our sister brand Square & True. Where a kitchen is part of a whole-house package we make it alongside the rest of the joinery.

For architects and designers specifying a scheme, see our architects and designers page; for how a commission runs from first survey to handover, see how a commission works.