Carpentry services in Cardiff

We fit kitchens from any supplier — Howdens, Wren, Magnet, DIY-shed flat pack or a bespoke run made up for you. The units are levelled and scribed to the wall, the worktops are cut, jointed and sealed on site, and the doors and drawers are set so the gaps are even all the way along rather than only at the ends.

Older Cardiff houses almost never give you a square room to work in. Victorian and Edwardian terraces across Roath, Canton and Grangetown tend to have bowed walls, sloping floors, a chimney breast in the middle of the best run and a back addition that is a different height again. That is exactly the sort of kitchen where a fitted job either looks superb or looks obviously bodged, and it is why we scribe and pack rather than push a unit up to a wall and hope.

We work alongside your electrician and plumber, or we can bring in trades we use regularly, so the sequence runs properly and the kitchen is not sat half-finished waiting for someone. If you want a kitchen fitter in Cardiff who will also handle the joinery around the units — end panels, boxing in the pipework, the awkward scribes into a bay or an alcove — that is the same person, on the same day rate.

Fitted wardrobes give you far more usable storage than a freestanding unit, because they run right into the awkward corners a shop-bought wardrobe cannot reach. We build to the room: full height into the ceiling, around a chimney breast, into a loft slope, or across an entire wall with a run of doors.

The carcass work is done properly — solid framing fixed back to the structure, not a flat pack leaning on a skirting board — and the internals are set out around what you actually own. Hanging rails at the right heights for long and short, drawer banks, shoe shelves, a section for bedding at the top, and lighting if you want it.

We fit hinged, sliding and bi-fold doors, and we can spray or paint the fronts in a colour of your choice, or supply them ready-finished.

A media wall turns the wall your television is stuck to into the finished feature of the room. We build the frame, board and skim-ready finish, recess the TV so it sits flush, run every cable and power point inside the structure, and set in the shelving, cupboards, lighting and electric fire.

The parts people get wrong are ventilation and access. A recessed TV needs air around it and a way to reach the back of it later, so we build in a proper service void and removable panels rather than sealing everything in and hoping nothing ever needs unplugging.

We can build it as a simple flush panel with a floating shelf, or as a full wall with an inset fire, alcoves either side, LED strip lighting and closed storage underneath. We work with your electrician for the fused spurs and the fire supply, or we can arrange that.

Hanging a door well is a proper carpentry job and it shows immediately when it has not been. We fit the lining plumb and square, hang the door to an even gap all the way round, set the hinges flush so nothing catches, and fit the latch, lock and handles so they line up and close without being shouldered.

Old Cardiff houses rarely have a square opening, so a door bought to a standard size usually needs planing on more than one edge and the lining packing to suit. We size doors on site rather than forcing a stock door into an opening that does not want it.

We fit internal doors, external front and back doors, French doors, bi-folds, sliding and pocket doors, and certified fire doors with the correct intumescent strips, smoke seals and closers for HMO and rental compliance.

Bespoke joinery is anything that has to be made rather than bought: alcove cupboards either side of a chimney breast, a run of shelving that follows a wonky wall, a window seat with storage under it, panelling, a bar, a boot room, a bench, a desk built into a box room.

It is the work that suits Cardiff housing stock best, because so much of it has features a standard unit simply cannot sit against. Every piece is measured on site, made to those measurements, and scribed in so it looks built-in rather than pushed up against something.

We work in MDF for painted finishes, and in oak, pine, ply and hardwood where the timber itself is the finish. We can leave it primed and ready for your decorator or finish it ourselves.

First fix is the structural side: stud partitions, floor joists and decks, loft and roof timbers, door linings, noggins and the timber grounds everything else fixes to. Second fix is everything that goes on afterwards and is on show — skirting, architrave, window boards, staircases, spindles and handrails, loft hatches and ladders.

We take on single second-fix jobs — a house full of new skirting and architrave, a staircase re-spindled, a loft hatch enlarged and a ladder fitted — as readily as we work through a full renovation from stud walls to final trims.

If you are running a renovation yourself and need a carpenter for a defined stage, that is completely normal for us and we will fit around the other trades.

Most flooring problems are subfloor problems. We check and correct the floor first — screeding or ply-lining where it is uneven, fixing loose boards, sorting the squeaks — because a floor laid over a bad base will move, gap and creak no matter how good the boards are.

We fit laminate, engineered wood, solid wood and click or glue-down LVT, with the correct underlay, expansion gaps and threshold strips. Doors are eased and re-hung to the new floor height rather than left dragging.

Edges are what make it look finished, so we scribe around chimney breasts, bay windows and pipework, and either refit the existing skirting or fit beading, whichever suits the room.

External carpentry has to be built for the weather it will actually get, which in South Wales means a lot of rain. We build decks on a properly supported, ventilated frame with the right fixings and a fall that sheds water, rather than laying boards on a frame sat flat on wet ground.

We build timber and composite decking, raised decks with balustrades and steps, fencing and gates, pergolas, planters, storage benches and garden room shells.

Everything structural is pressure-treated, cut ends are re-treated before they go in, and we use stainless or coated fixings so the frame is not held together by rust in five years.

Most households have a running list: a door that sticks, a shelf that needs putting up properly, a cupboard hinge that has dropped, flat-pack that never got built, a curtain pole, a loose bannister, a cat flap, a fence panel down after a windy week.

We take the whole list in one visit rather than charging you a call-out for each item, which almost always works out cheaper and gets the lot cleared in a morning or a day.

Because the background is carpentry, the joinery-adjacent jobs get done to a carpenter standard rather than patched — but we are happy to pick up general repairs and odd jobs around them.