21 March, 2024 | Carpentry, Door hanging, Doors, Livingroom, Special projects
For this project the customer wanted to partition off part of a long open living room so that they had an office too. We discussed various solutions and they settled on pocket doors so that they wouldn’t have to deal with the swing space around furniture. As you...
28 May, 2021 | Carpentry, Door hanging, Fencing, Safety
One of my regular customers asked me to build them some gates. I used some high quality pressure treated timber, all glued and screwed together. I also used heavy duty ironmongery and modified the field latch to make it wider – I cut it and welded a new section...
27 June, 2020 | Carpentry, Door hanging
One of my customers in Heathfield asked me to replace a missing door in her house. This needed new hinges, handles and catch, I usually reset or replace the jams too but the new door sat well in the frame and met the old jams just right. You can see the door is nice...
24 June, 2019 | Carpentry, Door hanging
I fitted a pair of new glazed oak doors to a property being renovated near Hampden Park. The client supplied the doors and the handles/latches and I sourced the roller bearing hinges. I removed the door frame trim first to ensure the frame was tidy and to make sure...
