Bespoke joinery in Ampthill

Across Ampthill (MK45) it is mostly bespoke joinery, panelling, kitchens and fitted wardrobes in Georgian and period town property. Ampthill is a market town with a lot of Georgian and Victorian property in and around the centre, where panelling, alcove joinery and staircase work have to suit rooms with real proportions rather than fight them. Every job is priced after a proper measure up rather than over the phone, because the size of the room and the state of the walls decide most of the cost.

No, travel is in the price. Ampthill is roughly 12 km from the workshop in Bedford, well inside the patch we cover as a matter of course, so you are paying for the joinery rather than for the van. The only thing that changes the price is the job itself: the size of the run, the materials and how much has to come out before anything new goes in.

Yes. Ampthill is a proper old market town with a lot of period property, and period rooms are where made to measure joinery is not a luxury but the only option. The workshop is in Bedford and we cover the surrounding Bedfordshire towns and villages as standard, out to Milton Keynes and Northampton, so Ampthill is well inside our normal patch. Call and tell us what the room is and what you want out of it and you will get a straight answer on timing.

A great deal, and always in favour of having it made. Older property in Ampthill has settled over a century or more, so walls lean, ceilings run out of level and no two sides of an alcove are the same width. A bought unit in a room like that leaves a wedge of daylight down one edge. Everything we fit there is measured off the room itself and scribed to the wall, the skirting and the ceiling, and the profiles are matched into whatever mouldings the house already has so the new work does not announce itself.

Fitting is usually the short part. A run of fitted wardrobes is generally one to three days on site, under-stairs storage is two to four, a staircase refurbishment is a day or two and a kitchen runs to one or two weeks. What sets the overall timescale is the making, which happens in the workshop beforehand, and the lead time on any doors or worktops being ordered in. You get the full sequence in writing at the quote.

Yes, and that is how every job should start. The design consultation is free and there is no obligation attached to it. We come out to Ampthill, look at the room, take the measurements, talk through what you want it to do and follow up with a written price. Nothing gets ordered or made until you have seen that price and agreed the design.

Yes. Plenty of what we do is a single alcove, one set of shelves, a boiler cover, a bank of drawers or replacing the spindles on a staircase. Small jobs get the same measure up and the same written price as a full kitchen, and we would rather do a small piece properly than turn it away. If it is genuinely a half-hour job, we will say so and point you in the right direction.