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Fitted wardrobes and carpentry in Abbots Langley
Bespoke fitted wardrobes, fitted furniture and made-to-measure joinery in Abbots Langley and WD5.
The houses in Abbots Langley
An old village core with a church and period houses, surrounded by substantial postwar estates built as Watford and Hemel expanded towards it.
Most of the work is in the postwar housing, where bedrooms are a sensible size but no more, and a full-height fitted run is the only way to add real storage without losing the floor.
The village itself is much older than the estates around it, and the two are easy to tell apart by the room sizes alone.
That is the point of building rather than buying. A wardrobe made for the room goes to the ceiling, into the alcove and up to the skirting, and the awkward bits of the house become storage instead of dead air.
What we build in Abbots Langley
- Fitted wardrobes, hinged, sliding or walk-in
- Alcove cupboards and shelving either side of a chimney breast
- Understairs storage, media walls and fitted desks
- Kitchen units and islands built to fit
- Wall panelling, doors hung and eased, flooring laid
- First and second fix for builders and other trades
Covering WD5 and the surrounding streets. Travel is included in the price.
Built for the room, not bought for it
Every job starts the same way: someone comes out, measures the room as it really is, and prices the work. Walls are never quite straight and floors are never quite level, so the parts are made to suit what is actually there and scribed in on site.
That is the difference between a wardrobe that fits a Abbots Langley bedroom and one that fits a catalogue.
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Abbots Langley questions
Do you cover all of Abbots Langley?
Yes, the whole of WD5 and the streets around it. Travel is included in the price, so there is no mileage charge wherever in the area you are.
Can you build around a chimney breast in an Abbots Langley house?
That is the most common job there is. An alcove either side of a breast is exactly the shape nothing off a shelf will fit, and exactly the shape a built-in cupboard is for.
Do the wardrobes need painting?
Mostly not. What we fit is usually MFC, which arrives already finished in the colour you picked, so there is nothing to paint and nothing to re-coat later. If a job is built out of MDF and you want it painted, we bring a painter in.
Will the house be full of dust?
There is no such thing as no dust, but there is a lot of difference between a tidy job and a messy one. We sheet up, cut in one place where we can, and clear the room at the end of every day.
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Thinking about a wardrobe in Abbots Langley?
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