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Fitted wardrobes and carpentry in St Albans
Bespoke fitted wardrobes, fitted furniture and made-to-measure joinery in St Albans and AL1, AL3, AL4.
The houses in St Albans
A cathedral city with a medieval core, streets of Victorian terraces around the centre and the station, 1930s suburbs beyond them and postwar estates further out.
The Victorian terraces are the common job: narrow rooms, a chimney breast with recesses either side, and often a loft conversion with sloping ceilings where nothing bought will fit at all.
Large parts of the centre are conservation area, so work in the older houses is as much about what you leave alone as what you add.
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 St Albans
- 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 AL1, AL3, AL4 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 St Albans bedroom and one that fits a catalogue.
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St Albans questions
Do you cover all of St Albans?
Yes, the whole of AL1, AL3, AL4 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 a St Albans 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 St Albans?
Tell us about the room and we will come and take a look. The quote is free.