Timber Repairs and Practical Pricing

This service is for solid oak, walnut and pine tables marked by heat, water or daily wear. We strip the failed finish on site, sand the timber flat and apply three coats of hardwax oil. You get a clean, water-resistant surface ready for daily meals.

• ✓Assessment of timber species and veneer thickness
• ✓Chemical or scrape removal of old varnish and lacquer
• ✓Mechanical dust-extracted sanding through coarse to fine grits
• ✓Denting and scratch filling with colour-matched wood filler

This service is for dining chairs, armchairs and stools that wobble, creak or lean. We knock apart loose mortise and tenon joints, scrape away brittle glue and re-seat the frames under sash clamps. Your chairs stand rigid and carry weight without flex.

• ✓Inspection of tenons, dowels and corner braces
• ✓Gentle dismantling using rubber mallets without wood splitting
• ✓Scraping away old animal glue and PVA residue
• ✓Re-wedging loose tenons with hardwood shims

This service is for chests of drawers, sideboards and desks where drawers stick, drop down or drop wood shavings into lower shelves. We plane out grooved drawer slips, glue in dense beech runners and lubricate tracks with beeswax. Your drawers open straight without sticking.

• ✓Removal of dropped drawers and interior cabinet inspection
• ✓Planing worn bottom rails flat inside the carcase
• ✓Inlaying new close-grain beech running strips
• ✓Trueing warped drawer boxes and fixing loose bottoms

This service is for antique desks, credenzas and console tables with hazy, cracked or bloom-affected shellac. We wash away built-up household wax, spirit off surface grime, and build fresh layers of button shellac with a traditional fad. The timber depth returns with a deep, warm gloss.

• ✓Wax and silicone removal with white spirit solvents
• ✓Amalgamation of minor crazing using pure alcohol spirits
• ✓Pore filling with fine pumice powder and raw linseed oil
• ✓Multi-pass fad application of refined blonde or button shellac

This service is for mid-century teak sideboards, Victorian chests and tables where veneer has bubbled, lifted or chipped away at the corners. We inject fresh glue beneath bubbles, clamp flat under heated cauls, and splice grain-matched wood patches into chipped corners. The surface becomes flat and solid again.

• ✓Identification of veneer cut, grain flow and timber species
• ✓Slitting blistered veneer along the natural grain line
• ✓Hypodermic glue injection into hollow glue pockets
• ✓Clamping with cork-faced blocks and heated metal plates

This service is for built-in alcove wardrobes, solid wood kitchen larders and linen presses where doors scrape the floor or latch poorly. We re-bush worn brass butt hinges, plane bound edges to even clearance, and adjust interior catches. Your doors shut softly and stay flush with their frames.

• ✓Plumb and level check of carcase, face frames and door leaves
• ✓Removal and re-plugging of loose hinge screw holes with oak plugs
• ✓Shaving high contact points along door stiles and rails
• ✓Replacement of bent hinge pins or worn brass butt washers