General joinery: skirtings, architraves, doors, windows, banisters, decking.

General joinery in Doncaster: skirtings, architraves, internal doors, windows, banisters and decking. Priced on request. The finishing joinery that makes a refurbished room look fitted, not fitted-in.

A finished banister on a real jobA finished banister on a real job
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Not every joinery job is a full kitchen or a media wall. Most of what I get asked for through the year is smaller and just as important to get right: skirting and architrave through a whole house after a refurb, an internal door that's been dragging on the carpet for years, a banister that's come loose, a window board, a run of decking out the back, or a floor of LVT to finish it off — flooring's the bit of joinery I enjoy most.

It's the finishing joinery that a lot of bigger jobs skip past or rush, and it's the difference between a room that looks refurbished and one that looks like the last trade left before it was finished. I scribe skirting to a wall that isn't straight rather than caulking a gap, hang doors so they close without being lifted, and fit a banister that doesn't move when you lean on it.

I do this on its own, and I do it as the last stage of bigger jobs: a knocked-through kitchen needs new architrave where the old doorway was, a rewired house needs skirting lifted and refitted around every socket. Either way it's priced on request once I know the scope, because a single door is a different job to a whole house of skirting.

quote on request

Typically 1–5 days on site

What moves the price:

  • Scope: one door or run of skirting versus a whole house
  • Matching: period profiles and existing joinery take longer to match than a clean modern spec
  • Decking: size, height off the ground and whether a sub-frame or footings are needed
  • Whether it's decorated afterwards as part of the job
How I do it
  1. Look and measure

    What's there now, what's being matched or replaced, and the scope: one room or the whole house.

  2. Prepare

    Old skirting, architrave or doors carefully removed where they're being replaced; walls and floors checked for level before anything's cut.

  3. Cut and fit

    Mitred and scribed to the actual wall and floor, not to a straight line that isn't there. Doors hung and eased so they close properly; banisters and spindles fixed solid.

  4. Finish

    Filled, sanded, and painted if you want it painting, or left primed for your decorator.

Flooring, plastering, painting and skirting finished together on the same jobFlooring, plastering, painting and skirting finished together on the same job
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Recent flooring & finishing

Joinery's other half: the floor underneath it.

Questions I get asked
Do you do just one door, or does it have to be a whole job?

Just one door, one length of skirting, one loose spindle: all fine. A lot of what I get asked for is exactly that.

Can you match old skirting and architrave in a period house?

Usually. Common profiles are available off the shelf; for something unusual I can get a cutter made to match, which is worth it on a whole house.

Do you build decking?

Yes, on a proper sub-frame set on posts or footings depending on height, rather than boards screwed straight to whatever's underneath. I'll tell you if the ground needs more than a token base.

Can you fix a banister or staircase that feels loose?

Usually, and it's worth sorting rather than living with. Loose spindles and newel posts are a few hours' work; a genuinely unsafe staircase I'll tell you honestly needs more than a repair.

Who's doing the work

One person accountable, start to finish.

I'm Jack. I price it, I'm on the tools for it, and it's my name on it. Twelve years on site, a first-class degree in construction management, SMSTS and First Aid, and I operate the excavator myself. Where a job wants more hands I bring in people I've worked with for years and I run them. I cover Doncaster and everywhere within about half an hour of it: Bessacarr, Bawtry, Tickhill, Armthorpe, Thorne, Sprotbrough, Mexborough and over into Rotherham. More about me.

  • 5.0 stars on Google6 reviews from real customers
  • Fully insuredPublic liability
  • SMSTS and First AidLegally qualified to run a UK construction site under CDM
  • BSc (Hons) Construction Project Management, First ClassSheffield Hallam University, degree apprenticeship
  • CIOB Certificate of ExcellenceChartered Institute of Building
  • Twelve years on siteUK and Australia, £10m+ delivered as project manager
  • Three full back to brick house renovationsTwo in Scawsby, one in Sprotbrough
  • All aspects of groundworksAnd I operate the plant myself

Want a price for general joinery?

Send a few photos and your postcode. I'll usually come back the same day.

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