Carpenter and Joiner Services

For a Carpenter or Joiner try Stone Home Improvements

What we do!

Established for over 40 years, Stone Home Improvements are a professional carpenter and joiner business with all relevant allied trades. We offer a comprehensive service direct to home owners, property developers, landlords and estate agents. Our area of work is a 30 mile radius of Tadworth Surrey, which includes areas of the following counties, London, Berkshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent and East Sussex. If you are unsure whether you fall within our area please contact us for confirmation. Examples of work that we offer are;

- all aspects of carpentry or joinery
- wardrobes
- book cases
- storage display units
- re-furnish staircases
- replacement front doors
- internal and external doors
- uPVC doors and windows
- replacement glazing
- solid/engineered flooring
- kitchens
- bathrooms
- exterior soffits/fascias/guttering
- whole house refurbishments

How we work!

Having discussed the customer’s requirements, we produce a quote or estimate for the work. We either work from existing plans or produce sketches for a client. Our joinery is usually done in our workshop. This can be provided to customers on a ‘supply only’ basis. Alternatively our carpenters can fit the piece on site and liaise with architects and planning officers as needed.

We are often able to suggest and co-ordinate qualified, local crafts people to do work like architectural drawing, structural engineering, electrical wiring, plumbing, ground works or roof tiling.

The difference between carpentry and joinery.

A joiner usually makes the timber products that a carpenter fixes on-site. So, for example, a joiner might be employed to make the doors, frame and windows for a new building. Traditionally joiners would ‘join’ wood in a workshop; whereas a carpenter would construct the building elements on site. Carpenters would install the products made by joiners, and construct features like the roof trusses, joisted floors and stud-work for partitioning the building. It is not true that the difference between a carpenter and joiner is in whether or not they use nails! Carpentry and joinery can therefore be understood as different specialisms within the same craft. In practice, there is crossover between the two disciplines, with apprentices learning many of the same wood-working techniques. However, it is worth asking about a firm or craft-person’s expertise, particularly if you need specialised components. A joiner may make beautiful staircases but a carpenter may do a better job in fitting it in your house. Similarly, a carpenter may skillfully hang and balance your doors but a joiner may make superior replicas.

How to choose between carpentry and joinery.

In deciding whether to employ a carpenter or joiner, it is best to pick crafts-people according to their experience relative to the project. For example, extensions or alterations to a historic building would require specialised knowledge and experience in building conservation. If you need both a carpenter and joiner, the advantage of employing a business that provides both services is simplicity: it is easier to manage a project if you do not have to coordinate several crafts-people; and it avoids divided responsibility if problems arise.

We offer carpentry and joinery.

At Stone Home Improvements, we specialise in carpentry but are also joiners that do cabinet making – a fine form of joinery, crafting free-standing furniture. To find out more about our work in Surrey, please see list of services and portfolio of work. For local carpentry or joinery within a 30 mile radius of Tadworth in Surrey, please call or contact us for a free quote or estimate.

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Surrey Carpenter & Joiner Tel: 07914 000 846