Building and carpentry on the same job, by the same people. Wall removals, garage conversions, kitchens and renovations, finished by the joiners who opened them up.
Building and carpentry work on houses across Bridgend county, the Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff, from a workshop in Pencoed. Wall removals and RSJ beams, chimney breast removals, garage conversions, kitchen fitting and full house renovations on the building side. Fitted wardrobes, media walls, panelling, doors, staircases, skirting and coving and alcove joinery on the carpentry side.
Most jobs here are a bit of both, which is the reason for doing them together. A knock-through is a building job until the steel is in and a carpentry job from then on, and the finish is what you actually live with.
The usual version of this is a builder who leaves when the structural work is done and a joiner who arrives a fortnight later to find the opening is not square and the floor levels do not meet. Everything that goes wrong at that handover becomes your problem to chase, because the two trades each think the other caused it.
Doing the opening and the joinery that goes back into it with the same people removes the handover. It also means the the finishing stage is being thought about while the the pipes and wiring stage is still open, which is when it is cheap to get right.
Rhys comes and looks at the job, measures it, and tells you what is involved including the parts you will not like. Anything that cannot be seen until the work starts gets flagged at that point as a possibility, rather than appearing on day three as a surprise.
Nothing is priced over the phone and nothing is calculated from a form. If you want a straight read before anybody visits, send a photo and a rough measurement.
On anything load-bearing, a structural engineer calculates the beam and says what it has to sit on it bears on. We install to those calculations, and building control inspects the work and signs it off. Ashwood does not produce the calculations and does not certify the structure. Nobody who builds this work should be the one certifying it.
Roughly, anything that changes the shape of the house. Carpentry is what gets fitted inside it. Taking a wall out, forming an opening, converting a garage, removing a chimney breast. The carpentry is what goes back in afterwards, and doing both is the point of using one firm.
Both. A set of internal doors is a normal job and so is a house being stripped back. The list of services on this site runs from one afternoon to several weeks on purpose.
Rhys and his brothers. The people who come and measure the job are the people who do it.
Those are specialist trades and they are brought in where the job needs them. Booking them and keeping them in order is part of what you are paying for, not something handed back to you.
Removing a load-bearing wall, taking out a chimney breast and converting a garage into a habitable room all do. Panelling, wardrobes, doors, skirting and finishing carpentry do not. If you are not sure which side your job falls, ask before you commit to anything.
A structural engineer calculates any beam and says what it has to sit on it bears on. We install to those calculations, and building control inspects the work and signs it off. Ashwood does not produce the calculations and does not certify the structure.
Usually, though the room being worked on is out of use for the duration and the middle of a structural job is loud and dusty. If you work from home, plan to be somewhere else for a couple of days.
Send a photo of the room or the wall with a rough measurement and you will get a straight read on what is involved. Rhys measures properly before any figure is given, so nothing is priced off a form.
Photographs of Rhys’s own work.
Written for the questions people ask before they ring anybody.
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