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What does a carpenter do?

Whether you’re planning a major renovation on your home, or you simply want to make things look a bit nicer, hiring a carpenter can help you with many different tasks. Carpenters take on a wide range of work, such as fixing areas of houses and building furniture from scratch.

Carpentry work is generally broken down into two types: rough and finish. Rough carpentry refers to work that doesn’t have an intricate look, as it’s covered up – often by bricks, tiles, or plasterwork. Finish carpentry covers the work that will be on display, so needs to have a nicer finish. Furniture, decking, and window frames all fall into this second category. 

Decking

Don't know what to do with all that space in your backyard? Hire a carpenter who specialises in building decks. A decking specialist can add an outdoor deck or upgrade an existing one that opens up your outdoor space. This is great if you want to entertain guests or eat outside as a family during the sunny months. 

Cabinet making

Cabinetmakers are one example of finish carpentry, because of the high level of detail that goes into their end products. Unlike structural work, it’s important that a cabinet looks nice, so this type of carpenter is a lot more focused on fine details. Cabinetmakers often specialise in other forms of furniture making too. 

Refinishing carpentry

While structural carpentry is concerned with jobs on the large end of the scale, trim or refinishing carpentry looks at the small end. A trim carpenter is the way to go if you want someone to fix up your skirting boards, cornicing, or a similar aspect of your home.

Custom made furniture

A house isn’t a home without a few personal touches, and if you’d rather avoid the cookie-cutter Ikea approach to decorating your property, hiring a carpenter to create custom-made furniture can make you stand out. Whether you want chairs, tables, or a shoe rack, there’s someone nearby who can help.

Joinery

Joinery services encompass the craftsmanship of creating and joining wood in workshops, distinct from on-site carpentry. These services range from bespoke projects to crafting timber buildings, emphasizing precision and passion. Joiners play a crucial role in interior woodwork, window and door production, and specialized construction, offering tailored and quality timber solutions.

Recent Carpentry tasks in City of Edinburgh

Replace my decking

£700

Dalry, City of Edinburgh

23rd Feb 2024

Old plastic decking tiles and old wooden decking need cleared and replaced. Replace upright post on back fence. Add struts to back fence to store kayak.

Re felt garden shed 8x6 apex

£150

Southhouse, City of Edinburgh

23rd Jan 2024

Re felt garden shed 8x6 apex roof - Due date: Before Friday, 26 January 2024

Build my pc

£100

Granton, City of Edinburgh

2nd Jan 2024

I need someone to build my pc, I have all the parts so I just need someone fo build it for me - Due date: Flexible

Joiner needed to fix wooden door handle

£60

Marchmont, City of Edinburgh

18th Dec 2023

Door handle came off wooden door, was glued back on some time ago, has now dislodged again. Would like it fixed into the door using screws so that it does not come off again. This is likely to be a job for a joiner - Due date: Before Friday, 29 December 2023

Jonathan came the following day to fix my door handle. It was an old wooden door and to be honest I expected him to experience some problems fixing it but there were no issues at all. Communicated with me as per my instructions, went in, did the job and left. No issues at all. Highly recommended when you need a joiner.

Build garden shed

£150

Cammo, City of Edinburgh

23rd Oct 2023

Build a garden shed / bike store - Due date: Needs to be done on Thursday, 2 November 2023

Build custom baby stair gates

£250

Canonmills, City of Edinburgh

17th Sep 2023

We’ve moved into a New Town townhouse with stone spiral stairs and iron railings. Usual baby gates won’t work. We’re looking for 5x custom baby gates to be built and installed. - Due date: Needs to be done on Sunday, 17 September 2023

Some sanding and painting. tile my entry. some joinery

£500

Canongate, City of Edinburgh

23rd Jun 2023

Some of my woodwork needs sanding and painting. Couple of skirting boards, door jam, old patches etc. I'd like to pull up the linoleum in my entry and install tiles. I already have tiles left over from another project. Various carpentry jobs if you have extra time - Due date: Flexible

Shed to be cleared and removed

£450

Carrick Knowe, City of Edinburgh

17th Jun 2023

Shed is damaged and in disrepair, looking to have some items cleared out from the shed and then the shed itself taken apart and removed - Due date: Before Friday, 23 June 2023

Shed foundations/installation

£300

Drylaw, City of Edinburgh

15th Jun 2023

Area slabbing / partly shed base, metal shed installation (6x8) Area to be paved: 5.5x3.5m (16.5x11.5ft) - Due date: Flexible

Fridge door attaching to cupboard door

£50

West End, City of Edinburgh

3rd Apr 2023

We require help with attaching a new fridge door with built in cabinet door - needs to be done by Thursday 06/04/2023

Build up of an exhibition stand (panel walls & graphics installation)

£100

West End, City of Edinburgh

27th Mar 2023

Build up of an exhibition stand (2x2m space), no tools required. Back walls and graphics installation similar to the one in the attached image. - Due date: Needs to be done on Tuesday, 18 April 2023

We need our existing decking replaced because it is rotten.

£1,234

Dreghorn, City of Edinburgh

15th Jan 2023

The existing garden decking needs replaced either with treated boards or composite boards and we’d like a price for both options. - Due date: Before Sunday, 30 April 2023

Someone to build and attach a interior door in an archway

£250

Trinity, City of Edinburgh

16th Nov 2022

I currently have an open archway in my kitchen for pantry storage. I would like a door build and fixed for the archway. Approximate dimensions are 74 x 214 cm - Due date: Flexible

New felt roof for garden shed

£100

Alnwickhill, City of Edinburgh

8th Nov 2022

I need a new roof on my garden shed - Due date: Needs to be done on Wednesday, 9 November 2022

She's built and old one removed

£100

Stoneyhill, East Lothian

2nd Oct 2022

I need a new shed built and the old one taken down and removed - Due date: Flexible

Install shed

£150

Straiton, Midlothian

10th Jun 2022

I would like to install the shed - Due date: Before Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Need drawers made to fit a space

£175

Coates, City of Edinburgh

20th Apr 2022

Lookig to have drawers made to fit a space under a counter on a staircase, would need to be measured for size. The drawers would need to fit this space under the counter for the first 3 steps. Perhaps a cupboard also. - Due date: Flexible

Joinery - box in electrics and new skirting

£400

Abbeyhill, City of Edinburgh

21st Mar 2022

1. Box in electric meter in hall. Still need to be accessible but looks ugly as is! 2. New traditional skirting for bedroom circa 9m sq. - Due date: Flexible

American style fridge freezer

£200

Fountainbridge, City of Edinburgh

27th Feb 2022

Looking for help with a really odd job. It’s for a problem we’ve got at our home in Bruntsfield. We have a Samsung American style fridge/freezer that decided to pack up last week. It’s 12/13 years old and an engineer has confirmed the compressor has gone so we are looking to get a new appliance. Now the tricky bit - we originally had the appliance on our ground floor but had some building works and relocated our kitchen to the basement 10 years ago - despite every effort the fridge/freezer was too big to get down the staircase. It couldn’t pivot sufficiently to get down the steps to the basement. Because we had builders on site at the time I remember they had a platform that could go up and down which they used to solve the problem. They were able to take our appliance out one of the rear ground floor windows, place it on the platform and then lower it to the basement level. It needed a few chaps to keep it steady but they moved it down so it could be placed in the new kitchen space on the lower level. I don’t know if you have anything similar to this platform. An alternative would be for any new appliance to be transported through a tenement stairwell in the flats opposite our home and then carried over our garden wall but that wall is around 175cm tall so it would still require the appliance to be raised to a considerable height. Rough dimensions of the broken appliance are 188cm high, 62cm deep and 94cm wide. It might be better too if the switchover could be done over 2 days so the existing machine could be taken out first. I can then get it picked up and disposed of at the same time the new machine arrives. The new machine could then be waiting in our hallway for you to return and either take it through the window (as was done before all those years ago) or carried around to the tenements behind our home and brought over the wall. Thanks for considering. - Due date: Flexible

Joiner to remove wood on bottom of door

£23

Abbeyhill, City of Edinburgh

11th Dec 2021

I need about 1cm cut off the bottom of a garden door. The door cannot be removed so you'd probably need an electric saw to remove in situ. - Due date: Flexible