Carpentry in Kent
Carpenter in
Faversham.
Faversham has more listed buildings than almost any comparable market town in England, and working here means accepting a basic fact: the building was not built to modern tolerances, it never was, and trying to impose them on it makes the job worse rather than better.
What the housing stock is like
The most repair-led area we cover, and the one where scribing rather than measuring is the normal way to work.
- Dominant
Listed and timber framed buildings
Abbey Street, Court Street and the creekside lanes. Unusually complete survival, and protected accordingly.
- Common
Georgian frontages
Through the centre. Handsome, regular from the street and frequently anything but behind it.
- Pockets
Victorian and later housing
The streets out towards Ospringe. Conventional stock in a decidedly unconventional town.
What we are asked for most in Faversham
- 01
Splicing repairs into existing timber
The default answer in a protected building. Cut out what has failed, splice in matching material, keep everything sound.
- 02
Scribed fitted joinery
Nothing here is square, so cupboards and units are scribed to the opening rather than cut to a single dimension.
- 03
Matching historic section sizes
Original timbers are rarely a size you can buy. Matching the section matters as much as matching the profile.
Why we measure in five places, not one
In a modern house you measure an opening once and cut to it. In a Faversham building that approach produces a cupboard with a tapering gap down one side, because the opening is 12mm wider at the bottom than the top and the floor falls away towards the wall.
So we measure top, middle and bottom, both diagonals, and the floor level across the opening, then scribe the piece to fit what is actually there. It takes longer at the survey and longer at the fit, and it is the only way the finished thing looks like it belongs.
Repair before replacement
In a listed building replacement is rarely the permitted answer and almost never the right one. An oak wall plate with 200mm of rot at one end does not need replacing, it needs that 200mm cut out and a matched splice let in.
That approach keeps original fabric, is far more likely to get consent, and usually costs less than a wholesale replacement once you account for what a full replacement disturbs. Consent itself is the owner's responsibility, and in Faversham it is worth establishing early.
Where we work around Faversham
We cover ME13 and the surrounding villages. Every job starts with a free site visit and a written fixed quote, and the carpenter who measures it is the carpenter who builds and installs it.
- Ospringe
- Preston
- Boughton
- Selling
- Oare
- Davington
- Painters Forstal
Recent work
across the South East
Working in Faversham
Not for us, it is normal in Faversham. Pieces are scribed to the opening rather than cut to a dimension, and we measure in several places before anything is made.
Usually yes, and in a listed building it is normally the only answer that will get consent. We splice into sound material and match the existing section.
Often, and it is the owner's responsibility rather than ours. We would far rather you confirm the position before we start, because a refused proposal is much cheaper to discover in week one.