Carpentry in Kent
Carpenter across
the Medway Towns.
Medway holds one of the largest concentrations of Victorian terraced housing anywhere in the South East, built fast and in quantity for the dockyard and never really replaced. One fact shapes nearly everything we do here, and it is that the houses are all roughly the same age, the same size and in need of the same things.
What the housing stock is like
Our highest proportion of landlord and letting agent work, driven by the volume of rented Victorian terrace stock.
- Dominant
Victorian terraces
Street after street across Chatham, Gillingham and Luton. A large share subdivided into flats or run as shared houses.
- Pockets
Georgian and listed buildings
Rochester High Street and the lanes behind it. Protected, older and a very different job.
- Common
Modern waterfront apartments
Chatham Maritime and the regenerated riverside. Newer stock with compliance-led rather than character-led requirements.
What we are asked for most in Medway
- 01
Void turnarounds between tenancies
Our most frequent Medway call. Doors, trim, stair parts and storage put back to lettable condition inside a short window.
- 02
Fire door installation and upgrades
The volume of conversions and shared houses means fire doors are a recurring rather than one-off requirement across most portfolios here.
- 03
Stair repair on worn Victorian flights
Terrace flights are typically 130 years old and treads go before anything else. Replacement treads and risers cost a fraction of a new flight.
Why Medway is a landlord market
Because so much of the stock is the same, so much of it is rented. We work for landlords and letting agents across Medway more than anywhere else we cover, and the requirement is different from a homeowner's: it is about turnaround speed, durability, and passing inspection.
That shapes how we price and how we work. On a void we will give you a fixed figure and a number of days rather than an open-ended day rate, because a week of overrun on an empty property costs you more than the carpentry does.
Terrace joinery, repeated
The upside of uniform stock is that we know these houses. The chimney breast recesses, the stair geometry, the ceiling heights and the moulding profiles repeat street to street, so a set of alcove cupboards or a stair repair here is quicker and more predictable than the same job in a mixed area.
Around Rochester High Street it changes completely. The Georgian and listed buildings there need the repair-first approach we use in Faversham and Canterbury, with matched sections and nothing thrown away that can be saved.
Where we work around Medway
We cover ME1 to ME8 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.
- Rochester
- Chatham
- Gillingham
- Strood
- Rainham
- Walderslade
- Hempstead
- Cuxton
Recent work
across the South East
Working in Medway
On a standard Medway terrace, usually inside a week for the carpentry, and we will give you the number of days at quote stage rather than after we start. Empty weeks cost you more than we do.
Yes. If the houses are similar, which in Medway they usually are, we can price a repeatable scope per property so you can budget across the portfolio rather than job by job.
Yes, with the same repair-first approach we use in Faversham. Consent is the owner's responsibility and worth confirming before anything starts.