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Timber cladding to a rear elevation
A tired rendered rear wall re-clad in horizontal timber, battened out and ventilated behind, cut around an existing window and returned neatly into the door reveal.
Areas covered · Central Wiltshire
Carpenter in Devizes
Looking for a carpenter in Devizes? We work across the town and the villages around it — bespoke carpentry and joinery, fitted furniture and storage, doors, flooring and external timber. Our most recent job out this way was a timber-clad rear elevation in a village just outside Devizes.
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Recent work near Devizes
A job we actually did out here
Most carpentry pages for Devizes name the town and stop. This is the job, and the photographs are from the day.
Services
Carpentry and joinery services in Devizes
Welcome to a one-carpenter business rather than a company with a call centre. Alex Palmer has worked across Wiltshire for years and covers Devizes and the villages around it from a workshop twelve miles away in Trowbridge.
Bespoke furniture, fitted storage and kitchens
Fitted wardrobes, alcove shelving, cupboards, window seats and boot rooms, plus kitchen fitting from a single run of units to a full installation with worktops scribed to the wall. Integrated storage is the strongest angle in this market and it is a good part of what we build — made to the room, not bought to a standard size and packed out with trim. Fitted wardrobes
Alongside that: doors and door linings, architrave and skirting, staircases and balustrades, wooden flooring laid and repaired, external cladding, gates and fencing, general building carpentry on extensions and loft conversions, and garden offices built from the base up. Materials are named in the estimate — oak, ash and walnut for hardwood joinery, redwood for painted work because it holds a mitre and takes a finish, treated softwood or Accoya outside where rot matters more than grain.
Period property
Working in the Devizes conservation area
Devizes has one of the largest conservation areas in Wiltshire and several hundred listed buildings, which is exactly the kind of housing stock where off-the-shelf joinery does not go in. Walls lean, openings are out of square, and a modern moulding profile next to a Georgian one looks wrong from across the room.
Matching an existing profile, replacing like with like, and scribing new work to walls that stopped being straight two centuries ago is ordinary work rather than a special request. Where a job would mean fixing into historic fabric or changing something visible from the street, listed building or conservation-area consent may be needed — that is the owner’s to obtain, and we will tell you plainly when we think you need it rather than quietly getting on with it.
What customers say
Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews
5 out of 5
Alex delivered a bit of an unconventional project for us, conversion of a vintage horse box trailer to a home office. I'm delighted with the result. Alex is enthusiastic, creative, and skilfull. He worked hard to achieve a high quality outcome. Highly recommended.
5 out of 5
Awesome work from Alex, great attention to detail, thorough in getting the job done, and he cleaned up after himself as well - wouldn't hesitate to recommend (fitted architrave and skirting around our three bed bungalow)
5 out of 5
Had wooden back gate made by Alex for side of property. Excellent craftsmanship and quality gate made of high grade materials fixtures and fittings as required to make it very secure.
Questions
Carpentry in Devizes — common questions
Have you worked in Devizes before?
Yes. The most recent job was a rear elevation re-clad in horizontal timber in a village just outside Devizes — battened out and ventilated behind, cut around an existing window and returned into the door reveal. It is on this page.
Do you make fitted furniture and storage for Devizes homes?
Yes, and it is a good part of what we do. Fitted wardrobes, alcove shelving, window seats, boot rooms and integrated storage, all made to the room rather than bought as standard carcasses and trimmed to fit.
Do you work on listed and conservation-area property in Devizes?
Regularly. Devizes has a large conservation area and a great many listed buildings, and matching an existing moulding or replacing like with like is ordinary work for us. Listed building consent is the owner's to obtain — we will tell you plainly when we think a job needs it.
How far from Devizes do you travel?
Devizes is about twelve miles from the workshop in Trowbridge. Potterne, Rowde, Bishops Cannings, Urchfont, Seend and Market Lavington are all comfortably inside the normal working radius.
Get a free quote in Devizes
Tell Alex what the job is and he will come and look at it. Written estimate, free, and no obligation at the end of it.