Under-stair rebuild
An under-stair space opened up and reframed, then finished with a reclaimed panelled pine door and tongue-and-groove to match the original hallway.
Areas covered · West Wiltshire
Carpenter in Melksham
A carpenter in Melksham is, for us, barely a journey — the workshop is five miles down the A365 in Trowbridge. Carpentry and joinery for homes across Melksham and the surrounding areas: bespoke fitted furniture, kitchens, loft conversions, building carpentry and repairs.
5.0 from 11 Google reviews
Five miles away
A carpenter on Melksham’s doorstep
Palmer’s Woodworking is run by Alex Palmer from a workshop at 6 Court Street in Trowbridge — five miles down the A365. That proximity changes what is worth taking on. A single sticking door or one wall of shelving is a job we can do properly in Melksham, where a firm travelling from Bristol or Swindon would need to bundle it with something bigger to make the trip pay.
The work is domestic and commercial: bespoke fitted furniture and joinery for homes, and first and second fix carpentry on site for builders working across Melksham and the surrounding areas. Every job is quoted, made and finished by the same person, which is slower to book and considerably better to live with.
Melksham, Bowerhill, Beanacre, Shaw, Atworth, Seend and Holt are all inside the usual working radius, and the wider Wiltshire towns — Trowbridge, Chippenham and Devizes — are each within twenty minutes.
Services
Carpentry services in Melksham
Bespoke kitchens and fitted furniture
Kitchen creation and installation, from a single run of units to a full fit-out with worktops scribed to the wall. Fitted wardrobes, alcove shelving, media walls, window seats and boot rooms — all made to the room rather than assembled from standard carcasses and packed out with trim. Fitted wardrobes
Joinery work
Doors and door linings, architrave, skirting and mouldings matched to what is already in the house. Staircases, handrails and balustrades. Gates, cladding, decking and external timber in hardwood or treated softwood. Repairs to windows and period joinery where replacement would be a waste of a good frame.
Loft conversions and extensions
The carpentry side: structural timber, new floors, roof work and studwork on the first fix, then doors, skirting, architrave and finishing joinery on the second. Both normally need Building Regulations approval — Part K governs the pitch, rise and going of a new staircase and the handrail height, and Part L the insulation. We are carpenters rather than a design-and-build contractor, so you will want a builder alongside us on anything structural. Loft conversions
Garden offices and garden rooms
A separate insulated building in the garden, framed and built on site rather than delivered flat-packed. Usually permitted development, so no planning application, and far less disruptive than extending or converting the loft. Garden offices
Carpentry repairs
The small stuff, done properly. Doors that catch, floorboards that creak, rotten window sections cut out and let in, gates that have dropped on their hinges, flooring laid, ceilings plasterboarded and skirting replaced. No job too small is meant literally — it is most of what we do.
Recent projects
Work near Melksham
We have not photographed a job in Melksham itself yet — when we do it will be here. These two are the closest recent work: one in Trowbridge, five miles south, and one in a village outside Devizes.
Photographs of this job to follow
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.
Experience and quality
Who actually turns up
Alex Palmer, and only Alex Palmer. It is worth knowing before you ring, because it decides what the service is like.
Booking takes longer than it would with a firm running three teams, and we cannot put four carpenters on your house next week. What you get instead is that the person who priced the job is the person who does it, and the person you ring if something needs adjusting six months later. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor and nothing is finished by whoever was free that day.
Eleven customers have reviewed the business on Google and all eleven gave it five stars — for fencing, cladding, flooring, gates, skirting and architrave, plasterboarding, a bespoke undercroft door, and a horsebox converted into a home office. That range is the honest picture of the work.
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 Melksham — common questions
How quickly can you get to a job in Melksham?
Melksham is about five miles from the workshop in Trowbridge, so it is one of the easiest places for us to work. Small jobs that would not be worth a long drive are worth doing properly here, and coming back to adjust something is no trouble.
Do you do loft conversions and extensions in Melksham?
We do the carpentry: structural timber, new floors, roof work, studwork, staircases and balustrades on the first fix, then doors, skirting and architrave on the second. We are not a design-and-build contractor, so you will need a builder and, for most lofts and extensions, Building Regulations approval and sometimes planning permission.
Do you work for builders as well as homeowners?
Both. A good deal of the work is domestic, direct for the homeowner, but we also take on first and second fix carpentry on site for builders around Melksham and the surrounding areas.
What does carpentry cost in Melksham?
Day rate work is quoted by the day; fitted joinery is quoted by the job after a look at it. Either way you get a written estimate before anything starts, and it is free.
Get a free estimate in Melksham
Five miles away, so it is no trouble to come and look. Written estimate, no charge and no obligation.