Joinery made at the bench, in Ballyroan

We have been cutting joints in the same shed off the Clonad Road since 1996. Two benches, a spindle moulder that is older than either of us, and work that goes out finished rather than flat.

Most of what leaves here is oak, ash or Douglas fir, air-dried in the shed at the back for two years before it is touched. We buy Irish-grown timber where we can and take what the board gives us — if a leaf has to be book-matched, that decides the layout, not the drawing.

What we take on

Kitchens and utility rooms, staircases and handrails, sash and casement windows, internal doors, and repair work on older joinery. We do not fit worktops in stone and we do not do site carpentry — there are people nearby who do both better than we would.