What I do

Carpentry services in Bridgwater, from one door rehung
to the whole house

I’m Matt Thorne, a carpenter and joiner in Bridgwater, working across Somerset from Taunton to Weston-super-Mare. This is the lot, not a shortlist. If what you want isn’t here, ring me anyway and I’ll tell you straight whether it’s my kind of job.

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13 jobs I take on, all of them fitted by me

Internal and external doors fitted

Hung true to the frame they’re going in, which in an older house is never square. Handles and hinges fitted, one door or a full house of them.

PVC
Timber
Composite

Anthracite composite front door with leaded glass panels, chrome furniture and a letterplate, fitted into a brick opening — A composite front door, hung and ironmongery on.

Flooring

Set out so the boards land full width where everybody looks, at the doors and down the middle of the room.

LVT
Laminate
Engineered board

Mid oak LVT flooring laid up to a set of French doors — LVT, run out to the garden doors.

Skirting, architrave and frames

Cut and scribed to the wall you’ve actually got, not the one it was meant to be.

New skirting fitted against light oak flooring in an empty room — Fresh skirting over a new floor.

Media walls

Fire, telly and every cable inside the wall, with shelving and cupboards either side. Flat to the wall, and it can go in any room.

Fitted media wall with an inset log-effect fire, television and a lit slatted oak panel — Inset fire, lit slatted panel, cables hidden.

Faux chimney breasts

A proper chimney breast built where there isn’t one, with an opening for the fire and a solid oak beam across it as a mantel.

Faux chimney breast built in stud and board with a solid oak beam mantel and a recess for a fire — Mid build, so you can see how it’s made.

Staircase refurbishment

Oak cladding over your existing treads and risers, with new handrail, spindles and newel posts. It looks like a new flight without tearing the old one out.

Oak handrail and newel post with slim black metal spindles fitted to an existing staircase — Oak handrail, black spindles, same stairs underneath.

Fitted wardrobes and built-in storage

Made to measure for the wall it goes on and scribed to the ceiling, so it looks like it grew there.

Wall of fitted wardrobes with oak cottage style doors — Six doors across one wall, in oak.

Shelving units

Alcoves, chimney breasts and the awkward corners nothing off a shelf will fit. Built into the space rather than stood in front of it.

Built-in shelving unit at carcass stage, made to fit an alcove — A games console unit, before it was painted.

Kitchen fitting and worktops

Units levelled and squared to a room that isn’t either. I fit the lot myself, so the standard on the last unit is the standard on the first.

Worktops I’ll do on their own too, on the kitchen you already have. Cut and joined on site with the sink and hob cut in, and it’s the cheapest way to make a tired kitchen look new.

Fitted kitchen with worktops installed beneath a vaulted timber ceiling — Fitted under a vaulted ceiling.

Timber wall partitions

Stud walls to split a room, with the door frame in and shelf recesses formed while it’s built rather than cut in afterwards.

Plastered timber stud partition wall with a glazed door and two built-in shelf recesses — Partition wall with the shelf detail built in.

Decking

Framed, levelled and laid to drain properly, so it doesn’t sit wet and go green in its first winter. Handrails and spindles to match where the deck sits up off the ground.