Old houses deserve a carpenter who knows what they were.

Aaron and a crew of five or six carpenters, plus painters and trade hands, restoring weatherboard homes, timber floors, sash windows and stained glass doors across Melbourne's inner north.

We run our own timber and reclamation yard in Preston, so the timber gets matched before anything is ordered.

Restoration work, new work, and the odd film set. Whatever the job, you deal with real carpenters, not sales assistants.

Home restoration

Bringing a period home back without sanding the character off it. We match what was there first, then repair before we replace.

Weatherboards and cladding

Rotten boards cut out and replaced in the right shape, straight off our own racks in Preston, so the wall reads as one wall.

Timber flooring

New boards, patched boards and reclaimed boards laid and finished, including lining work overhead where a room needs warming up.

Extensions and renovations

Adding to an old house so the new part belongs. Framing, structural carpentry and the fit off, handled by the same small team.

Doors and windows

Sash windows made to run properly again, salvaged stained glass doors and windows repaired, hung and made to seal.

Film set construction

Twenty years building sets to a deadline that does not move. It is where the problem solving comes from, and houses get the benefit.

Decking and outdoor timber

Decks, pergolas and outdoor timber built to take a Melbourne summer and the rain that follows it.

Fences and gates

Paling fences and timber gates, straight and plumb, hung so they still close properly in a year.

General carpentry as well, from a single door that will not shut to a fence that needs starting again. If you are not sure it is our sort of job, ring and ask.

When a board or a moulding is rotten we match the exact shape of the old one out of our own yard, so the repair does not stand out.

We own the timber yard, so the timber comes first and the price comes down.

Our own timber and reclamation yard sits in Preston, stocked with reclaimed and new timber, mouldings, and salvaged stained glass doors and windows. It means we can match a hundred year old board instead of talking you into something close enough.

It is open to the public too, and our timber pricing is better than Bunnings or Bowens.

Ring the yard on 0480 551 167

Real jobs, real houses, photographed as we left them.

What people say once we have packed up.

"Top shelf work, and very fair price for the quality of work."

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"Excellent communication and price."

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"I am very happy with the service I received and I highly recommend them."

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Based in Preston, working across the inner north.

Being ten minutes from most jobs is part of how we work. It means the yard is close, the timber arrives when it should, and Aaron can drop past without it becoming a day of it.

Preston Thornbury Northcote Reservoir Coburg Brunswick Fairfield Alphington Ivanhoe Heidelberg Fitzroy North Carlton North

The questions we get asked most.

Tell Aaron what the house is doing, and he will tell you what it needs.

Ring the yard, or come and stand in it. Either way you will be talking to a carpenter.

0480 551 167

The yard is open to the public as well, so you can come and look at the timber first.