Carpentry & Joinery in Harrow & North West London

EliteShires Property Services provides carpentry and joinery in Harrow from £60 per hour: hanging and easing doors, fire doors with the correct seals, hinges and closers, skirtings and matched period mouldings, timber and laminate flooring, fitted alcove storage and staircase repairs. Defined jobs, such as hanging a set of doors, are a fixed price, and anything structural is flagged for a structural engineer.

Doors that catch, gaps at the skirting, a staircase that creaks, or a fitted storage idea that no flat-pack unit will actually solve because the space is not square.

Carpentry is the trade that most affects how finished a property feels. Doors that close properly, skirtings with no gaps, architraves that line up, a staircase that does not creak. None of it is dramatic, and all of it is immediately obvious when it has been done badly.

Carpentry at a glance

What carpentry with us includes

• Hanging, easing and adjusting internal and external doors
• Fire doors with the correct seals, hinges and closers
• Skirtings, architraves and matched mouldings
• Laminate, engineered and solid timber flooring
• Alcove shelving, wardrobes and understairs storage
• Staircase repairs, spindles and balustrades

Doors

Hanging new internal and external doors, easing and adjusting doors that catch or drop, replacing hinges, locks, latches and handles, fitting fire doors with the correct intumescent strips and closers where required, and rehanging doors that have been fitted the wrong way round by someone in a hurry.

Skirtings, architraves and mouldings

Replacing and matching existing profiles, which on period property often means having a profile made rather than accepting the nearest thing from a merchant. Scribing to uneven walls and floors so there are no gaps for the caulk to hide.

How it works, step by step

1. We look at the work and quote: hourly for repairs, fixed price for defined jobs
2. Where a profile needs matching we show you the options and the cost difference
3. Work is carried out and finished ready for decoration
4. Anything that turns out to be structural is flagged rather than covered up

What you end up with: Joinery that fits the space rather than approximately fits it, and an honest flag when a job needs a structural engineer instead of a carpenter.

Why people trust us

• Gas work, electrical inspection and energy assessment carried out under the relevant registrations, ask to see the card
• Every price confirmed before we attend, and not revised afterwards
• Coded observations quoted line by line, so you can take the work elsewhere
• A time slot rather than a morning-or-afternoon window
• Work photographed before and after, and reported
• We tell you when you do not need something we sell

We are building a review profile under this name and would rather show you none than borrow someone else's. Ask us for references from landlords and we will put you in touch.

Who this is for

Homeowners improving a property, landlords repairing wear between tenancies, and anyone with a period property where nothing is square.

Mistakes we see most often

Accepting the nearest merchant profile for skirting and architrave in a period property. It is visibly wrong once it is on the wall, and having a run machined to match costs less than most people expect. The other is fitting a fire door as though it were an ordinary door: the seals, hinges, gaps and closer are what make the assembly perform, not the leaf on its own.

What affects the price

Whether materials need matching. Standard doors and merchant-profile skirting are quick. Matching a period moulding, scribing to out-of-square walls or building fitted storage into an alcove is slower and priced as a defined job.

Whichever applies, you are given the figure before we attend and we do not revise it afterwards. If something genuinely unforeseen turns up mid-job we stop and tell you rather than adding it to the invoice.

Fitted storage and second fix

Alcove shelving, understairs storage, wardrobes and cupboards, loft hatches and ladders, boxing in pipework, kitchen worktop and unit adjustments, and the general second-fix joinery that follows plumbing and electrical work.

Staircases and structural repairs

Creaking treads, loose balustrades, replacing spindles and newel caps, and repairing damaged strings. Where a repair turns out to be structural rather than cosmetic we will tell you, and we will tell you when it needs a structural engineer rather than a carpenter.

We serve these areas

Everything on this page is available across all four areas we cover. Pick your area for local detail and prices:

• Harrow (HA1, HA2, HA3)
• Kenton (HA3, NW9)
• Stanmore (HA7)
• Edgware (HA8)

Where we cover

Available across Harrow, Kenton, Stanmore, Edgware. Call and we will confirm the price for your specific property.

Booking it

Call 0203 667 1333 or use the form below. We confirm the price against your property before attending, and give you a slot rather than a vague window.

Official sources

• GOV.UK: Fire safety, Approved Document B
• GOV.UK: Protection from falling, collision and impact, Approved Document K (stairs and balustrades)

Last reviewed September 2026 by EliteShires Property Services.