Heritage Joiners
About Heritage Joiners
I'm Rob. I started at 16 with furniture — polishing furniture, delivering it, seeing how it was put together, and then making pieces myself. That was the start of it: timber, tools, finish, and learning how something should be made before anyone sees the final coat.
I hold an NVQ Level 2 in Carpentry and Joinery and am a fully qualified apprentice trained bench hand joiner, time served, with over 35 years' experience. I trained in the workshop making doors, windows, stairs, vanity units, furniture, and general joinery in hardwoods and softwoods, then spent decades on site across refurbishments, commercial work, old buildings, listed properties, insurance restoration, estate buildings, museums, and full strip-out-to-finish jobs. I am also a Pergo Certified Installer, registered to fit Pergo laminate and wood flooring.
Heritage Joiners is general joinery and carpentry, not a repair-only business. Doors, kitchens, stairs, skirting, first fix, second fix, roofing carpentry, flooring, fitted work, and small repairs all sit here. The heritage side is still important because old buildings need judgement, but practical carpentry and joinery services for homes across Yorkshire comes first.
Good joinery is problem-solving
Every building throws something at you: an out-of-square opening, a weak frame, bad angles, old repairs, uneven floors, difficult roof geometry, or timber that is not behaving the way the drawing says it should. Good joinery is problem-solving.
The skill is finding the right solution - structurally sound, practical to build, and finished so it looks right. If one method will not work, there is usually another way to set it out, frame it, cut it, or repair it.
Where we work
Based in Pontefract and working across West Yorkshire, including Wakefield, Castleford, Featherstone, Knottingley, Normanton, and Leeds. I also travel wider across Yorkshire for the right timber-led projects, especially where old-building experience, hardwood and softwood knowledge, or workshop-trained and site-proven joinery is useful.
Oak in the workshop — boards and sections ready for the bench.
How we approach timber work
Set it out correctly
Whether it is a kitchen, staircase, roof structure, or fitted storage, the setting out has to be right before the first cut. Bad preparation shows up later.
Repair honestly
When a period building or older timber element can be repaired soundly, I will say so. When it cannot, I will explain why replacement is the more honest route.
Finish with care
The last stage matters. Trim, fitting, timber choice, careful preparation, and finish matching all decide whether a job sits properly in the building.
Notable work and proof
My working history includes Ironbridge Museum, Birmingham Airport, the Jewellery Quarter art gallery in Birmingham, Norfolk estate buildings, old and listed buildings, commercial sites, and full refurbishments. The Pontefract proof is The Counting House: Heritage Joiners contributed specialist oak joinery and restoration carpentry to The Counting House in Pontefract - a project later recognised with the Heritage Award at Pontefract Civic Society's 2025 Design Awards.
View Counting House →Get in touch
Send photos first and I can usually give a faster, clearer answer on whether the job fits and what the next step should be.