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Shelving and Storage Across Hampshire
Built-in storage is one of the few jobs where a carpenter beats anything you can buy. An alcove is never a standard width, walls are never plumb, and a flat-pack unit in a Victorian recess leaves gaps down both sides. Built in place, it fits.
Alcove shelving
The classic job in a Hampshire terrace or semi — the recesses either side of a chimney breast, which are almost always different widths and rarely square. Shelves scribed to the wall, supported properly, and finished ready for paint. Fixed shelves, adjustable, or with cupboards below.
Floating shelves
Clean and modern, but they live or die on the fixings. A floating shelf carries its whole load on concealed brackets, so what is behind the plasterboard matters more than the shelf does. We find the studs or use the right fixings for the wall, and tell you honestly what weight it will take.
Garage and utility storage
Heavy-duty shelving for tools, tins, garden kit and the boxes that never get unpacked. Built to the depth and height that suits the space, and strong enough for what actually goes on it rather than what a catalogue says.
Understairs and awkward spaces
Sloping ceilings, boxed-in pipework, the cupboard under the stairs — the spaces that defeat off-the-shelf storage are exactly where built-in earns its money.
Free site visit and written quote. Insured tradesmen and a 12-month workmanship guarantee.