Floor joists
Traditional, engineered and posi joist floors, including new floors formed inside existing barns and buildings.
Areas · West Norfolk
Carpenters in King's Lynn
Carpenters in King's Lynn, covering West Norfolk from South Lynn out to the Wash and the fen villages. Free site visit and a written estimate, or send drawings for a package price.
King's Lynn has been on AJB Group's job list since 2021, which makes it the longest running town outside Lincolnshire. The first apartment scheme here predates most of the company, and the work has kept coming back: barn conversions, renovations, kitchens and the road east into the rest of Norfolk.
West Norfolk work tends to arrive as conversion rather than new build. Barns, outbuildings, older town properties and infill schemes, where the existing structure decides the sequence and the carpenter has to work out how a new floor or a new roof lands in a building nobody measured properly in the first place.
Proof
Work we have done in King's Lynn.
A full barn conversion, for Eastern Construction Consultants. Just outside King's Lynn, a whole barn taken on for a long standing client. The task was reinstalling a traditional set of joists to create a new first floor, making use of every bit of space available in what was a tight building, and leaving two bedrooms and an en suite upstairs.
Forming a floor inside an existing barn is not the same job as building one on a new plot. Nothing is square, the walls are rarely parallel, the bearing has to be found in masonry that was never designed for a modern floor load, and the finished ceiling height downstairs and headroom upstairs both have to come out of the same depth. The first fix team then carried on through the building with structural floors, ceilings and external walls.
Seven apartments at South Lynn. One of AJB's larger early projects: 7 two and three bed apartments just outside South Lynn, where the company led the full carpentry contract. The first storey joist set went in first, then joists and roofs were completed by the back end of summer, and the job was pushed through first fix to completion.
A kitchen fitted in two days, for HB Developments. A new renovation in King's Lynn where the kitchen was installed on a two day turnaround and left ready for worktop templates. Two days is a working answer to a real problem on a renovation: the template survey is the pinch point in every kitchen programme, and every day the cabinets are not in is a day the worktops are not ordered.
And the vans. The signwriting on the vehicles that turn up was done by All Signs (King's Lynn) Ltd, which is a small thing, but it is the sort of detail that tells you whether a contractor actually works in a town or just lists it.
King's Lynn at a glance
- Distance
- About 30 miles, straight out on the A17
- Working here since
- 2021
- Barn conversion
- Traditional joist set, new first floor, 2 bedrooms and en suite
- South Lynn
- 7 two and three bed apartments, full carpentry contract
- Kitchens
- Two day turnaround for HB Developments
- Onward
- Stoke Ferry, Wells-next-the-Sea, Cromer
What we do here
The services King's Lynn asks for most.
Extensions and renovations
Barn conversions, renovations and extensions, managed turnkey with in house trades where you want them.
First fix carpentry
Structural floors, ceilings, external walls and studwork, run through a whole building rather than plot by plot.
Roofing carpentry
Cut and trussed roofs on apartments, houses and conversions, including the roofs on the South Lynn scheme.
Kitchens
Supply and fit or fit only, at renovation pace. Over 100 cabinet colours, UK manufactured.
Cladding
Timber, cedar, larch, composite, shiplap and uPVC, on the ventilated build up the Norfolk weather requires.
Getting to you
Straight out on the A17.
King's Lynn is about 30 miles from Spalding and it is the easiest run AJB makes: one road, the A17, through Holbeach, Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge, Terrington St Clement and into the town. Roughly 45 minutes, and the same road serves Wisbech via the A1101 turn.
Areas covered from here include South Lynn, North Lynn, West Lynn, Gaywood, Clenchwarton, Terrington St Clement, Tilney All Saints, Middleton, East Winch, Castle Rising, Downham Market and Stoke Ferry, where AJB replaced the roof on the village hall. Carry on north east from Lynn and you are on the coast road: the Norfolk coast cladding work runs from here out to Wells-next-the-Sea and Cromer.
Case studies
West Norfolk and beyond.
King's Lynn barn conversion
A traditional joist set forming a new first floor in a tight building, two bedrooms and an en suite above, then a complete first fix.
Stoke Ferry Village Hall
A full strip back and replacement of the roof on the village hall, finished with a brand new trussed roof and minimal disruption to the hall's schedule.
Snuggle Cottage, Wells-next-the-Sea
The exterior finish package on a circa £1.8M build: full exterior cladding to both properties plus a sea view watch tower machined up on site in Scottish larch.
Common questions
Before you call
Have you worked in King's Lynn?
Repeatedly, since 2021. A full barn conversion just outside the town for Eastern Construction Consultants, the full carpentry contract on 7 two and three bed apartments just outside South Lynn, and a kitchen installed on a two day turnaround for HB Developments on a renovation in the town.
Can you form a new first floor in a barn conversion?
Yes. On the King's Lynn barn we reinstalled a traditional set of joists to create a new first floor, giving two bedrooms and an en suite upstairs in a building that was tight to work in. We then carried out the complete first fix: structural floors, ceilings and external walls.
Do you take the full carpentry contract on an apartment scheme?
Yes. We led the full carpentry contract on 7 two and three bed apartments just outside South Lynn: the first storey joist set and the roofs were completed over the summer, then the whole scheme was pushed through first fix to completion.
How far is King's Lynn from Spalding?
About 30 miles, roughly 45 minutes straight out on the A17 through Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge and Terrington St Clement. King's Lynn has been a regular working town since 2021, so it is standard territory rather than a distant job.
Do you work further into Norfolk than King's Lynn?
Yes. We replaced the roof on Stoke Ferry Village Hall with a new trussed roof, fitted over 350 square metres of Scottish larch cladding at Cromer, and delivered the exterior finish package including a larch watch tower at Wells-next-the-Sea. The coastline is covered from King's Lynn round to Cromer.
Do you fit kitchens in King's Lynn?
Yes. A kitchen was fitted on a two day turnaround for HB Developments on a King's Lynn renovation, ready for worktop templates at the end of it. Supply and fit or fit only, with over 100 cabinet colours available, UK manufactured.
King's Lynn barn, renovation or scheme?
Forty five minutes on the A17, with a free site visit and a written estimate.