Carpentry projects
Carpentry projects across Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and further afield, with the client, the location and the actual specification attached to each one. Every photograph was taken on an AJB site.
Most carpentry websites show you a gallery. This one shows you jobs, because a photograph of a finished roof tells you almost nothing on its own. What tells you something is the client who paid for it, the town it is in, the specification it was built to and what had to happen either side of it.
The projects below cover roughly five years of work, from a two-man team fitting out renovations around Spalding to a fourteen-strong carpentry contractor delivering full packages for main contractors, councils, the NHS and national brands. They are grouped by sector because that is how people tend to search: a main contractor pricing a public building wants to see the town hall, a homeowner planning an extension wants to see a kitchen and a staircase, and a developer wants to see plots.
A few things run through all of them. AJB works from drawings and specifications rather than sketches on the back of a delivery note, and where a client has no drawings, as happened with the cafe in the grounds of Lympne Castle, the team builds from the client's description and takes responsibility for the result. Roofing carpentry runs through more of this work than any other trade, and it is the part of the business AJB is best known for. And on the larger jobs the carpentry package is genuinely a package: joists and roof structure, first fix, second fix, doors, staircases, kitchens, cladding, with AJB's own crane for the lifts.
Where a main contractor is named, they named AJB publicly first. Probus Construction, SSL Home Creations, HB Developments, Eastern Construction Consultants, J Turner Brickwork, Apex Demolition and Stronghold Homes have all worked with AJB, and several have come back repeatedly, which is the reference that matters more than any review score.
Sector one
Public buildings, healthcare, hospitality and retail. The common thread is that somebody else owns the programme, the building usually has to keep working around you, and the paperwork is checked before you get through the gate.
This is where CHAS accreditation and SMSTS certification stop being a line on a website and start being the reason a contractor can bid at all. A town hall renovation, a live NHS site and a council-overseen heritage venue are not places you turn up to with a van and good intentions.
Twelve roof adaptations across a 16-month renovation: a hand cut link way roof with two large Velux openings, the steel and timber build-up carrying a new five-metre clock, a 5 degree pitched lean-to and new flat roofs, plus a new theatre and cafe.
A 20 metre traditionally cut roof on a steel framed structure creating a new events and wedding venue, then a new slate covering, a workshop outbuilding, 111 square metres of rough sawn 6x1 cladding and the internal second fix and bar.
Restoration and renovation inside a 13th century castle undergoing a £20M revamp, filmed throughout by a camera crew. A bespoke oak cafe built from the client's imagination with no drawings, then a 12 metre hand cut roof, felt, batten and reclaimed tile.
450 x 450 shutter boxes installed to millimetre precision alongside the site engineers, ahead of 58 concrete pours, so pre-fabricated pods could be landed for a four-storey staff accommodation block. Two phases, following Apex Demolition on the groundworks.
A full strip back and replacement of the roof on a Norfolk village hall, finished as a new trussed roof, worked around a busy community timetable so the hall stayed usable.
A Hemsworth retail park Costa clad in British red cedar to the brand's design, then a disused Northampton nightclub converted into a KFC and Taco Bell: GRP flat roofs, warm roofs, hoarding, false pillars and a new stud and ply frontage.
An old bungalow turned into a youth behaviour centre, with the carpentry, brickwork and plumbing project managed as one turnkey package: full internal strip out, 5m x 5m rear extension, 68 sqm of GRP flat roof stripped and reinstalled, new openings throughout. Keys handed back for early 2026.
Sector two
Plots, phases and conversions. Volume work where the value is in repeatability: the same operation done well across a site, on programme, without the following trades waiting.
Fourteen employed carpenters is what makes this possible. Several plots or elevations can run at once instead of in sequence, which is normally the point at which a housing programme starts to slip. It is also where price work suits both sides, because the work can be measured properly in advance.
A disused town centre building turned into nine apartments. The full carpentry package: new sash windows and shop frontage, 72 internal fire doors and frames, two double-winder staircases, new joists and flooring, stud partitions, nine kitchens and a pharmacy fit-out.
Years of work in one Lincolnshire village: hand cut extension roofs on a 4.2 metre glulam ridge with ceiling ties, bifold door sets, cladding, staircases, fitted wardrobes and under-stair joinery across renovations and new units.
One of AJB's largest residential contracts, delivering the full internal carpentry package plot by plot alongside garage roof installations, with completed homes standing next to plots still in build.
Two large roofs completed back to back on a high end development on the outskirts of Leicestershire, followed by cladding on a bespoke home, documented from the air as the site progressed.
The leading carpentry role on a Lincolnshire housing development: nine bungalow roofs in phases, seven plots roofed in a single push, five hand cut hip end porches with clad undersides, then first fix, oak doors, staircases and kitchens.
An empty North London shell turned into four luxury apartments, joists and floors completed by a team of three in five days, then steels infilled with hand cut joists and hangers, 18mm marine ply, and six storeys up a flat roof, mansard roof with three built-in dormers and a parapet wall.
Sector three
Private clients, conversions and finish carpentry, where the standard is judged from two feet away by somebody who lives there.
These are the jobs where AJB's in-house trades matter most. A homeowner running an extension does not want to co-ordinate a bricklayer, a plumber, an electrician, a plasterer and a decorator around a carpenter. On turnkey projects AJB project manages the lot, produces 3D renders before work starts, and leaves the client with one number to call.
A traditional joist set installed to create a new first floor inside a tight barn structure, giving two bedrooms and an en-suite upstairs, followed by structural floors, ceilings, external walls and a complete first fix.
A traditional joist set in C24 8x2 timbers at 400mm centres with 22mm Caberdex flooring, and later an open plan kitchen remodel with a Belfast sink, quartz tops and a family sized island.
Turnkey renovations on AJB's home patch, project managed start to finish with in-house trades: a three-bed semi stripped back to a brick shell, site clearance and grading, brickwork and extension work, and bespoke doors scribed into a sloped roof.
Sector four
Exposed sites on the Norfolk coast, where the material choice and the detailing have to survive salt air and driven rain rather than just look good in a photograph.
Cladding is a growing part of the business and it travels: timber, cedar, larch, composite, shiplap and uPVC, on new build, renovation and commercial work. The coastal jobs are the ones that prove it, because a coastal elevation punishes a poor detail within a couple of winters.
The exterior finish package on a circa £1.8M build: full exterior cladding to both properties and a bespoke bird watching tower with sea views, machined on site from loose sawn Scottish larch, insulated with PIR, battened out and lined in oak faced cladding.
Over 350 square metres of Scottish larch cladding fitted on the Norfolk coastline at Cromer, chosen to weather well in an exposed position and detailed for clean lines across a large elevation.
Timber, cedar, larch, composite, shiplap and uPVC cladding for new build, renovation and commercial projects across Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, supplied and fitted or fitted only.
Common questions
Yes. Every photograph on this website was taken on an AJB Group site. There is no stock imagery anywhere on it, which is deliberate, because a carpentry contractor showing somebody else's roof is telling you something about how it works.
Yes, and it is most of what AJB does. On the Grantham conversion the package ran from new joists and stud partitions through 72 fire doors, two double-winder staircases, timber window frontage, nine kitchens and a pharmacy fit-out. Labour-only and supply-and-fit options are both available.
Daily coverage is those three counties, but contract work has taken the team to Kent, London, Northampton, Nottingham, Leeds, Wales, Hampshire and Scunthorpe. If a project is worth travelling for, ask.
Yes, roughly half the workload. Extensions, renovations, kitchens, staircases and garden carpentry, carried out by the same employed carpenters who work on the commercial contracts.
Ask and we will arrange it where the client is happy to. Several main contractors listed on this site have used AJB repeatedly across multiple projects, which is usually the reference that counts.
Send the drawings and we will price the carpentry package, or book a free site visit.
