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The work.
Five divisions, one standard. Every job below carries an investment range up front and a fixed line-item quote before a board is cut.
Decks & Pergolas
From $28,000
Outdoor rooms, not platforms: decks, pavilions and pergolas engineered from the subframe up and finished for the evenings you will actually spend on them.
- Hardwood and composite decks on engineered subframes
- Pavilions, pergolas and louvred roof structures
- Balustrades, screens, seating and planters
- Step and rafter lighting, oiling programs
Renovations & Extensions
From $45,000
Structural carpentry for houses that have to stay lived-in while we work: walls opened, floors levelled, rooms added, dust contained.
- Wall removals with certified structural steel
- Framing, cladding and external carpentry
- Floor levelling and subfloor repairs
- Room-by-room programs for occupied homes
Staircases & Built-ins
From $12,000
The piece of carpentry your house shows off every day. Stairs, wall panelling, libraries and built-in storage, drawn first and built from our own bench.
- Open-riser and closed staircases in hardwood
- Handrails and balustrades, shaped in the workshop
- Wall panelling, libraries and window seats
- Wardrobes and storage built to the ceiling line
Doors & Windows
From $4,800
Hanging, easing and replacing the joinery a house opens and closes a hundred times a day, including the heritage sashes most trades refuse to touch.
- Entry, internal and bi-fold door systems
- Sash window repair and reweighting
- Draught sealing and hardware upgrades
- Architraves, skirtings and trim to match existing
Commercial Fit-outs
From $60,000
Cafes, shops and studios delivered to an opening date, with counters and joinery from our own bench and a program your landlord can hold us to.
- Full fit-outs from stripped shell to opening day
- Counters, banquettes and shopfront joinery
- Partitions, linings and acoustic treatments
- Trade coordination under one program
Recent fit-out clients
- Halloway Coffee · hospitality
- Merrit & Bond · legal offices
- Fairgate Cycles · retail
- Northbeam Studio · creative workspace
Asked at every consult.
Do you give free quotes?
We give fixed line-item quotes after a design consultation, and the consult itself costs nothing. What we will not do is guess a number over the phone and correct it mid-build; that is how this trade earned its reputation.
Can you build from our architect's drawings?
Happily. We price straight off documented drawings and flag anything that will not survive contact with the site before it costs you a variation.
Who actually turns up?
A Copeland runs every job: Daniel from the workshop side, Marcus on site. The crew are our own eight carpenters, on the books, not hired by the day.
Do you take on small repairs?
Rarely. Twelve projects a year means we say no to work that deserves a handyman rather than a crew. Doors and windows are the exception; that joinery is worth doing properly.