Home renovation & repair · Rochester area
Carpentry, Doors & Trim in Rochester, NY
Interior doors, trim, built-ins, paneling and defined framing work for Rochester-area homes.
Site visitsEstimates are free. There is no travel fee within 10 miles of our Rochester base. Beyond 10 miles, a travel fee based on travel costs and time is confirmed before scheduling. Site-visit policy
Make the details fit your home
Start with a door that needs attention, a finish update or a larger carpentry plan.
Repair
Focus on an interior door, trim or hardware problem.
- Interior door and hardware adjustments
- Defined casing or trim repairs
Update
Refresh the elements that frame the room and its openings.
- Interior doors, baseboards and moldings
- Shiplap, wainscoting or decorative paneling
Renovate
Bring fitted details and renovation finish work into one defined plan.
- Built-ins and custom finish details
- Doors and trim coordinated with other room work
These are starting points, not fixed packages. Your written estimate confirms the work.
Typical work to discuss
The written estimate confirms what is included for your home.
Typical scope
- Trim, baseboards, casings and crown molding
- Doors, casings and hardware
- Accent walls, wainscoting and decorative paneling
- Built-ins and custom finish details
- Non-load-bearing framing and partitions
- Establishing what is structural before anything is cut, and stopping where that question needs an engineer.
- Reading how far the building is out of level, plumb and square, since carpentry has to absorb that rather than repeat it.
- Material selected and conditioned for the room before it is cut, because wood moves after it is installed.
- Deciding what is built in place and what is built off site, on access and tolerance rather than habit.
- Fixing into structure and to the tolerance the finish will need, since a frame out of true becomes every later trade’s problem.
- The finish sequence agreed in advance, because some finishes are far easier before assembly than after.
If existing conditions require it
Optional or separate work
- Framing alterations affecting a load path
From our work
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What to know before work begins
Existing construction, access and the layers behind the finish determine the sequence and scope.
Plumbing, electrical, gas and HVACWhen a project includes work that requires a licensed trade, the appropriate specialist is engaged for that part of the scope.
Other limits
- Structural alteration is not undertaken on the strength of a site visit. Anything load-bearing needs a design professional before it is priced.
- Removing or altering a load-bearing wall, header or beam requires a design professional and the appropriate approval. We will not price it from a site visit.
- Roof structure, foundations and exterior envelope framing are outside this scope.
- Conditions behind existing finishes cannot be priced before they are visible. What is found is written up as a change with its own price, not absorbed silently or invoiced afterwards.
- Structural alteration requiring design or permit goes to the discipline responsible for it. It is not carried out to keep a schedule.
- Carpentry does not straighten a building. Where a deviation is large enough to show in the finished work, it is pointed out beforehand so the approach can be agreed rather than explained afterwards.
Do you provide materials?
Who supplies each material is agreed for the project and recorded in the written estimate. We confirm purchasing responsibilities before work begins.
Do I need photos to request an estimate?
No. Photos are optional, but they can help us understand the existing condition.
Request an estimate
Send the project ZIP code and a short description of the work. Photos are optional.