Joinery across the Wirral

Bidston, Noctorum, Beechwood, Ford, Woodchurch and Arrowe Park sit in the middle of the Wirral and are mostly postwar and estate-built, with the consistency that brings: regular openings, blockwork that takes a fixing and ground floors that are usually solid. Kitchens, fitted wardrobes, doors and flooring make up nearly all of the work, and because the house types repeat, pricing is quick and accurate.

Bidston Hill and the roads around it are the exception, older and more varied, where it is worth us looking before quoting.

Thingwall, Irby, Pensby, Thurstaston, Caldy, Grange, Newton, Frankby and Greasby run down the west of the peninsula and are largely twentieth-century detached and semi-detached on good plots, with some older cores. Access is generally excellent, which keeps the time on site down.

Irby and Thingwall in particular have a lot of nineteen-sixties and seventies housing with wide openings and big picture windows, and those rooms suit long runs of fitted storage better than most.

Thornton Hough, Raby, Brimstage, Clatterbridge, Poulton, Burton, Ledsham, Capenhurst, Childer Thornton, Little Sutton and Great Sutton take the peninsula down to the Cheshire boundary. Thornton Hough and Raby are genuinely rural estate villages with old property and narrow lanes, and both the joinery and the access need planning rather than assuming.

The Suttons and Childer Thornton are later and more ordinary, closer in character to Ellesmere Port than to the Wirral villages, and the work there is the everyday domestic list.

Wallasey Docks, Seacombe, Egremont and the roads behind the river are dense terraced housing with the usual history of conversion and reconversion. Work there is mostly repair, doors, stairs and the list of small things that build up in a house that has been worked on cheaply more than once.

It is close to us and easy to get to, which makes a half day with a list genuinely worthwhile rather than something to save up for.