Crosscut Carpentry & Joinery

Richard restored a semi-glazed Victorian door for us, which he tidied up pretty well. We were going to varnish the door ourselves, but Richard insisted he needed to do it or the oil from the putty used to install the glass would bleed into the wood (although this hasn't happened on any of our other similar doors). I told him we wanted to keep the original pale oak colour of the wood and sent photos of our other doors and the varnish we'd used on them. When he delivered the door it was covered in a sheeny varnish that had made the wood a deep orange colour. We were told we'd just get used to it". Safe to say we haven't