Spring 2027 is filling — whole-house packages book six to nine weeks out; single rooms and door packs usually land inside three. The card below does not change while you wait.
Services
What the card buys
01
The same three carpenters, door to walkthrough
The people who count your openings are the people who cut them. No sub crews, no handoffs, and one site lead whose name you will know by the second morning.
02
A shop, not just a truck
Built-ins, panel runs and stair parts are milled, coped and pre-finished flat at the Brick Forge bench — so your site days are short, quiet assembly days instead of week-long construction.
03
Hardware schedules, in writing
Every hinge, knob, lever and backset listed per door before an order is placed. No “they sent the wrong finish” mornings — the schedule is the order, and you approve it first.
04
The ten-year cope
Every inside corner coped, never mitered, and guaranteed for ten years. Wood moves; a cope moves with it. If one of our joints opens, we come back with the coping saw, not an excuse.
The Forge portfolio
Straight work, shot straight
Client rooms on walkthrough day, within forty minutes of Brick Forge. No staging, no grading — the corners are the claim.
Counted, not claimed
Thirteen years on one doorway
How it goes
Card to key-in-hand
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 0
The measure
Openings counted, walls read, budget spoken out loud at the tailgate. Free, and the count sheet leaves with you.
Day 2
The quote off the card
Piece prices and foot prices applied to your rooms, every line visible, hardware schedule priced as its own line. Fixed thirty days.
Weeks 1–3
The Forge bench
Milled, coped, pre-finished flat in three coats, crated in install order. Visit any morning and watch your own wood move through.
Last day
Level, lamp, key
You hold the level and the lamp; we fix whatever either finds. Then the ten-year cope guarantee signs, and the house is yours again.
The card said $255 a door hung and latched, and eleven doors later the invoice said eleven times $255. I framed nothing, but I did photograph it.
They wrote a hardware schedule for nineteen openings and read it back to us before ordering. Our painter says the fill and caulk lines are the thinnest he has worked over in a decade.
A mitered corner in our last house opened every February like it was scheduled. Three winters of coped corners in this one and I have stopped checking. That is the review.
The card, explained
Asked at the counter
Piece prices or day rate — which am I paying?
Regular work runs on piece prices: doors each, openings each, crown by the foot. Day rate is for the odd stuff — a wall that needs three visits to understand, a repair with unknown depth. The quote names which is which, and no job is ever secretly both.
Why cope instead of miter, in one breath?
A mitered inside corner is two end grains arguing with the weather; a coped one is a profile following its neighbour, sealed and quiet. It costs us eleven minutes a corner and it is why the guarantee can run ten years without a reserve fund behind it.
What if I want to supply my own hardware?
Bring it to the measure and it goes on the schedule like anything else — finish, backset, spindle, per door. We will tell you honestly if something on your list fights the doors you have; better at the counter than on the morning of.
How do you handle old, un-square rooms?
Scribing — we trace the wall, the floor, the ceiling, and cut to the trace. The trim goes on straight; the house keeps its character. Forcing a straight board into an un-straight room is how gaps and cracked caulk happen.
Do you travel?
Brick Forge plus forty minutes, quoted with a visible mileage line beyond that. The card prices the work; the truck prices the distance — never the other way round.
Bring the room. We will bring the card.
One measure, one line-item quote, and a hardware schedule with your name on it — take all three to anybody you like.
Penny & Plane Woodworking · card@pennyplane.example · Lic. FC-55830 · Insured · The forge gate, Brick Forge