We have all the traditional skills under one roof. E & A Wates provide a full restoration service for every needy piece of furniture from Jacobean through to 20th century designs. This may involve full structural work to loose joints and drawer runners, replacing or treating woodwormed sections, reveneeering surfaces, cutting in leather tooled tops to desks or less invasive conservation work.

With three options of French polishing work available we can strip and repolish a badly damaged piece, clean and revive or simply touch in and wax lesser damage.

We also provide the increasingly rare skills of caning, rushing, carving and gilding and are happy to spend time designing solutions for everything from making new leaves for a table to creating replica chairs or proposing new marquetry to overcome a badly burnt surface. Many are the times when we’ve restored a dinner party victim!