Recent work

Why there is nothing here yet

This service is new. We have not matched enough jobs to fill a gallery, and the alternative — buying a set of beautiful panelling photographs and captioning them "recent project, Shrewsbury" — is the single most common lie on trade websites.

Panelling makes it worse than most. It is a photogenic trade, the internet is full of gorgeous images, and almost none of them belong to the businesses using them. It is also trivially easy to catch: reverse image search takes about four seconds. If we would fake this, you would reasonably wonder what else we would fake.

What will go here

As genuine matched jobs complete, each one gets a page carrying all of the following. If a field is missing, it will be missing rather than invented:

The finished wall, straight on

In daylight, showing the whole thing rather than a flattering crop.

A raking-light close-up

Where a panelling finish is either crisp or it is not — mitres, caulk lines, paint.

The before shot

Where one exists. We will not stage one afterwards.

Style and room

What was fitted, and where.

Town and month

So you can see how recent and how local it is.

What the wall was like

Flat, bowed, dot-and-dab, lath and plaster — the thing that shaped the job.

What had to be worked around

Sockets, a radiator, an off-centre chimney breast.

Material and finish

Which board, and what paint system.

Who did the work

Attributed. They fitted it, not us.

What we will not do

• Use stock photography and present it as completed work.
• Use a panel manufacturer's product shots without labelling them clearly as such.
• Publish a customer's photographs without asking them first.
• Show a house number, a vehicle registration or anything else that identifies an address.
• Crop a photo to hide the part that did not go well.
• Add review star markup for reviews this page does not genuinely display.

If we have just matched work for you

We will ask before publishing anything, and "no" is a perfectly fine answer that changes nothing about the job. If you are happy for it to appear here, photographs taken in daylight are ideal — including one with the light raking across the wall, which is the shot that actually shows the quality of the finish.

In the meantime

Judge us on what you can check right now: whether the process is written out honestly, whether the form asks sensible questions, and whether the style pages tell you something useful rather than repeating a keyword.