How a fit out firm adds fitted joinery without running a workshop

Who does what

You keep the design, the client and the programme. We take the joinery from your drawings to an installed piece. Ajusteur measures, draws, prices and coordinates. Our workshop cuts, bands and labels the parts from our cut list, and our installers fit them from the same drawings. Ajusteur holds the contract, the warranty and the invoices, so your client deals with one company.

That is the point of the arrangement. You get a joinery package with one accountable party, and you do not carry a workshop, a panel saw or a hardware stock to offer it.

What you send

A brief is enough to start: the room, what the piece holds, the finish direction and the budget band. Drawings help more. Send elevations and plans as PDF, photos of the room from the doorway, and your finish references as a RAL number, a veneer species or a stone variety. The form takes up to five files of 5 MB each, in PDF, Word, Excel or image formats. If you draw in CAD, export to PDF for now and we ask for anything else by email.

Mark anything you have not measured yourself. We write those numbers with a check mark next to them and confirm them on site before anything is cut.

The visit and the drawings

The site visit is free. We measure the recess or the wall at three heights, the ceiling at both ends and the middle, the depth, and both diagonals, and we build to the smallest of each. Then every box is drawn with a letter, every part with a number, so a side of box A is A-1L, its bottom A-2B, its back A-3. The same number means the same part in every box. Fitters learn the code once.

You see the design in 3D and in plan before anything is decided, and the site check sheet tells the crew what to do when the room differs from the drawing: inside the width band, build as drawn; outside it, call the office. How the drawing set is built is in how we draw a box.

The quote and the terms

Every line carries an item, a quantity, a unit and a unit price in AED, with VAT at 5 percent shown separately or marked as not added. Materials, hours and hardware sit on their own lines, so when your client swaps a lacquer for a veneer only the lines it touches move. A quote is valid 14 days and is accepted online by typing a name. Line by line, it is explained in reading an Ajusteur quote.

Payment is 50 percent to start, 25 percent on delivery to site with the delivery recorded for every piece, and 25 percent at the end of installation. Changes after acceptance go on a change order, paid on acceptance before the work. Cancel before anything is ordered and the deposit comes back in full, less any survey or design fee agreed in writing.

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Installation, snags and warranty

The parts arrive labelled with the codes on the drawings. The plinth is levelled first, then the boxes go on left to right, then the fillers are scribed to the walls, then the doors are hung and adjusted to their gaps. We walk round with you and your client at the end. Anything not right goes on the snag list, and snags raised at handover are fixed within 14 days.

Workmanship is covered for 12 months from handover. Hardware carries its maker's warranty, often five years and more for hinges and runners. Stone carries the fabricator's warranty. A warranty request gets an answer within two working days.

What stays yours

The client relationship, the design intent and the programme. Whether your firm or your client signs the quote is agreed at the start, and either way you stay the person they call. We do not sell to your client around you, and the drawings carry your design as drawn.

Ready to try it on one project? Tell us about it on the page for designers and firms, and pick a piece with a deadline you can hold us to.