Working with us

What a design firm sends us, and what comes back

The brief and drawings that let us price first time, the measurements we take on site, and the drawing set, part codes and quote your client gets back.

By the Ajusteur team9 November 20265 minute read

The brief that gets a price first time

Six things, and most are already in your project file.

The room

Width at three heights, the ceiling at both ends and the middle, the depth of the recess, and anything in the way: sockets, pipes, an AC bulkhead, a skirting that stays

Photos

From the doorway and from each side, with the old piece still in if there is one

What it holds

Long hanging, folded clothes, books, a TV and its size, a printer. The inside decides the bays

Finish direction

A RAL number for lacquer, a species and cut for veneer, a stone variety for a panel. Samples come to the visit

Budget band and timing

So we draw to the budget rather than present a number nobody expected

Your drawings

Elevations and plans as PDF, with the sizes you measured marked apart from the ones you assumed

What we do with your numbers

Anything inferred rather than measured is written with a check mark after it and listed in an assumptions box on the drawings. At the free site visit we measure the recess or the wall at three heights, the ceiling at both ends and the middle, the depth at floor, middle and top, and both diagonals. We build to the smallest of each. Fillers at the walls take 40 to 100 mm a side, so a wardrobe drawn for one width still fits a band of widths without redrawing.

If the room is outside that band, the design is rerun with a new module or one more or one fewer bay, and you see the new elevation before anything else changes.

The drawing set

The set a workshop builds from and an installer fits from. You see it before you confirm.

Front elevation

The whole piece from the room, drawn closed and drawn open, with the clear width and height on every opening

Plan and sections

Cut at counter height with door swings, walls hatched, and a line that checks every board, gap and filler adds up to the wall

Site check sheet

A measuring diagram and a table of what to do if the room differs: inside the band, build as drawn; outside, call the office

One sheet per box

The box without its door, every part numbered, heights from the floor, hinge plate positions, and the build steps in pictures

Cut list and cutting plans

Every part with its code, size and board, and how each board is ripped and crosscut

Order sheet for bought in doors

Glass or sliding doors from a door maker, with the gaps and what the supplier must confirm before drilling

The codes on everything

Boxes take a letter in the order they are fitted, A, B, C from the left. Parts take a number that means the same in every box: 1 is a side, with L or R for the hand, 2 is a top or bottom, 3 a back, 4 a shelf. The plinth is P, the top boxes T, fillers F, glass doors G. A part arrives on site with its code written on a hidden edge, and the same code sits on its box sheet, the cut list and the cutting plan in the same colour. More in how we draw a box.

The quote

Every line priced: boxes, top boxes, doors, the inside by name, lighting, delivery and installation, and the old piece taken out if that was asked. Materials, hours and hardware on separate lines, VAT at 5 percent shown separately, 14 days of validity, and the payment schedule of 50, 25 and 25 percent. Reading an Ajusteur quote walks through it.

After acceptance

The first payment books the workshop and orders the boards. The workshop cuts from our cutting plans, bands every visible edge and labels each part with its code. Delivery to site is recorded piece by piece, which is what the second payment ties to. The installer levels the plinth, sets the boxes, scribes the fillers, hangs the doors and adjusts the gaps, then walks round with you and your client. Snags go on the list and are fixed within 14 days. The third payment follows installation.

Your client's project page shows the quote, the design revision it was priced from, the payments and the delivery updates with any files we attach. Start your first project on the page for designers and firms.

Quick questions

What should we send to get a joinery price?

Room sizes at three heights, photos, what the piece holds, your finish references, the budget band and your elevations as PDF. We measure on site before anything is cut.

Do we get drawings back?

Yes. A front elevation closed and open, plan and sections, a site check sheet, one sheet per box and the cut list, with every part coded. You see them before you confirm.

Can we send CAD files?

Export them to PDF for now. The form takes PDF, Word, Excel and images, up to five files of 5 MB each.

Who does our client deal with during installation?

You. Ajusteur coordinates the workshop and the installer and holds the warranty, and you stay the person your client calls.