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How it works

Wrap, or renovate?

These are not two versions of the same job. One changes how a surface looks; the other changes what is actually there. Here is how to tell which one you genuinely need, including the times it is not us.

  Resurfacing Replacing
What happens to your existing carpentry Stays. Carcasses, hinges, tracks and internal shelving are untouched. Demolished and disposed of, including parts that were structurally fine.
Time on site A single door is usually a day. A full kitchen is typically two to three. Weeks, including demolition, disposal, fabrication lead time and installation.
Do you move out No. Work is contained to the surfaces being wrapped. Often yes for a kitchen, and at minimum the room is unusable.
Dust and debris No hacking. Sanding dust is contained and cleaned as we go. Significant. Hacking, disposal, and dust through the whole flat.
Waste Offcuts of film. The carpentry stays in the home. The entire old installation goes to the skip.
Layout changes None possible. The surface changes, nothing moves. Anything is possible, and that is the reason to do it.
Fixing damaged board Minor chips are filled. Swollen or delaminating board must be replaced first. Replaced by definition.
Reversibility The original surface is underneath, prepared and primed. Permanent.

Three times we will tell you to renovate instead

We install film. We would still rather lose the job than take one that was never going to work.

The carcasses have gone

Water damage under a sink, swollen particle board, a wardrobe base gone soft. Film follows whatever is underneath it, faithfully and unforgivingly. If the box is failing, wrapping the door is money spent on a clock you cannot see. Replace it, and do it once.

You want a different layout

If the fridge really belongs where the tall unit is, or you have always wanted an island and there is none, no finish in the world will fix that. What you want is a renovation, and you should have one.

The surface is not a substrate

Painted plaster, textured walls, wallpaper, fabric, rattan, open weaves. Film needs something flat, solid and non-porous to hold on to. On anything else it will lift, and in months, not years, which is nobody’s idea of value.

What about painting instead?

On a door or a cabinet front, paint means masking, fumes, several coats, drying time you cannot use the room in, and a finish that shows brush marks across a flat panel. It also cannot give you a wood grain or a stone pattern. Film arrives finished and is fitted in hours.

Where paint wins is a plastered wall, a ceiling, or anything with carving and deep moulding. Those are not film surfaces, and we will say so.

What about laminate or veneer?

Both are excellent and both are thicker, which means they generally need the carpentry opened up, re-edged and re-fitted, which is closer to a rebuild in disruption. Film is the option when the point is to leave the carpentry where it stands.

Not sure which one you need?

Send a photo of the surface. If resurfacing is the wrong answer we will tell you, and tell you why.

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