Hello all, I’m sure most of you live in something smaller than your used to like me.
I often think of quality of life improvements that can be built by me using metal or wood if I had the tools available to me, but I do not. These additions if like to create would leave no permanent changes to the room itself.
Are there companies that specialize in this type of work? Where I’d send them plans and they would make and ship it to my address? Also, what program would be the most seamless?
Thank you in advance for your thoughts and ideas
ETA: I found a workshop customers can use in the town I work! I’ll also keep the local construction/ handyman option in the back of my mind got the future! Thanks again 👍
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We use a local construction company to make things for us when a project we want to do exceeds our DIY motivation or skills.
Some major DIY stores have a small workshop that you can use, including their power tools.
Not metal, but for wood, most home centres will cut purchased wood to spec. and ship it to you. You should be able to assemble it at home without much issue – you can rent a drill/driver as well, but it’s worth owning one.
To directly answer your question: no, there are no companies like that.
There are companies that build “furniture”-type stuff from mixed material to spec, but generally they have costs called “startup costs” that would be way out of the line of the costs you’d be expecting – often times even with those big upfront costs they often still have order minimums. Maybe you had something else in mind in your question, but unfortunately you didn’t really include enough info in what you were really asking here …
I think in general if its something more than the cutting services offered by the DIY/home center places offer, you’re better off hiring a handyman to build whatever to your specs. We have a guy we use for anything we don’t have time to do because otherwise we just do whatever DIY stuff ourselves. (My wife and I are both farm kids and even if farm life is different in Texas vs Japan, we still still both firmly learned how to “get shit done”.)