Carpentry Department

The Foundation's cabinet-making and joinery department is housed in a large modern workshop, fully equipped with the machinery required for producing oak and pine furniture, hardwood and softwood joinery.

No prior experience is necessary as full training is given.    In the first week every new trainee will make a variety of items progressing to a chest of drawers and so on.

Once a trainee is proficient in basic furniture fabrication, he may enter the joinery section of the department.  Joinery is a separate discipline involving the production of doors, window frames and gates etc., for both interior and exterior applications, using both softwoods and hardwoods.  Much heavier timbers are used in joinery than in furniture production.

All furniture and joinery is produced for sale either through Camelia Botnar Homes & Gardens or direct to the end customer.  This helps to instil a serious commercial attitude towards their work - shoddy workmanship simply will not sell.

After around two years of working in this department, trainees will be competent carpenters, qualified to work as machinists, fabricators, joiners or cabinet makers.