Bespoke Stairs & CNC Panels
Kilrea

Kilrea sits on the west bank of the Bann north of Maghera and is reached on the roads up the valley. It is comfortably inside the everyday delivery radius, and its position means a Kilrea drop can be combined with a Garvagh, Coleraine or Portglenone run rather than needing its own journey. The one thing worth flagging is that Kilrea is the point where the workshop area shades into Causeway Coast and Glens territory, so a job here sits with a different council to a job in Maghera a few miles south, which occasionally surprises people on a project that crosses the boundary. On a stair that matters more than on anything else made here, because a stair is unforgiving of a late change and there is rarely slack in the programme by the time parts are due.

The work itself follows the town. Kilrea has a rural and small town trade base of joiners, agricultural engineering firms and building contractors, with holiday and second home renovation work adding to it as you go north, so an order arriving from here is more often a one-off or a short run than a rolling production schedule. Stair and panel work tends to arrive through fit-out contractors and joiners rather than direct, so the local contractor base is what really determines the flow of this work.

Building stock is the other thing worth raising early. Around the Diamond, Maghera Street you are mostly looking at the planned Diamond and the older street frontages radiating from it. Further out there is modern housing built out from the old centre and agricultural and light industrial buildings in the surrounding country. Work of this kind out there is normally a straightforward measure and machine job. The Diamond and the streets around it form a planned core with real age to it, so a frontage alteration there is a conversation with Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council rather than an assumption. For a stair or a panelled interior this is the single most important thing to settle first, because a consent condition can change the design itself and not just the timetable.

None of this changes the price of a cut. MDF, birch plywood, poplar plywood, Valchromat, acrylic, HDPE, PVC and decorative furniture board all come through the same regional suppliers whichever town the parts are going to, so lead time is driven by board availability and machine time rather than by which road the delivery takes. Structural stair components and decorative panels have genuinely different material requirements, so the specification should separate them rather than treat the whole job as one order.