Bespoke Stairs & CNC Panels
Limavady

Limavady is reached by taking the A6 west through Dungiven and turning north, or by running up the A29 to Coleraine and cutting across. The A6 route is generally the quicker of the two and shares the first half of the Derry run, which means a Limavady delivery is often easy to combine with a job going further west. It is a single carriageway approach at the Limavady end either way. Nothing about that is difficult, but an unusually long component is worth flagging when the job is quoted so the load can be planned rather than reconsidered on the morning. 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. Limavady has a rural and small town trade base of joiners and building contractors, with coastal and holiday property work and some light manufacturing around the industrial estate, 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 Main Street and Catherine Street, the Roe valley you are mostly looking at the Georgian and Victorian frontages along the broad Main Street and Catherine Street. Further out there is modern housing around the town and through the Roe valley, plus industrial units at Aghanloo. Work of this kind out there is normally a straightforward measure and machine job. Limavady has a notably intact Georgian main street, so a frontage or change of use question there is more likely to involve the council than the equivalent job in a newer part of the town. 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.