Bespoke Stairs & CNC Panels
Lurgan

Lurgan sits directly on the M1 corridor east of Craigavon, reached from the workshop by taking the A29 to Dungannon and then joining the motorway. Nearly all of the distance is on fast road, so this is one of the easier long runs to schedule and one of the better ones for an awkward load. Lurgan, Portadown and Craigavon sit close enough together that a delivery to any one of them can usually pick up the others, which makes a multi site order or a phased fit-out considerably more practical here than it would be somewhere that needs a separate journey each time. 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. Lurgan has a manufacturing and fit-out base rooted in the old linen economy and since rebuilt around furniture, kitchens and shopfitting, working alongside building contractors and a large domestic market, so an order arriving from here is more often a repeat production part than a single bespoke piece. 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 Market Street and the town centre, Lurgan Park and the demesne you are mostly looking at the long Georgian and Victorian main street and the older linen era terraces and mill buildings around it. Further out there is extensive post-war and modern housing on the estates and toward Craigavon, plus modern industrial units. Work of this kind out there is normally a straightforward measure and machine job. The main street and the surviving linen era buildings are where a consent question is most likely in Lurgan, and a mill conversion in particular is worth checking before design rather than after. 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.