Timber Doors & Windows

Manufactured in Norfolk

Who We Are

Robert Mitchell Joinery is a Norfolk manufacturer of traditionally made timber doors and windows in hardwood and softwood.  For all types of properties from a beautiful Norfolk country cottage to a fine period listed house.  Established in 1984.

What We Do

Door frames and doors can be supplied as finished sets, with the door hung in the frame with either traditional mortise sash locks fitted or a multipoint locking system. Or supplied loose for on-site fitting.

Sash Windows

Traditional Boxed Sash windows, operated with traditional weights and pulleys for single glazed windows, often found in Victorian and Georgian houses. These use a lead or steel counterbalance weight housed in the boxed frame of the window to offset the weight of the glazed sash, a sash cord joins the sash and weight together, this sash cord runs over a pulley at the top of the frame.

Sash windows can also be operated on mechanical spiral balances. These mechanisms do not greatly alter the appearance of the window at all but they do give you the option of easily being able to counterbalance the weight of double glazed sealed units.

Casement Windows

Traditional flush casement windows are usually found in conservation areas or listed buildings in Norfolk. They are fitted with solid brass butt hinges and Aquamac weather seals. When closed the casements sit flush with the outside face of the window frame, hence the name flush casement.

Stormproof timber windows are found in houses generally from the 1950’s onwards. The casements stand forward of the window frame.

Replacement timber casements can be made to replace existing ones that may have seen better days, suffering from decay, they can sometimes be made with a deep enough glazing rebate to accept double glazed sealed units if required.

Finishing of Timber Doors & Windows

An option to have Painting or staining  done in the workshop is available, either primed and undercoated or finish coated as well, all surfaces are painted ensuring complete coverage of the timber frames before installation. It is important to ensure timber windows are primed on all surfaces before fitting including the glazing rebates to ensure a long and trouble-free life. Paint is applied by brush with sanding in-between coats.

Glazing is possible in the workshop for many jobs, thus ensuring that the double glazed units are correctly fitted.