ABOUT DRUMMONDS
Welcome to the world of Drummonds
We have established an excellent reputation as a major supplier of architectural antiques - providing a wide range of reclaimed building materials and unique architectural features. Today, however, the products we manufacture play a significant and increasing role in our business.
New ranges of bathrooms, door furniture and flooring
We are proud to present Drummonds' ranges of new handmade bathrooms, door and window furniture and information about our comprehensive reclaimed flooring services on this website.
Over the years, we have handled a vast array of wonderful original antique bathroom equipment and door furniture. From amongst all these treasures, we have chosen to make a few of the finest designs using traditional methods and the same exacting standards applied when making the origianls a century or more ago.
The finest designs using traditional methods
We are alone in exclusively employing the lost wax method to produce our fabulous range of solid brass bathroom and door furniture products. The lost wax process means that for every component in a finished door knob or plumbing fitting, an original in wax is made, only to be destroyed in the process. The benefit is that extremely fine detail can be reproduced.
This hands-on approach applies to the preparation and installation of our reclaimed flooring as well. Reclaimed floor boards must be de-nailed in a laborious process that cannot be mechanised. Then, each board must be de-nailed in a laborious process that cannot be mechanised. Then each board is prepared and sanded individually to retain the original patina of age.
Products to last a lifetime
All our products are made by hand in our own workshops. In this age of mass production and synthetic materials, we are making products to last a lifetime and we think the effort is worthwhile.
I hope you find this website a useful resource in choosing your new bathroom and items of door furniture. Indeed, I hope you are encouraged to visit our showrooms to view samples of our reclaimed flooring and architectural antiques as well.
If any questions remain, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Drummond Shaw
Founder