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Yard Manager
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Forty years on Arundel Street
Caldmore Timber is not a shed on a ring road. It is a working yard in Walsall, run by people who will tell you honestly whether we can do the job.
How it started
One yard, one postcode, since 1985
Caldmore Timber opened in Walsall in 1985 and has traded from the same yard ever since. Four decades on, the business still does what it set out to do: keep good timber in stock, cut it to what people actually need, and charge a price you can check before you set off.
That has meant serving two very different customers side by side. The joiner who rings at half eight with a cut list. The homeowner who has never bought a length of timber before and is not sure what to ask for. Both get the same answer from the same counter.
Along the way we added a workshop and a small sawing mill, so mouldings that other merchants have to order in are machined here on site.
The timeline
Four decades, one address
1985
The yard opens in Walsall
Caldmore Timber begins trading from Arundel Street, supplying soft and hardwood timber to trade and public across the Black Country.
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The workshop and sawing mill
A machining shop and small sawing mill are added on site, allowing skirting, architrave and tongue and groove to be run to customers' own specifications rather than ordered in.
Ask the owner: which year?
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Amalgamation with KJ Interiors
The business joins with sister company KJ Interiors, Ceilings & Partitions, adding commercial interior contracting to the timber yard — suspended ceilings, office partitions and refurbishment work nationwide.
Ask the owner: which year?
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Airport contract work
Interior contracts extend to major UK airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham and Manchester, while the Walsall yard carries on serving local trade and public.
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Today
Still the same counter
Over a hundred products priced openly, orders taken by phone for collection or delivery, and trade accounts for the contractors who have been coming back for years.
What hasn't changed
Why people keep coming back
The things a local yard can do that a national chain cannot be bothered to.
You get a person
Ring the number and someone in the workshop answers. No call centre, no ticket number, no being passed around a branch network.
We say if we can't
Bring a moulding offcut down and we will tell you honestly whether we can match it, rather than taking the order and disappointing you in a fortnight.
Prices you can check
Over a hundred lines published on this site. No trade-only pricing, no quote form standing between you and a number.
Cut to what you need
Not to a standard pack size. Sheets cut down in the yard, timber run to length, usually while you wait.
The people
Who you'll meet at the counter
Placeholder profiles. Replace with real names, roles and photographs of the team — this section does more for a local business than any other on the site.
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Workshop
The person who runs the mouldings and the sawing mill. Worth naming — customers ask for them.
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Counter & Orders
Whoever answers the phone. Putting a face to that voice is the single most useful thing here.
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Deliveries
The driver who turns up at the site or the driveway.
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Placeholder. A short quote from the owner about why the yard is still here after forty years works better than anything a copywriter can invent. Worth asking for in their own words.
Owner · Caldmore Timber 09 Ltd