Furniture restoration and French polishing in Hertfordshire

Grouped by town, the towns with most first. Nobody can pay to move up it. Each card shows the work it covers, and a business with more than one address is listed once.

8 restorers across 8 towns. 7 of them name French polishing, which makes it the common thread here as it is almost everywhere. After that it is antiques (3), marquetry (2) and veneer repair (2).

5 have their own website, 1 runs a Facebook page instead, and for 2 we hold no site of their own so the link goes to their Google listing. 6 describe their own work in their own words; for the other 2 we are going on the trading name alone, and the listing says so. One works from more than one address, listed once rather than once per town.

The broadest range of skills we hold in Hertfordshire is at Geoffrey Warwick Antique Restoration in St Albans, which names French polishing, marquetry or inlay, period specialism, veneer repair and wood turning: a sensible first call if your piece needs more than one thing doing to it.

Geoffrey Warwick Antique Restoration in St Albans, Elyse Vaudron Ltd in Rickmansworth and Halford Restorations in Bishop's Stortford each describe their work in their own words. 1 business here names four or more separate techniques, which usually means a workshop rather than one person with a polishing kit.

What it costs, whether it is worth restoring, and the mistakes that cannot be undone.