E & A Wates provides restoration services for all types of furniture from Jacobean to 20th century designs: structural work to loose joints and drawer runners replacing or treating woodwormed sections veneering services cutting in leather tooled tops to desks and conservation work. Also French polishing: strip and repolish badly damaged items clean and revive or touch in and wax lesser damage. E & A Wates also undertake cane and rush work carving and gilding and everything from making new table leaves to creating replica chairs and designing marquetry to disguise damaged surfaces.