Today, shops and souvenir shops offer a huge selection of interior items, kitchen utensils and furniture from natural wood. Chairs, figurines, coffee tables, dressing tables and other products made from noble wood species are deservedly popular among buyers of different ages.

The desire of consumers to have high-quality wooden objects in their own home is quite understandable, because wood is the most natural and natural material that maintains energy balance and provides the necessary comfort.

Why not fix it in this case? own production wood products?

Business options related to the production of wooden products

There are really many directions, let’s look at a few of them:

• creation of a workshop for the production of real wooden furniture;
• production of kitchen utensils (possibly even to order) such as carved bread bins, cutting boards, wooden utensils;
• creation of souvenirs (chess, backgammon, candlesticks self made) or simply beautiful and original products;
• production of wooden stairs - railings and balusters - to order.

Opening a small furniture workshop

To start a business related to the production of high-quality wooden furniture, you will need a fairly spacious building where workshops and warehouses for semi-finished and finished products will be located, and you will also need an office for working with clients.

Investments in this type of activity are quite substantial; they consist mainly of costs for renting premises and purchasing woodworking equipment. Practice shows that to open the smallest furniture production, you will need at least 500 thousand rubles. You will also have to spend money on quality lumber.

At first, it will not be so easy to find clients - many prefer to save money by buying cheap headsets and budget furniture sets. But later, when the business begins to develop, your profit can be very substantial and depends solely on the efficiency of the staff and the size of the enterprise.

Making kitchen items

To produce kitchen utensils from wood, you will not need many investments, since the entire business can be located in your own country house or garage.

You don't even need expensive and massive machines for this - the bulk of the work is done manually. There may also be a minimum of staff - for starters, a couple of smart woodcarvers are enough (nothing prevents you from making everything yourself, as well as selling).

True, the income will be less, but such an activity can become not only a way to earn money, but also a favorite hobby. Thus, you get the opportunity to do interesting things, thereby earning your living.

If you approach the production of wooden utensils as a large-scale business, then you cannot do without special equipment, trained personnel, and searching for sales channels for finished products. But incomes will be higher.

Making souvenirs

Most of the wooden souvenirs are associated with national flavor. It can be:

• wooden nesting dolls;
• items depicting carved (or drawn) landmarks of your city or region;
• talismans and amulets made of wood;
• hairpins, combs, mirror frames, photo frames and much more.

The demand for such goods most often arises from tourists. Although, if you create somewhat original things (for example, wooden paintings), local residents will also buy them. Well, the scale of the enterprise, as in the case of kitchen utensils, can be different - either you will work independently, or you will open a workshop with the involvement of additional workers in order to enlarge the enterprise. In any case, it’s worth starting with small batches to find out for yourself the demand for a particular product.

Other wood products

Also popular are household items such as:

• stairs;
• window frames;
• doors;
• fences, gates and even wells.

All these products are made to order. And they can bring quite a lot of profit to the craftsmen.

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Furniture made from natural wood will never lose its relevance. The demand for wooden furniture shows stable growth from year to year, despite the fact that a lot of furniture made from alternative materials (glass, plastic, metal) appears. The main reasons for this are high environmental friendliness, the absence of toxic impurities, moreover, wood carries positive energy and warmth. Wood is the best raw material for making furniture for the kitchen and children's room.

That is why a properly organized business for the production of wood goods will always find its client. The list of products that can be made from wood is very diverse:

• Tables;
• Chairs;
• Furniture for restaurants and bars;
• Gazebos and garden furniture;
• Doors and wall panels;
• Sofas and armchairs for offices;
• Cabinet furniture;
• Kitchen sets;
• Playgrounds;
• Gaming tables (billiards, poker);
• etc.

Which taxation system to choose for a wood furniture manufacturing business?

The organizational and legal form of an enterprise for the production of wooden furniture can be either an ordinary individual entrepreneurship or a limited liability company. For small workshops, at the initial stage, a regular individual entrepreneur is quite suitable, since registering this activity (as well as closing it) is many times easier and cheaper than opening a legal entity (LLC). But individual entrepreneurs cannot create their own branches, large firms are not so willing to work with them, and entrepreneurs have a greater risk of losing personal property (in case of lawsuits) than legal entities (who only risk the property of an LLC).

Therefore, with the consolidation of a business, registering an LLC promises a lot of advantages. As a taxation system, the most optimal is the simplified taxation system - simplified tax system, 6% of revenue or 15% of profit. Application of the simplified tax system exempts an enterprise from paying income tax, property tax and VAT. Switch to this special. the regime is implemented immediately at the time of business registration based on notification.

What is the OKVED code for a business producing furniture made of wood?

When registering a business, you must indicate the OKVED code in the application. The following codes are suitable for the production and sale of wooden furniture:

• 36.12 Production of furniture for offices and trade enterprises;
• 36.13 Production of kitchen furniture;
• 36.14 Manufacture of other furniture
• 51.47.11 Wholesale trade of household furniture;
• 52.44.1 Retail furniture;
• 52.44.5 Retail sale of wood, cork and wickerwork;
• 52.61.2 Retail trade carried out directly through television, radio, telephone and the Internet.

If you are opening an individual business, then in the application you should indicate all the OKVED codes under which you plan to work (you can at least 30, it won’t be too much). If you are registering an LLC, you can indicate only one code, since the charter of the LLC will state that the Company can engage in any type of activity that does not contradict the law. As for the license. Mandatory licensing and certification of manufactured furniture is not established by law. But, some enterprises voluntarily issue quality certificates for their products (to increase sales). In this case, compliance with such norms and standards as:

• GOST 16371-93 “Furniture. General technical conditions";
• GOST 28793-90. Furniture. Tables. Definition of sustainability
• GOST 28777-90. Furniture. Test methods for children's beds
• GOST R 50051-92. Furniture. Chairs. Definition of sustainability
• GOST 19917-93 “Furniture for sitting and lying down. General technical conditions";
• GOST 19194-73 “Furniture. Method for determining the fastening strength of furniture legs";
• GOST R 54208-2010 “Protective and decorative coatings on furniture made of wood and wood materials. Classification and designations."
• GOST 13715-78 “Joiner slabs. Technical conditions";
• GOST 30255-95. Furniture, wood and polymer materials.

What equipment to choose for the production of wooden furniture

To organize a full-cycle furniture production, you will need to purchase: a thickness planer, a jointing machine, a drilling and grooving machine, a circular saw for cutting wide boards, a milling machine, a grinding machine, a turning and milling copying machine, a paint gun, a drilling and filler machine, an edge banding machine, etc. auxiliary equipment. The main supplier of equipment is China and Taiwan.

How much money do you need to start a business producing furniture made of natural wood?

The estimated costs for the purchase of equipment for organizing the production of full-cycle wooden furniture are 700 - 1000 thousand rubles (including auxiliary equipment).

Raw materials used for furniture production

For the manufacture of wooden furniture, ready-made furniture panels or edged solid boards are used. The most popular types of wood are: pine, oak, beech, hornbeam, alder, birch, larch. Sawn and dried boards are purchased from forestries, forestry enterprises and private companies.

One m3 of edged pine boards will cost about 6500-7500 rubles. Particular attention should be paid to the paint and varnish coating during production. Varnish protects wood from external influences, increases resistance to moisture, thereby increasing the service life of furniture. To achieve the best result, the wood is varnished at least three times, thoroughly drying after each application.

Step-by-step plan for starting a business producing wood products

The size of the premises for organizing a furniture business directly depends on the planned production volume. If we are talking about a full production cycle (and not a “garage version”), then the following departments must be present:

1. Production workshop - the place where woodworking machines and other equipment will be located;
2. Assembly shop - a place where wooden furniture is assembled from pre-prepared parts;
3. Paint shop - a room for carrying out paint and varnish work;
4. Dryer or drying chamber;
5. Finished products warehouse/raw materials warehouse;
6. Production staff room;
7. Lavatory, shower;
8. Accommodation for administrative staff and sales managers.

The requirements for the production premises are standard and require heating, water supply, ventilation, a 3-phase network, and a fire safety system.

Technology of production and manufacture of wooden furniture

The full production cycle of wooden furniture includes the following stages: Stage 1. Preparation of a working sketch. At this stage, technologists develop three-dimensional models and working drawings of the future product.

Stage 2. Preparation of wood for production. At this stage, the type of wood is selected, as well as the solid wood is dried for 10 days until its humidity drops to 80% of the original values.

Stage 3. Dissolving furniture panels using a multi-saw machine. At this stage, the bark is removed and the board is cut into specified sizes.

Stage 4. The cross cutting machine removes knots, resin pockets, crooked areas and other defects.

Stage 5. Merging the bars along the length - preparing the lamellas. Wooden blanks are laid out on the table, aligned along the edge and pressed with a press from above and on the sides. Once the programmed length is reached, the lamellas are cut and sent to the press.

Stage 6. Gluing lamellas. The lamellas are sanded on both sides and glued together using a fan press, taking into account the guide fibers. The gluing time is 40-50 minutes.

Stage 7. Forming a shield of the required size using a band dividing machine.

Stage 8. Planing the lamella on both sides on a thickness planer.

Stage 9. Sawing furniture panels to the required thickness using a calibrating grinding machine.

Stage 10. To create additional strength, solid wood is finished with veneer.

Stage 11. Reaming mounting holes on a drilling and attachment machine. The production of individual furniture parts is carried out on automated machines according to specified parameters. Such machines make all the necessary cuts, cuts and veneer edges.

Stage 12. Finished products are subject to inspection for defects and defects.

Stage 13. All parts are sanded 3 times to give the product perfect smoothness.

Stage 14. Varnishing and painting furniture in accordance with the specified design.

Stage 15. Drying of the product.

Stage 16. Packaging of the product and sending it to the finished product warehouse. In addition to the full cycle, there is also a short production cycle. This is when the raw materials for the production of wood products are ready-made dried panels, which are sanded, sawn into certain parts, assembled and varnished.

Staff The required staff of even a small wooden furniture production enterprise includes:

• constructor-designer;
• technologist;
• carpenters-machine operators (from 4 people);
• carvers;
• auxiliary workers (from 2 people);
• Sales Manager.

The company will also need an accountant, a cleaner, a personnel officer and a lawyer. However, most small businesses, for the purpose of reasonable savings, outsource these workers. It is not profitable to employ such employees full-time when production volumes are small. conclusions Organizing the full cycle production of wooden furniture is a very complex matter. The project manager has to solve such important issues as: selection of qualified personnel, motivation of personnel, selection of high-quality wood and paints and varnishes, purchase of expensive equipment and tools, study and implementation of carpentry technologies, regular retraining of production personnel, management of sales, processes, people and much more. It is for this reason that many inexperienced beginners in this field will face inevitable collapse. According to some market players, the best way study the industry with minimal risk - organize the business in a somewhat “truncated form.” For example, you can only design furniture and entrust the production processes to an experienced artisan. The key task of organizing a business will be to find a responsible and competent partner.

How much can you earn making wooden furniture?

The payback period for such a business is on average 2 years. The competition in this area is quite large and in order for your business to flourish, you must constantly take care of the quality of products, analyze the market and competitors, carry out advertising activities and attract new customers through constant improvement and expansion of the product range. With proper business organization, the annual net profit will be up to 40 percent of costs, which is definitely a fairly good indicator.

What documents are needed to open a business producing wooden furniture?

First you need to decide on the legal form of the enterprise. The organizational and legal form will depend on the choice of potential consumers of your products - individuals, small entrepreneurs or legal entities and institutions. Required documents to register an LLC:

1. Name of the enterprise.
2. Discovery decision protocol.
3. Information about the founder and accountant.
4. Requisites.
5. Charter
6. A document confirming payment of the state fee.

Do you need permits to open a business?

List of permits for starting a business producing wooden furniture.

One of the riches of Russia is forests. Consequently, it is also rich in derived material – wood. This is the most environmentally friendly and suitable material for the manufacture of any product. It has been widely used for many centuries and now, with the availability of many other types of raw materials, wood firmly holds its position as everyone’s favorite material. Items made of wood are always in fashion and highly valued, because they are practical, durable, and with high-quality processing they look elegant and stylish. Therefore, when implementing a business idea for the production of any wooden products, entrepreneurs will face high demand for products and regular income.

Artistic wood cutting provides aesthetic pleasure. And modern wood carving technologies make this art accessible even to the fairer sex. With their help, the most difficult types of wood to process become real masterpieces.

There are many options for implementing a business idea for wood production:

• production of furniture from natural wood;
• production of wooden doors, stairs, fences, gates, window frames, garden paths and other large products for home and garden to order;
• production of household items: mugs, plates, crushers, cutting boards, tramples, etc.;
• creation of educational children's games and toys (almost all conveyor toys are made from industrial plastic containing impurities harmful to the child's body);
• creation of logical board games, puzzles for adults;
• making souvenirs, joke gifts and other beautiful original products.

The most capital-intensive enterprises produce wood furniture, stairs and doors. You cannot do without expensive equipment for processing and artistic cutting of wood. Other types of business ideas for wood production will require cheaper but good quality tools (from 3000-4000 rubles). In any case, each item, skillfully made from any type of wood, has its own unique character and living energy.

Stages of implementing a business idea

1. Registration of business activities. When starting a business, you always need to think globally, without being limited in plans and development. Therefore, it is advisable to take on a large-scale business - producing furniture, doors, windows and other items necessary in every house, apartment, or cottage. They are beautiful, elegant, and bring warmth and comfort to the home.

Having decided to take up entrepreneurship seriously, you should register it as a legal entity or individual entrepreneur. Since the law gives equal rights and opportunities for doing business to a legal entity and an individual entrepreneur, and the tax and accounting of a legal entity is somewhat more complicated, it is more advisable to register your business as an individual entrepreneur and choose a simplified taxation system.

Before registering an individual entrepreneur, you should select the type of activity from All-Russian classifier economic activity (it indicates all currently existing types of activities that can be carried out on the territory of the Russian Federation).

At the Federal Tax Service at the place of registration, you need to go through the procedure for state registration of individual entrepreneurs. Have with you: a passport and a copy of a citizen of the Russian Federation, an application for state registration, an original and a copy of the Tax Registration Certificate, an original paid receipt for payment of the state duty (the receipt is issued by the tax service, you need to pay 800 rubles). A copy of the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, TIN, and the application must be notarized. The cost of notary services is 500-1500 rubles.

With the entire package of documents, you need to obtain a Tax Registration Certificate from the tax office and go through the individual entrepreneur registration procedure. At the same stage, you can write an application for the transition to a simplified taxation system.

In total, registering an individual entrepreneur will cost approximately 5,000 rubles.

WARNING: citizens of the Russian Federation with limited legal capacity, civil servants, employees of municipal bodies, people without permanent registration in the territory of the Russian Federation cannot be individual entrepreneurs.

1. Search for premises. To begin with, in order to save money, you can practice your craft in a warm, dry garage or barn. If you do not have your own premises, you can rent it outside the city - again in order to reduce costs. Renting the premises will cost from 5,000 rubles.

After promotion, to create a solid business, you will need a spacious building where workshops, warehouses for semi-finished and finished products, and an office for working with clients will be located.

To open a furniture and carpentry business, it is necessary to obtain permission from the fire inspection authorities, since fire inspectors pay special attention to such production. No wonder: after all, everyone knows the excellent flammability of wood. Therefore, it will be correct to comply with the requirements of fire supervision. The cost of the permit is from 6,000 rubles.

1. Purchase of equipment. Essential items will require a circular saw, a milling machine, a jointer, an electric drill, a hammer, a mallet, and needle files. Cost – about 85,000 rubles. After business development, you may need a grinding machine, drilling and slotting machine.
2. Purchase of raw materials. In furniture production, the main material is wood. The cost of 1m³ is from 5000 rubles.

We also need these Consumables: sandpaper, brushes, glue, varnishes, paints. Expenses are approximately 3000 per month.

1. Search for buyers. The business of manufacturing wood products is creative; in addition to skill, good taste and imagination are required. It is these components that will always help maintain demand for products and create an excellent reputation. It is more cost-effective to produce products to order first. In the future, the products can be sold in markets, construction and furniture stores, at fairs, when expanding your business, you can open your own store.
2. Calculation of financial indicators. By producing and selling 10 doors and 3 carved coffee tables in a month, 2.5 m³ of wood will be consumed. The price of one finished product is 5000-7000 rubles. The proceeds from the sale will be about 90,000 rubles. profit - 50,000-70,000 rubles.

Thus, net profit (after taxes) for one year of operation of this business will be 0.5-0.7 million rubles, and the payback period for capital investments will be 3-4 months.

* The calculations use average data for Russia

Starting investments:

from 200,000 ₽

Required area:

Today, carpentry workshops are becoming a rarity, so before opening your own business in this direction, you should seriously think about what products you can offer to the market.

A carpentry workshop is a business that can become not only your hobby or a means of earning money, but also a vocation. The same thing that brings both material and spiritual satisfaction, pleasing both the soul and the pocket. But for such a happy combination you will have to try very, very hard. In this article we will not talk about creating a large carpentry shop, but will limit ourselves to current advice on opening a small workshop at home “for one” with the prospect of turning self-employment into something more.

Pros and cons of carpentry workshops as a business

The first thing to start from in the carpentry business is the presence of hands and the desire to create something with these hands. People who are going to open a carpentry workshop, and even more so, make money from it, should focus on improving their skills. But before you seriously begin to arrange the premises and equip it with equipment, you need to understand at least in general terms the current situation on the market. Three things separate approaching carpentry as a business from approaching it as a hobby. This is a rational and deeply thought-out approach to the choice of specialization, to the quality of work and to methods of promotion.

The first thing to start with is the question of what exactly you will produce. Wood is a material with an infinite number of uses. First, look at what small carpentry workshops, that is, your future competitors, specialize in today, and how they are doing.

Regarding the choice of assortment, carpentry workshops usually have two options: broad specialization or narrow specialization. In the first case, the emphasis is on quantity (more customers, larger assortment, more choice), in the second - on quality (narrow assortment, high quality workmanship, narrow audience). In other words, if you learn to create many different products from wood, you can offer them to more people, and by focusing on one or two products, it will be easier for you to improve your craft and create exclusive products.

What products can carpentry workshops produce:

Doors/windows. The most obvious solution for a carpentry workshop is to create doors and window units that everyone needs, and make extra money by installing them. The problem is that doors and windows have been actively “stamped” by large manufacturers for a long time, and the market today is very saturated. In most cases, it is useless for carpentry shops to compete with factories. The price for these products will still be cheaper, and it has become difficult to surprise the customer with anything.






Stairs. Stairs provide more space for creative thought. Unlike doors and windows, a carpentry workshop that specializes in stairs has the opportunity to offer original sizes, unusual shapes, unusual species, and a unique design in general. However, there are already many companies on the market that create stairs and have achieved a high level of skill in their business, and it will be very difficult to catch up with them from scratch.




Furniture. With furniture, the situation is approximately the same as with the first two categories. Now on the market there is a huge amount of furniture for every taste and budget. Thanks to such hypermarkets as Castorama, Leroy Merlin, Ikea, furniture is becoming an increasingly accessible and mass-produced product. However, even the variety that is on the market leaves many opportunities to create an exclusive assortment that cannot be found in stores. A small workshop can rely on an original assortment, offering tables, chairs, chests of drawers, cabinets, armchairs, etc., made from expensive types of wood and with an unusual design.






Small goods. This is a broad category of goods that is united by one quality - size. Here we mean souvenir goods, and all kinds of gift kitchen sets with cutting boards, spatulas and rolling pins, and frames with baguettes, and board games, wooden toys (you can see unusual ideas for wooden toys) and so on. If, say, in jewelry, size does not matter, then in carpentry everything is different. Even for a designer wooden product made from expensive wood, you won’t get much income, since the price of 1,500-2,000 rubles will seem excessively high to the buyer. The average consumer will always have an alternative in the form of a plastic product that is 5-10 times cheaper. Connoisseurs of original art will always have to find it with great difficulty. Therefore, before you decide to produce wooden toys, pipes, salt shakers, ashtrays, cutting or gingerbread boards and other things, think about whether you can regularly produce and sell at least 50 of these small products in order to receive at least 50 thousand for them . rubles. Or is it better to make one chest of drawers in the same time and sell it for the same money?

What is the best way to position your products today?

The second question, which is also better to think about in advance, is the question of a unique selling proposition and the question of quality. To make your products different from what the mass market offers, first of all pay attention to the material. Firstly, what kind of tree will it be? What colors and supplies will you use? What will be the design of your products?

*according to Yandex Wordstat as of September 12, 2018

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If we talk about the furniture segment, then according to search queries, the most popular wood for it is pine. It is almost five times more popular than oak. At the same time, experienced joiners and carpenters advise not to be too deluded by pine. Firstly, well-dried pine is difficult to find. The properties of this wood are such that it is difficult to paint well, leaves a lot of dirt on the instruments, and as a result, leads to costs.

*according to Yandex Wordstat data as of September 11, 2018.

Secondly, products made from the most popular wood have a price corresponding to their mass production. Let's say, teak furniture will cost several times more than pine furniture. That is, by choosing an unusual material, you can significantly increase the profitable component, which is included in the price of the finished product.

One way or another, the quality of your furniture products will depend on the components. You can work along the path of maximum cost reduction by purchasing cheap components from China, or give preference to more expensive but reliable suppliers of accessories. Austrian, German and Italian manufacturers of accessories that have representative offices in Russia and actively promote their products are considered recognized leaders in the quality of fittings.

Representatives of the carpentry business are increasingly becoming supporters of the fact that today handmade products need to be positioned as expensive. The market situation has changed diametrically. If earlier everything that was produced by carpenters was bought hand and foot, and there was a constant demand for carpentry work, now, in order to survive, work on quality, not quantity. As with many other areas of business, today's woodworkers are increasingly required to master sales and marketing.

*according to Google Trends service

The peculiarity of the carpentry business is that no one will tell you exactly what price you should charge for a table, chair or bedside table, because there are no average prices in the carpentry business. The modern approach is this: you calculate the price of the materials, paints, varnishes and components used, and then multiply the result several times. And exactly how much depends on how expensive the master positions himself and on the level of his skill. As a rule, a markup of 100% is not justified; today, manual labor can and should be charged a much higher price.

What kind of room is needed for a carpentry shop?

Let's return to more traditional questions directly related to opening a workshop. To accommodate a small carpentry shop, a room with an area of ​​50-60 square meters is best suited. meters. Renting such premises will cost approximately 20 thousand rubles per month.

Average rent for renting industrial premises in Russia, rub.*

*according to analysis of Avito advertisements as of September 12, 2018

It’s clear that not everyone can afford rent, especially at the start. Therefore, most often carpentry workshops are opened at home, using sheds, garages or basements for these purposes.

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When choosing an area, you first need to consider the length of the room. If you are manufacturing door and window frames, then the length of the room should be at least four meters. The inside of the workshop should be warm and dry, since wood is afraid of moisture. When arranging the room, do not forget that you need smooth floors, since the machines must be installed stably.

For uninterrupted operation, it is advisable to supply the workshop with three-phase electricity. If the workshop room is built of wood, the wiring must be laid in wires or corrugated pipes, and sockets and equipment must be grounded.

If the workshop is located close to housing, take care to soundproof the walls and doors. It is advisable that the windows face the direction where there are no residential buildings. It is also necessary to comply with fire safety requirements. The internal lining of carpentry is usually treated with fire retardants, which prevent fire. It is advisable to have a powder fire extinguisher or at least a bucket of sand in the building in case electrical appliances catch fire.

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Many workshops do not pay much attention to ventilation. However, without a flow of fresh air into the workshop, you are doomed to constantly inhale wood dust. And this threatens certain health problems, which you can easily find out about on the Internet.

What equipment is needed for a carpentry shop?

The issue of equipment is one of the most difficult in planning a carpentry workshop. It is worth keeping in mind that there is no universal and generally accepted list for a carpentry workshop. The choice of equipment depends on a large number of variables: what exactly is being produced in the workshop, the area of ​​the room, production volumes, the experience of the craftsman, and so on.

Therefore, you only have the desire to create wooden products, say, your own furniture, and you only have experience in making simple products that do not require any special tools (tables, simple shelves, stools, etc.). In this case, you should start not with the purchase of serious units and machines, the purpose of which you do not yet have a clear idea of, but with the purchase of the most basic set. Conventionally, it can be divided into four groups.

A minimum basic set of tools that will allow you to create simple furniture

If you don’t spend money on buying a workbench, but assemble it by hand, then 30-40 thousand rubles will be enough to buy such a set. With a wider scope, screwdrivers and jigsaws, of course, are no longer enough, the list will expand significantly, and equipping the workshop will cost at least 200 thousand rubles, with the purchase of a good milling machine - more than 300 thousand rubles.

Approximate list of equipment for a small carpentry shop

Here are a few principles regarding the acquisition and use of equipment that carpentry shop owners are advised to adhere to:

The price of the equipment should correspond to the level of development of your business. Many craftsmen without experience are tempted to spend money on unreasonably expensive equipment that does not correspond to the level of development of their business and needs, and also does not provide any significant advantages in speed/quality. It is necessary to remember that expensive equipment of elite brands is always less liquid than cheap and “popular” equipment. It is both more expensive to maintain and more difficult to sell. Therefore, to begin with, it is better to get by with the most proven devices. For example, if your products do not have a large length, the so-called molding, there is little point in necessarily purchasing a milling machine for 100 thousand rubles or more. To begin with, it’s better to get by with a manual router, which can do almost the same thing, but will cost several times less.

Strive for equipment versatility. You should not unnecessarily shell out for those types of equipment that can be replaced or that will simply sit idle. For example, spending money on a plunge-cut saw with a guide bar when there are cheaper and more versatile circular tables. Even if you need to unravel a sheet, it is easier and faster to use the services of companies that own format-cutting machines, which can, at a low price and with more high quality loosen the leaf.

Purchase new equipment gradually or with large orders. It makes the most sense to think about purchasing new equipment as your skill increases and after large orders. The rest of the time, you should try to gradually set aside a small share of your profits for depreciation expenses, and from that you can purchase new machines.

Observe the principles of priority when arranging equipment. If drilling and lathe machines are located close to the workbench, then grinding machines are placed at some distance from the workplace. In addition, a good craftsman should always have everything at hand, so the workbench usually has cabinets, racks and hanging shelves.

Don't forget about safety precautions. No matter how safe and familiar the work process may seem, have a first aid kit nearby. Also use safety glasses and thick clothing. Work with buttoned sleeves; if your hair is long, hide it in a headdress.

Don't create piles. When arranging the premises, keep in mind the purchase of new machines in the future. Ideally, the free space should be twice the space for the machines. Lack of space can disrupt the process. The work plane must be approached from several sides. Also, you should not turn the room into a warehouse: the wood should go into circulation, and not lie in the corners.

Is it necessary to hire workers for a carpentry shop?

At the initial stage, while the volumes are small, it is easier and faster for the master to act alone. However, this does not mean that no hired force will ever be useful to you. Woodworkers usually require helpers for rough work or apprentices. They may carry boards, jointer, remove shavings and debris, or perform other light duties. The labor force is usually teenagers looking for summer work or young people.

It is worth noting that experienced carpenters are usually in no hurry to grow a full-fledged replacement for themselves. And their fears are understandable: there is a great risk of turning a student into a competitor who can steal clients for himself. Therefore, the matter is often limited to auxiliary workers with negotiated wages.

Please note that the average salary of a carpenter in Russia at the time of writing is about 38 thousand rubles, in Moscow and St. Petersburg - about 54.5 thousand rubles. Therefore, if you are absolutely sure that your net income will not differ much from these figures, think again about the advisability of opening your own workshop. Today the word “business” is very popular, but with such low turnover, being hired will have many more advantages compared to sailing on your own. In this case, it makes more sense to continue producing wooden products as a part-time job and hobby, gradually gaining experience and a client base.

Average salary level for the professions “joiner/carpenter”, “joiner/carpenter assistant”, rub.

*according to advertisements on the Avito website 09/12/2018

If you have the idea of ​​opening a carpentry shop, but you are not going to work in it yourself, then the chances of finding a free carpenter who will work for you are close to zero. All masters with experience, as a rule, are employed and have a good income, and masters “worse and cheaper” often abuse alcohol or have experience in places not so remote and, let’s say, lost to society. In this case, it will be easier and more rational for you to place your orders from existing workshops and pay for their work, and then sell the finished products.

Ways to sell and promote carpentry products

It is no secret that the traditional formats of carpentry workshops are at a clear disadvantage in terms of sales today. As a rule, they are located on the outskirts of cities and in industrial zones, where no one sees their activities, and the owners, who managed to find some kind of regular clientele, do not always care about promotion and modern methods of communication with the audience.

In the meantime, no matter what horrors and economic crises frighten us from all sides through the media, the number of target audiences that can bring good income to carpentry workshops is gradually growing. Pay attention to the pace of suburban construction, the emergence of new cottage villages, people who are interested in buying garden furniture and quality wooden products for home. These people want to furnish their homes with maximum comfort and make them unique at the same time. Therefore, it is good if your workshop is located in full view of the target audience and is imprinted on their memory. It shouldn’t just be convenient to get to the workshop, people should see what you do. A good location will help in developing and achieving the “word of mouth” effect. According to the experience of the masters, a person who visits a workshop live almost 100% becomes its client.

Ideally, the workshop owner should try to cast the maximum number of “fishing rods” in all channels that can contribute to sales growth.

Ways to reach clients:

If some methods of reaching clients are quite passive (for example, publishing advertisements) and require one-time efforts (creating a business card website), then for others, for example, social networks, will require constant maintenance and time. Therefore, it will be good if you get an assistant who will monitor these issues. Exhibition samples for presentations and exhibitions, custom photographs can also be costly items for promotion. finished products, printing consumable promotional products, such as business cards.

Furniture repair business

The payback period for a business providing standard services (furniture repair and upholstery replacement) ranges from two months at minimum investment(from 10 thousand rubles).

Wood processing is one of the oldest crafts in human history. It provided a stable income for many generations of those who practiced it professionally. The simple fact does not need proof that with modern technologies and rational organization of business, a woodworking workshop is capable of generating a good and stable income.

Where to start

And you should start with a simple understanding of the fact that no business is possible without a well-thought-out plan for the near and distant future. This applies to any business in general. Both commercial and industrial. Woodworking is no exception. A business plan implies a strategy for the development of an enterprise for a specific period of time. It should indicate the economic and financial indicators that management is obliged to achieve, and the ways to achieve these results.

How to plan a business

It is simply impossible to foresee absolutely everything in advance. Such a seemingly traditional process as woodworking, the business plan of which includes several important points, requires a mandatory level of qualification both on the part of management and all personnel of a small enterprise. Without this most important factor, any plans, even carefully calculated ones, are doomed to fail.

When drawing up a business plan for a woodworking enterprise, it is necessary to clearly understand the state of affairs in the regional market and the degree of demand for the products and services that you intend to offer to potential consumers of your products. A rational business plan includes organizational, production, marketing and financial components.

Woodworking, whose business plan and rational marketing are correctly focused on the needs of the construction market of the region, is simply doomed to success. Demand for lumber is stable. In short, business planning comes down to correctly identifying the market need for products and finding a way to produce these products.

Required documents

Wood processing in any of its specializations does not require state licensing. However, it is best to do some approvals before starting production. Woodworking is essentially about materials that burn well. Therefore, the entire production base must fully comply with technical fire safety standards.

The fire department should be contacted to inspect the production premises and surrounding areas. Typically, the inspector compiles a list of detected non-compliances with standards and issues an official order to correct them within a certain period. The same algorithm of actions applies to communication with representatives of the sanitary and epidemiological station. The production base must comply with environmental protection standards and labor safety conditions.

These are the current realities. Without communication with administrative structures, not a single type of manufacturing business is possible, including woodworking. A business plan can only be implemented after passing some bureaucratic approvals. An attempt to optimize this process is quite possible, but one should be aware that all the trump cards in this game are not on the entrepreneur’s side.

Choosing a direction

Woodworking technology differs mainly in the degree of impact on the material being processed. Conventionally, wood processing can be divided into primary and deep. The primary cycle involves the production of construction lumber, and subsequent cycles involve the production of joinery products of varying complexity from the resulting wood. Accordingly, woodworking enterprises usually specialize in one direction or another. And much less often they combine the first with the second.

Sawing round wood

This is the easiest way to make money. The initial costs of this business can be recouped in one construction season. The woodworking technology of the primary cycle is not particularly complex. Sawing round wood into building timber of different sections and into boards is usually done using a band-type sawmill.

You can even do without capital premises and install the equipment only under a canopy, protecting the production process from precipitation. But when launching such a business project, you should keep in mind that usually the business ends with the construction season. In winter, the demand for lumber is minimal.

Carpentry production

This type of wood processing is incomparably more complex in technology and requires significant material investments. Woodworking machines of the carpentry cycle are distinguished by their great variety and significant cost. But the successful operation of a small woodworking enterprise is impossible without four basic machines. They are the basis of any carpentry production.

These are a circular saw, a jointer, a thickness planer and a milling machine. In addition, joinery products are made only from wood of appropriate quality. To do this, you will need to create a separate drying cycle for the material or buy ready-made dry wood, which is very expensive. Carpentry production can generate a steady income throughout the year, regardless of the construction season. But significant material investments in production premises will be required. It must be heated.

How to use wood waste

Technological processes for wood processing are always associated with the generation of large amounts of waste. They have a negative impact on the production process if their timely removal and disposal is not rationally organized. But the peculiarity of this type of production is that almost all waste generated during wood processing can be successfully sold and bring tangible profits.

From shavings and sawdust to cuttings and slabs inclusive. The demand for bulk fractions of wood waste is especially active in the autumn period of the year, when there is a need for insulating and insulating materials before the onset of cold weather. It should be noted that the timely removal of wood waste likes to be monitored by fire and sanitary inspectors supervising the territory under their jurisdiction.

Safety

Technological woodworking tools always rotate quickly and have many sharp edges and edges. Almost all woodworking machines require a mandatory minimum level of qualifications from the personnel working on them.

It is not news to anyone that the level of injuries in the woodworking industry is quite high. And this circumstance requires the management of the enterprise to constantly monitor the production process and the state of discipline in the headed workforce. The entrepreneur is responsible for ensuring labor safety conditions, in accordance with current legislation.