Bethel Finish WorksSanctuary Restoration
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Everything We Do

Six trades, one crew, one mobilization. Most companies in this business do pews and stop — which means you hire a second contractor for the doors, and a third for the pulpit.

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Bringing a crew across the mountains twice costs more than either job on its own. So we quote the whole room, and you decide what to do and when.

The whole room

Everything in the sanctuary that is made of wood or fabric.

Tap a pin. Each one is a page with what the work involves and what it costs.

Modern church sanctuary with oak pews, labeled by the work Bethel Finish Works does on each part of the room 1Pew reupholstery 2Pew refinishing 3Pew repair & anchors 4Pulpit & chancel 5Wainscot & millwork 6Doors & casings
  1. Pew reupholstery — new foam and contract fabric, on site
  2. Pew refinishing — refresh, refinish or restore the wood
  3. Pew repair — joints, splits, anchors, kneelers
  4. Pulpit & chancel furniture — pulpit, table, rails, screens
  5. Wainscot & millwork — paneling, trim, handrails
  6. Doors & casings — entry, narthex and sanctuary doors

Illustration of the work areas in a typical sanctuary — not a Bethel Finish Works project. Photos of our own jobs are posted as each one finishes.

01

Pew Reupholstery

New fabric and new foam, stretched and fastened on site. Three ILDs, not one — soft in the back, firm in the seat, very firm in the kneeler.

  • Contract fabric to ACT high-traffic or better
  • 2.8 lb high-resiliency foam, spec published
  • Kneelers and lay-in cushions
  • CAL 117 / NFPA 260 certificates on file
Typically$25–60 per linear footRead more →
02

Pew Refinishing

Three levels, because not every sanctuary needs a strip to bare wood — and most shouldn't have one. We will tell you which one your room needs.

  • Refresh — degrease, scuff, tone, two coats
  • Refinish — strip, repair, stain, topcoat
  • Restore — structural joinery and splits
  • Low-odor waterborne finish, product named
Typically$40–230 per linear footRead more →
03

Pew Repair

The structural work that has to happen before any finish or fabric. Reversible joinery, stock milled to match, done in place.

  • Failed floor anchors — the urgent one
  • Split seats and loose joinery
  • Broken pew ends, scarfed and spliced
  • Book racks and kneeler hardware reproduced
Typically$65–1,800 per itemRead more →
04

Church Doors

The most visible and most weathered wood you own, and the thing most pew companies will not quote. Temporary doors hung before yours come off.

  • Entry, narthex and sanctuary doors
  • Joints re-wedged before finishing
  • Exterior-grade system for your exposure
  • Original hardware saved and refit
Typically$650–4,200 per leafRead more →
05

Pulpit & Chancel Furniture

The front of the room — what the congregation looks at for an hour a week. Hand work on carving, veneer lifted and re-laid rather than filled.

  • Pulpit, lectern, altar, communion table
  • Communion and chancel rails
  • Choir screens, clergy chairs, casework
  • Memorial plates photographed and refit
Typically$55–9,000 per pieceRead more →
06

Millwork & Trim

Wainscoting, casings, handrails, window sash and balcony fronts. Custom knives ground to your original profile, not the closest stock match.

  • Spot repair before wholesale replacement
  • Window sash repaired, not replaced
  • Handrails made safe first
  • Matched to your sanctuary finish
Typically$18–110 per linear footRead more →

How we work

You will not miss a Sunday.

We put it in the contract, with a consequence attached.

01

We work in sections

Half the sanctuary at a time. The rest stays seated and usable. Services, weddings and funerals all continue — and funerals are the ones nobody plans for.

02

Low-odor finishes, named

Waterborne conversion varnish at roughly 250 g/L against 500 or more for solvent-based. The product and its data sheet are named in your contract and filed with your paperwork.

03

Cure time, told honestly

Recoat at two hours is not the same as cured. Full cure runs seven days. We schedule to it and we tell you the difference.

In writing

Sunday. If your sanctuary is not service-ready by 6 a.m. Sunday, that week's labor is free. The carve-outs are written next to it: weather that closes the road, delays on the church's side, and events already on the calendar when we scheduled.

Ten years. If a seam opens, a finish lifts or a repair fails because of how we did the work, we come back and make it right. Transferable to whoever runs the building next.

The spec. What we quote is what goes in — foam, fabric and finish named in the contract, data sheets in your file.

Where we work

Based in Utah. We travel for the work.

Most of this country's church restoration companies are in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and the Northeast. Search for pew work anywhere in the Mountain West and you will find those same firms, a thousand miles away, quoting your job with a plane ticket in it.

We are already out here. Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Montana are a drive, not a mobilization, and we price them that way. Further than that, tell us your timing and we will try to pair it with another job in your area.

Start with the report, not the quote.

Two hours in your sanctuary, every piece photographed and graded, one 18-inch section stripped and refinished while you watch, and a written document with a three-tier budget and a do-nothing cost. Free, and yours to keep whether or not you hire us.

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