A retaining dry stone wall built on the edge of a swimming pool This completes a section of wall that I began building last year, it’s the part to my left (see photo) that I did last year. This time I carved out a terrace area from the lawn to create a flat piece of...
The wall had been struck and knocked over by a truck resulting in approximately 3 metres falling over. Pictures below show either side after repair, which included a mortared flat coping stone.
This wall had fallen after ivy was removed when it had already penetrated the structure. There was also a tree root that was tilting it frontward. This small gap repair took me just a few days and consisted of me taking the foundations out, digging back and working...
18 square metres of retaining wall repaired on the edge of the school, this bordered a neighbour’s property where the path I was working on needed to be kept passable as it lead to an occupied annexe. 4 metres had fallen and there were 3 x 3 metre bulging sections. I...
A long, back garden, boundary wall. Originally less than 30cm high, throughout November and December I extended the height of this to over 2 metres, using only Cotswold limestone (no mortar). Stone was purchased from Knockdown quarry which was just a few miles from...
A short wall surrounding a herb garden, dry stone wall cladding using old stone found in the garden, built up against a timber fence. This fence was built in preference to a block wall so that tree root movement wouldn’t affect its...
