Dry stone wall 52 meters of rebuild

    Drystone wall rebuild

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On this project I was working with another waller from the area, this is my first contract working in the north of england.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Drystone wall rebuild

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The wall was rebuilt in the local style (traditional pennine) a though stone every meter at knee height.

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The stone was reused from the old wall, the type of  stone was local sandstone.                                      

Merkland Estate

Stone cladding for an extension to a lodge

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This is the current project I am working on, building stone over concrete block to create the effect of a traditional build.

The stone work has yet to be pointed and air vents fitted. I've copied a template of an original iron vent to be more in keeping with a tradition build.

The client commissioned me to also build doors made to fit the two openings left in the extension.

As an extra for the client I decided to make replica steel air vents to suit the original cast iron ones as I felt modern plastic ones would have spoiled the build.

Completed Project
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Finished pointed stonework, with the doors fitted and finished air vents set in place

Date Stone incorporated into build 2012

Front elevation of lodge

Date Stone

Date Stone 2012

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This is a date stone which I was working on in my spare time. The stone was a rough piece of granite. I had to dress the stone to put a new face on it before I could inscribe the date.

Fireplace

Exposed Fireplace 

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This was a fireplace I exposed back to the bare stone. It had formally been covered in plaster and the hearth was filled in with brick. Once i removed all the plaster and brick I cleaned the faces of the stone and picked out and repointed around the joints of the stonework using a lime mortar.

garden walls and patio feature walls

 Small dwarf walls /garden feature

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This was my first project working for my own business Alasdair Mackenzie Stonemasonery.

The client a family friend had a rough idea of what they wanted for the design and from that I was able to produce a build that they were very happy with.

I sourced the stone locally, reclaimed from an old cottage, it consisted of local granite and windstone.

Small Dwarf wall

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The client specified that they wanted an opening to walk into the area, I was able to use an old sandstone lintel which I split to create two gateposts as a feature in the wall.

  Patio retaining and feature wall

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For this build I used a tradition style of random rubble building, finished off with a level cope, it was a wet wall built using a cement based mortar, usually lime mortar is used in conjunction with stone ,but due to the cost of lime and the clients budget it was cheaper to use cement.

  Patio retaining and feature wall

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Due to access the founds were all dug by hand, there was quite a bit of marking out involved as the ground was quite uneven.

  

Patio retaining and feature wall

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This was the finished build