What Is A Wildlife Tower? Firstly, any long-time fans will not recognise the phrase “wildlife tower” in our portfolio. We’ve never had to build one before, but they’re brilliant. In short, it’s a small building for all manner of wildlife to come and live and rest in. Once completed, our 5-metre structure will sit […]
Back in Grimsby, our long-term project at Scartho Cemetery has seen some stunning progress. Last year we talked about how we were removing tiles to getting stuck into the groundwork. This was followed up by some lime pointing and door frame work. Clay Tiles In The Chapel Floor After a rather cold winter of pointing
How hard is it to dig out a dyke in a boggy field? We’ve got a brand new video to watch but here’s a helpful set of tips for your next excavation! Don’t fall in It may sound simple but as you can see in the video, nobody is immune! The whole reason we’re digging
We’ve got a lot of big projects on the go at the moment at UKRS HQ, which we’re really excited to bring you over the next couple of months. But that doesn’t mean we’re stopping doing what we do best: restoration and heritage work. We’ve got brand new sites in operation for 2023 in such
Watch The Video We’ve been laying a limecrete floor in Lancashire, helping eradicate a dry rot issue. With the foamglass down and wrapped in geotextile, the day of the limecrete floor was upon us! Watch the video below for a full day with UKRS and see in detail our mix and technique. Or… keep reading!
Scartho Cemetery is coming along nicely, with work on the steeple almost done and the waiting room building being revamped. We’ve talked about the waiting rooms a lot, but what were they originally? What did the lodge do? And just how old is this site? We spoke to Lisa Logan, Head of Open Spaces from
As part of our skill set, we offer up drainage surveys to buildings that require them. We did one this week as we went to the beautiful St. Wilfrid’s Chapel in Penrith. And you can watch a video of a drainage survey in action below. What Is A Drainage Survey? Essentially, a drainage survey is
Stone Column Removal Stonyhurst College is one of our big jobs of the year, with so many different tasks and jobs. We’ve had windows replaced, removed and installed mullions, joinery work, grouting, raking out and pointing. Now we’ve been hard at work removing a stone column from the façade. As you can see from the
Lime Pointing Continues Work at Scartho Cemetery has been steadily progressing. The very top of the steeple is undergoing repointing with a lime mortar mix. With the steeple at a height and with a ferocious sea breeze, the weathering is very noticeable. Being exposed to the elements has eroded a lot of the previous mortar
Taking The Mullions Out Summer may have ended but the work continues as Stonyhurst College. Our stonemasons are hand-carving brand new stone mullions, ready for installation. The wind is really picking up on the scaffold; hard to believe temperatures hit over 40°C on-site a couple of months ago. We created a video last month about
We’re a few weeks into our work at Scartho Cemetery, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. In August we landed on-site and got going with setting up a compound and pulling up the tiles to investigate the groundwork. Our friends at K&I finished the scaffolding on the chapel allowing us to get up to the top of the
We have secured a project for the next few months over in Lincolnshire which we’re very excited about. It’s a revisit to a place we’ve worked on before – Scartho Cemetery, Grimsby. Previously we’d done some drainage work, but now we’re back for a full three-building restoration! The story was first covered by the Grimsby
