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!
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What is Dry Rot? In short: Dry Rot is a living, growing fungus that loves damp conditions and timber. If you have wood in your house, it needs to be sufficiently ventilated to prevent growth. What Does Dry Rot Look Like? It starts with spores invisible to the human eye. They are everywhere and constantly
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
Ribchester Bridge History And Listed Status Ribchester Bridge is a Grade II Listed bridge between the villages of Ribchester and Dinckley in Lancashire. The bridge is coming up to 250 years old, having been built in 1774. Although, this crossing point has been active for millennia. The nearby ancient Ribchester Roman Fort was built in
Core Drilling Most people will be familiar with drilling. Normally, domestically, it’s using a hand drill to put up shelves or some other chore you’ve been putting off. Core drilling though, is a different beast entirely. Core drilling is on a grander scale, for drilling many metres into a building or other solid. A hand
The plan was so simple. We were going to go to Read, near Burnley, Lancashire, with our big truck and grabbers. Then, just take away a phonebox from the side of the road. Simple! The local parish council had put their disconnected phonebox up for sale, and you never know when you’re going to need
