Nunwick Barn Nominated A few weeks ago we brought you the exciting news that UK Restoration Services were up for an award. Specifically, the SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) Heritage Awards 2022. The category was Best Loved Private Building and we had some good competition from some excellent projects. Our candidate was …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One of the biggest jobs over the end of 2021 and the start of 2022 was the restoration of Darwen Tower. Environmental Issues We hit a couple of snags along the way, some of which related to environmental activity across the moors. We’re always very conscious of not disturbing nature wherever possible (see: bats currently …
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 …
For most of 2021, we worked on a project in Nunwick, near Ripon, North Yorkshire. A barn had developed a serious lean and was in serious danger of collapse. We went in and completely stripped it down to the rotten foundations, strengthed them and straightened out the building. We gave it new slates, a brand …
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 …
St. Peter’s Church in Rylstone is a Grade II Listed building near Skipton, North Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Leeds. There has been a church on the site for centuries but the current building dates back to the 1850s, when it was restored. But in that case, restoration meant almost complete demolition and rebuild by …
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 …
