We announced it a few weeks ago but work has finally got going at our church restoration at St. Peter’s in Chorley. Over the coming weeks our masonry team will dismantle the top of the steeple entirely, ready for a rebuild. Right now, the first job is to rake out the joints ready for repointing. […]
We’ve been fitting a chimney with dog cramps, sometimes known as coping cramps, or simply cramps. Almost like big staples, they hold masonry together by being bedded into the stonework. Our director Phil was on top of a country house in Lancashire to show you what they are, and how to fit them. The bespoke
What’s the most fun piece of kit we’ve got? That depends on who you ask, really. As seen in a recent video, our director Phil will probably say it’s our brand new forklift. For our freezing office staff, probably the radiators. For some though, it’s the powerwasher. And it’s easy to see why, with powerwashing
Over the last year we’ve been working on a barn restoration deep in the Yorkshire Dales. You will have seen its progress in our 2021 Diary and perhaps our YouTube playlist. What was presented to us as a husk of a barn last winter, has evolved into a proud-standing structure. While it won’t be re-purposed
2021 has been a busy year for UK Restoration Services. We’ve travelled the country, looking back on some of our incredible projects. Winter/Spring Our 2021 started with continued work from December at Lincoln Crown Court, decorating the Colonnades. The rooftop features were cleaned up and fully restored, clearing out moss and vegetation from the Grade
It’s been a busy few weeks at UKRS as we try to fit as much restoration in as possible into the fading summer daylight. Colne Complete We’ve almost finished our job in Colne, working on the damaged roof of Colne Municipal Hall. This Edwardian theatre in the centre of the town has suffered roof damage
Earlier this year we started poking our cameras into, under and between the faces of our team on site, capturing their wonderful workmanship for posterity. We always have multiple projects on the go at once so we’re never short of action to capture. This summer has taken us through some Yorkshire barns, Darwen Tower, Halifax
For the last few weeks, if you’ve been travelling down the A56 through Foulridge, in Lancashire, you might have seen a couple of hi-vis vests filled with workers working on a small but long wall on the side of the road. This will have been Del and Andy, tearing down and then rebuilding the stones
We’ve officially begun work on Darwen Tower in Lancashire, with the 123-year old tower in need of restoration. The tower sits on top of Darwen Hill overlooking the town of Darwen, and while this location makes it highly noticable and iconic, it also makes it vulnerable to the elements of nature. Over time, the monument
This timelapse video shows the work undertaken between July and September 2020 as UK Restoration Services carried out conservation work to three bridges on the Rail Trail, just north of Beck Hole in the North York Moors National Park. These bridges once carried the Whitby-Pickering railway over the Murk Esk river but since this was
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We are pleased to announce that UK Restoration Services have been shorted listed for the Conservation & Regeneration Award at the North West Construction Awards 2020. Our recent work at Burnley Town Hall has been selected as a contender for the newly created category, focusing on the preservation or rehabilitation of old or historic buildings
UK Restoration Services have been awarded the project Contract, to complete work on the Warren Moor Chimney in North Yorkshire. The project is part of the Land of Iron, a Landscape Partnership Scheme, operated by the North Yorkshire Moors National Park Authority. Land of Iron 150 years ago many parts of the North York Moors
