Case Studies

Stonemasonry – Gateposts, Roundhay, Leeds

Stonemasonry – Gateposts, Roundhay, Leeds

We've recently been working here, at this period home, in Roundhay. The gateposts in their original position were too close together. Our client asked that we move the pillars further apart and also raised them by supplying an additional plinth. With...

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Lime Mortar Pointing, Farm near Ripon

Lime Mortar Pointing, Farm near Ripon

Over the years we have formed many long term relationships with our clients. Here is a farm building which forms part of an extensive estate near Ripon, North Yorkshire. We've worked on many of their farmhouses and outbuildings over the past few...

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Repointing and Brick Repairs, Howden, East Yorkshire

Repointing and Brick Repairs, Howden, East Yorkshire

We are currently working here in Howden on this period home, carrying out a variety of restoration works to its facade. The facade has been repointed with a lime mortar mix. Over time some of the brickwork has become eroded and was in need of either...

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Hinsley Hall, Headingley, Leeds

Hinsley Hall, Headingley, Leeds

  Hinsley Hall, in Headingley, Leeds, was originally a Wesleyan College and opened back in 1867. Today it is a Catholic Diocesan Pastoral Centre and Hotel. We've worked for the Catholic Diocese of Leeds on several of their other properties in West Yorkshire. Here...

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Facade Cleaning, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Facade Cleaning, Leeds, West Yorkshire

  We've cleaned, over our 50 + years in the restoration and cleaning business, many of the buildings in Leeds' City Centre. This weekend we were here on Park Row cleaning the facade and stairwell of Kenneth Hodgson House. The works were carried...

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Facade Cleaning, Adel Leeds, West Yorkshire

Facade Cleaning, Adel Leeds, West Yorkshire

We work across Yorkshire, restoring the facades of both residential and commercial properties. Here is a period home in West Yorkshire where we recently carried out chemical cleaning. The facade was cleaned with chemicals, giving a gentle clean that...

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Graffiti Removal, Centenary Square, Bradford

Graffiti Removal, Centenary Square, Bradford

  Unwanted graffiti is, sadly, very common in our towns and cities. We offer a graffiti removal service to clean your city centre buildings of this unwanted graffiti. Chemicals were used here to clean the surface of the stonework and pillars shown here, with good...

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St Augustine’s Church, Harehills, Leeds

St Augustine’s Church, Harehills, Leeds

  We recently carried out restoration works to these brick buttresses at a church in Harehills, Leeds. We've carried out over the years various works for the dioceses, in around Leeds. The brickwork to the buttresses had become damaged, or eroded. Our masons...

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Chimney Restoration, Chapel Allerton, Leeds

Chimney Restoration, Chapel Allerton, Leeds

  The stonework to the chimneys, at these period properties in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, had become badly eroded over time and were in need of replacement. Our masons dismantled the eroded, and unstable, stonework and rebuilt the chimney stacks inserting newly...

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