Recent Projects

Carlops - stone steps, paths and retaining walls

We were asked to add to some existing walling work in the garden of this large house 20 miles south of Edinburgh. The client had an established garden of terraces created with rough sandstone from the Hutton Stone Co. in Berwickshire.

Our job was to extend the work already carried out by adding in two sets of stone steps, linking these with a rough stone path with edging and in a separate part of the garden build a retaining wall.

The retaining wall measured 23m by 1m high rising to 1.4m at the highest point. As added features, an old postbox was built into the retaining wall, and alpine plants placed in between the stones.

Wallers - Richard Love and Jason Hoffman.

Stone supplier - Hutton Stone - see links page for contact details.

Free estimates and consultations

We provide free estimates and initial consultations for all walling and landscaping work. If you are interested in redesigning your garden using natural stone, please contact us.

Balvenie Masters of Craft Awards

I am very pleased to announce that I was one of three people short-listed in the stone category for the inaugural Balvenie/Sunday Telegraph craftsman of the year 2011.

This new award aims to celebrate heritage and hand-built crafts over seven materials categories including stone, wood and glass. The judging panel was TV presenter and author, Kevin McCloud, Chairman of the Heritage Crafts Association, Robin Wood, expert crafts photographer, Nick Hand, Editor of The Sunday Telegraph Life, Anne Cuthbertson and the whisky industry's longest standing Malt Master, David Stewart

Further details of the winners are on the Balvenie web site