Recently completed projects - retaining drystone walls:

The following are some of the projects that we have completed in the past few months. Fuller details about each project, along with images are available by following the links below:

Charterhall, Edinburgh - dry stone retaining wall and steps
The main feature of a garden redesign project

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Murrayfield, Edinburgh - dry stone retaining wall and steps
Grand staircase, high retaining walls and lots of curves!

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Inverleith, Edinburgh - dry stone seat and retaining wall
Dry stone seat and retaining walls built to replace an old rockery.

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Morningside - dry stone retaining walls and steps
Dry stone retaining walls and steps transformed an over-grown bank into a formal garden..

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Tayport - stone steps and retaining wall.
Rebuild garden wall and steps

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Thornliebank - low curved retaining wall
with lights and water feature.

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Stenhousemuir - low retaining wall and steps.
Low retaining wall and steps built to improve the look of this garden.

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Carlops - stone steps, paths and retaining wall
Two sets of stone steps with paths and edging built using fairly rough sandstone. Also a long retaining wall with planting space and a post box!

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Norton House Hotel - retaining wall
Four parallel retaining walls were built using reclaimed sandstone from an old barn at the Norton House Hotel. Each retaining wall was 23 metres long and 1 metre high. In all 120 tonnes of stone was used.

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Willowbrae - small garden retaining walls
A small job to transform what was a fairly unfinished front garden. The completed retaining wall included a raised bed and a stone seat. We also replaced a decaying brick retaining wall that ran beside the driveway.

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Haddington - retaining wall
A small garden job - 5 man days in total - changed a plain sloping garden into a fantastic landscaped area with a stone retaining wall and steps as the main feature of the design.

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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

 

Latest Projects

Detailed below are some of our latest drystone walls...