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Weather to work or weather not to work

The people of Great Britain are renowned for their love of talking about the weather.  Its almost a national pastime!  Well, for me as a working waller, over the past couple of years it has becoming something of a sore point.  The weather that is, not the talking about it.... Read More

So what can you build with dry stone?

For those in the know, dry stone is an amazing building material. Using nothing to bind it, bar the way the stones are placed together by the skill of the waller, there is a huge variety of structures and features that can created. Traditional dry stone walling in the UK was all about building... Read More

How not to build a dry stone wall

Building dry stone walls is dead easy.  You basically place one stone on top of another, or as our American cousins like to say, you “stack ’em”. And it really is that simple.  Except that you need to make sure that you cover your joins – “one on two; two on... Read More

Building walls for kids…

Today we finished building a fun dry stone playpark at the Olivebank Children’s Centre in Musselburgh.  Normally we’d be discouraging kids from playing on our walls.  In this case we decided to make an extra wide wall topped with extra soft turf and actually encourage them to climb all over it.... Read More