Focus on – dry stone walling projects in Perth, Kinross and Milnathort
Perth, Kinross and Milnathort – dry stone walls and gardens.
Just up the M90 from Edinburgh is the large area covering Perth and Kinross. Over the years I’ve put in the miles making the trip to the area, working on dry stone benches, retaining walls, paved areas and even an arch.
Dunning – reclaimed sandstone dry stone bench
This spiral dry stone bench was built using reclaimed red sandstone. The bench is situated in the garden of the property and gives great views over the surrounding countryside. The high side provides some protection from the winds that blow up the valley.
Kinross – sitting area with dry stone retaining walls, paving and steps
I built this sitting area in the back garden of this property near to Kinross. The garden had a pretty much unusable slope down to the beech hedge. The clients wanted to better use the space. We came up with a concept of a paved sitting space with a feature dry stone wall built into the bank. Steps and a path would lead from the house to the space.
I had long wanted to build an arch and this job presented me with the opportunity. I decided to complicate matters by making the retaining wall that the arch held up, curved!
It all worked out in the end…
Perth – large dry stone retaining walls and steps
This was a large and very labour intensive job.
My first commission was to build a small dry stone retaining wall for this client in Perth. He later asked me to look at making another larger, wall to retain a bigger earth bank on the property.
In total the walls run for 43m with most of it at 1m to 1.2m tall. 37 tonnes of new stone went into the construction – more than 500 wheel-barrow loads! I also used another six tonnes of old stone dug out of the bank. There was about 40 days of work in the job all told.
The stone is Swinton Rubble from the Hutton Stone Company
Milnathort – Dry stone bench, firepit, path and sedum.
A sweet looking dry stone seat and fire pit was built in the garden of this property near to Milnathort.
Alston stone was used for the stone work and sedum matting for the caps.
A nice, smallish and self-contained job that added a lovely stone feature to this garden.