The work

Walls and piers, chimney stacks, foundations, arches, stone repairs and edging — the kinds of job he is called out for.

Every photograph here is one of his own jobs. More go up as they are taken. If you want to see something closer to what you are having done, ring and ask — he would rather show you a real one than talk you through a picture.

Sawn grey paving and steps rising to an upper terrace between coursed stone retaining walls, with a dry stone wall behind — **Retaining walls, steps and paving**Coursed stone walls holding two changes of level, steps up to the upper terrace, and sawn paving laid throughout.

A sandstone patio with steps up the middle between curved retaining walls and planted beds — **A garden rebuilt end to end**Curved retaining walls, steps up the centre, beds behind them and sandstone paving over the whole of it.

A chimney stack rebuilt in red brick above a slate roof, with new pots set on it — **A chimney stack rebuilt**Taken down to sound brickwork and rebuilt, the pots reset and the whole stack flaunched and leaded in.

An extension going up in facing brick with a flat arch over a wide opening, scaffold still around it — **An extension in facing brick**Brick chosen to sit with the house, a flat arch turned over the opening, and the cills run through.

A wide structural opening in a stone wall, propped with Acrow props and a timber needle while the beam goes in — **A wall opened up and held**Needled, propped and taken out in one piece, with the beam in before anything came off the props.

An insulated raft foundation on a new plot, blockwork rising off it and insulation panels pinned around the edge — **A new plot, out of the ground**Insulated raft, perimeter insulation pinned and the first blockwork off it, level and square for whatever goes on top.

A concrete access ramp curving between new stone retaining walls outside a commercial building — **An access ramp, in stone**New retaining walls in local stone either side of a poured ramp, built to the gradient the access needed.

A random rubble stone boundary wall with flat coping, built either side of a new gateway — **A stone wall and a new gateway**Random rubble in local stone, squared up either side of the opening and finished with flat coping.

A patio in mixed-colour riven slate beside a glazed single-storey extension — **Riven slate, laid to a pattern**Mixed colours set out so no two of a kind sit together, run right up to the new extension.

A finished house with a block paved drive, brick retaining walls and steps up to the door — **Drive, retaining walls and steps**Block paving laid to falls, brick retaining walls holding the bank and steps up to the entrance.

An excavation opened in a lawn and lined with geotextile membrane, ready to take stone — **The part nobody photographs**Dug, trimmed and lined before a stone goes in. Most of what fails later was decided at this stage.

An aerial view of a finished site: resin-bound drive, lawns, paved terraces and parking laid out between the buildings — **A whole site, finished**Drive, parking, terraces and lawns set out between the buildings, start to finish.

Get a price

Tell him what you are having done

A photograph of where it is going and a rough size is usually enough to come back with a sensible figure. He will call you.

Or call 07915 607362