Latest Building Works

It's a problem we come across all too often. A cowboy builder slaps a thick coat of concrete render on and a few years later the house owner wonders why they have damp coming through the walls. What's happening is that thick render has pulled away...

Grouting up a random stone wall is quite usual but diamond pointing is where the grouting is proud of the stonework. It's very attractive but a slow job. Once the old joints are cleaned, it takes about a day to do 2 square metres. Still, once it's...

This is an ongoing major project, the full renovation of a house with serious damp problems in Gellilydan which is a village near to Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd It involved stripping out perished and cracked, soaking-wet lath and plaster along with...

This inglenook fireplace in Llanfairfechan, Conwy was suffering from the very poor finish on the pointing which spoilt the effect. The old mortar had to be raked out and the stone cleaned up around the joints. It could have just been re-pointed but...

This house in Mynydd Llandygai, Gwynedd (North of Caernarfon and East of Bangor and Anglesey on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park) was rendered but the render was deteriorating and so it required re-rendering. The thing with render is that it...

Rebuilding a slate block wall with stone coping in Talysarn, near Penygroes, Caernarfon, Gwynedd The front wall of this house in Talysarn near Penygroes, Gwynedd had started to become unsafe and was near collapse. The answer was to rebuild it from the...

Knocking off old concrete and plaster is not the most pleasant of jobs, but we take the rough with the smooth. In the first picture you can see the dust floating in the air, which gets in your eyes and hair. The first fix electric are in place. Once...

It's not an unusual job for us to repair the render or even completely re-render a building and painting it after means we leave the job totally finished. This job was a bit unusual though. It's a 4 story, mid-terraced town house so we had to scaffold...

We're often asked to build stone garden walls and had 2 jobs in a row. One customer was in Llandygai, to the north of Bangor and the other in a village near to Porthmadog. One customer had an existing brick built garden wall that was totally at odds...