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Alexander A. Britton — Stonemasonry, Brickwork and Groundwork Call or text07915 607362 Get a price →

Stone, coursed
or random

Garden and boundary walls, features and repairs in natural stone — built to sit right with what is already there, in a mortar the stone can live with.

Dry stone wallingMullions, heads & sillsLime mortar
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Stonework by Bristol Bricklayer
Built
Coursed or random rubble
Mortar
Lime or cement
Covering
Bristol and 40 miles

Coursed or random

Two ways to build the same stone

Stone is sorted before it is laid. Coursed work is squared and run in level beds; random rubble is laid as it comes, with every stone chosen for the gap it fills. They are different jobs and they look nothing alike finished.

CoursedSquared and run in level beds. Reads as deliberate, and takes longer because every stone is worked.
Random rubbleLaid as it comes, each stone picked for the gap it fills. Looks older, and is how most field and garden walls round here were built.

Asked often

Stonework, answered

If yours is not here, ring and ask it.

Lime or cement mortar?

Lime on anything old or soft. Lime moves and lets the wall breathe, so the stone takes the weather instead of the mortar. Cement on a modern wall is fine; cement against soft stone takes the faces off it.

Can you match the stone on my wall?

Usually. Local walling stone around Bristol is mostly Pennant and lias, and reclaimed is often the better match for a repair. A photograph tells you most of it.

My wall has bulged — can it be repaired?

Often. A bulge is usually the wall separating into two skins with loose fill between. It is taken down to sound work and rebuilt, keeping the stone, with through-stones to tie it.

Do stone walls need foundations?

Yes, and more than people expect — stone is heavy. A dry-stone field wall is different, but anything mortared sits on concrete.

The rest of the range

Everything else he lays

Ten kinds of job, three trades.

Brickwork Brickwork Walls, piers, arches and detail work in facing brick, laid to the bond the job calls for. Facing brickPiers & archesAny bond See the work Blockwork Blockwork Inner leaves, foundations and retaining walls in dense or lightweight block, laid level and plumb. Dense & lightweightInner leafRetaining See the work Stonework Stonework Walling, repairs and features, coursed or random — and the masonry proper: dry stone, mullions, heads and sills. Dry stone wallingMullions, heads & sillsLime mortar You are here Patios and paving Patios & paving Patios, paths and edging, set out square and laid to falls so the water goes where it should. Laid to fallsEdgingPaths & steps See the work Extensions Extensions The brick and block shell of an extension, from the footings to the wall plate. Footings to plateCavity workLintels See the work New build New build Plot brickwork for builders and self-builders, by the metre or by the job. Plot workBy the metreTo programme See the work Repointing Repointing Old joints raked out and pointed again in a mortar that suits the wall, not one that damages it. Raked outMatched mortarLime or cement See the work Groundworks Groundworks Digs, drainage, foundations and oversite — his own 360, telehandler and dumper, and a waste carrier licence to take it away. 360, telehandler, dumperDrainage & foundationsWaste carrier See the work Whole projects Whole projects Derelict house to turnkey. Groundwork, shell, trades booked and run, keys handed back. Derelict to turnkeyTrades booked and runOne person to ring See the work Commercial Commercial Site brickwork for contractors and developers, priced by the metre and run to programme. Site workPriced per m²Contractors See the work

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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.

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