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Grade two listed Beckley cottage repointed using moderately hydraulic lime and local building sand.

Stow on the Wold chimney and apex repointing using Otterbein quicklime.

Bledington gable end repointed using hot mixed mortar and crushed and sieved stone dust.

Yorkshire Dales grade two listed barn conversion.

Gamekeeper's cottage in just outside of Launton. 

Coarse grain lime putty mortar.

Witney cottage: extensive front and apex stone repair and renewal. Quoins replaced and repaired.

Coarse grain lime putty mortar in Buckland, Faringdon.

Littlemore apex restoration.

Hot mixed mortar front and gable restoration. Rotten quoins repaired with own blend repair mortar made from crushed and sieved stone.

Bladon, Oxfordshire: full rake out and repoint using moderately hydraulic lime and local building sand.

Two cottages joined together to make one, in Fyfield. Repointed using traditional lime and Oxfordshire sands.

This was quite an extensive rebuild where a few metres of stone needed to be replaced including eave stones and quoins.

Apex repointing, Oxford.

The photograph below is of a an aspect of an extensive property in Bledington. The stonework had suffered neglect even though it had been extensively refurbished an extended.

Project in Aston near Bampton. Full rake out and repoint.

This Cassington cottage had been relentlessly attacked by masonry bees and had suffered the ravages of cement mortar.

A simple outhouse lime putty repoint in Hampton Poyle.

Imperial handmade brick fireplace.

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Wolvercoat cottage repointed using moderately hydraulic lime and local sands.

Thornborough, Northamptonshire: converted mill barn repointed using a coarse grain lime mortar mix.

Cotswold stone and mortar made from crushed stone dust.

A converted grade two hunting lodge and barn right in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales national park.

Witney cottage: Full repoint, quoins repaired and replaced.

Stone replacement and repair in Greatworth, Northamptonshire.

Brick replacement, repair and repoint in Farnborough, south of Wantage.

The brickwork was originally lime washed and then inappropriately repointed in cement causing much damage. The remnants of the lime wash remain.

Unsightly concrete lintel faced with wood.

Lime putty front elevation restoration, Pury End, Northamptonshire.

Converted barn, Buckland near Faringdon. Repointed using traditional lime and Oxfordshire sands.

Greatworth, Northamptonshire. Full gable end with extensive restoration work needed on the apex.

Highworth: imperial handmade clay bricks repaired, replaced and repointed.

Internal brickwork, Summertown.

Stow on the Wold extensive lime works

The property had a mixture of different mortars as it had been sporadically maintained over hundreds of years.

I stripped out all of the old mortar which was a mixture of many years of additions and used hot mixed mortar.

This consists of quicklime which is what was used originally on all period properties build in oxfordshire.

Once in the presence of moisture, quicklime will heat up to 100 degrees and expand. It's the most workable, flexible, porous and sticky mortar available and it's the best choice.

Oxford rear elevation repointed with lime putty. All th cills were replaced and unsightly builder bodges were addressed.

After full repoint and a new cottage garden border and it went up for sale.

Rear of Thornborough mill barn. Stone replacement and repointing.

Soot bonds with brickwork which means it has to be replaced.