My next two jobs were in Shackleford, a small village near Guildford.
The first was to extend and raise a low wall surrounding a garden bed. The client had a supply of bargate stone, and had recently acquired more from a neighbour, which was fortunate as it becoming hard to source.
The wall was to be about 12m long and about half a meter high, but was currently quite broken down and less than half that height.
Work began in the wet and then on into the heatwave that came through. I needed a garden umbrella to keep the sun off in the afternoons as it got very sunny and hot. Plenty of water was drunk! The build took a bit longer then i’d estimated but they were left with a much more substantial free-standing wall that they could now raise the bed behind.
The second job came as a result of the first one being seen in progress. The client had a low retaining wall along the front of their property, set back from the road by a strip of grass. It was in need of a bit of TLC, there were collapses in places and most of it needed a bit of ‘tidying-up’. This is the longest wall I have worked on, 55m long, but only 30-40cm high.
Again the client had a backup pile of bargate stone to draw from and quite a few barrow-full’s were consumed. Work went quickly and it was all done in a couple of days.