BOUNDARY / RETAINING WALLS – OLDHAM, GREATER MANCHESTER

Project – New Boundary and Retaining walls / Bridge Strengthening / Pedestrian    footways
Stone Types – Yorkstone, Arden Yorkstone, Reclaimed Dry Stone Walling and Copings
Products – New Yorkstone paving, New Pitched face walling, Reclaimed Dry stone Walling and Reclaimed Backings, twice weathered, half round and square cropped copings.

The Challenge – Oldham MBC appointed Bethel Civil Engineering and DCT Civil Engineering to supply and rebuild the retaining / boundary walls and repair the footways of the locality. This created an unenviable task of not only sourcing the correct products but to rely on a professional company large enough to supply the vast quantity required.

The Solution – As one of the largest suppliers in the UK of new and reclaimed natural stone products, Traditional Stone won the contract and supplied over 4000 tons of hand picked reclaimed dry stone walling and produced over 3000 linear metres of dry stone copings, new sawn paving and new sawn walling products were also supplied over a two year period to various schemes across the Oldham and surrounding areas of Greater Manchester.

KINDERLEE MILL COMPLEX – CHISWORTH, NEAR STOCKPORT, CHESHIRE

Project – Renovation of existing Mill, New 60 unit Apartment Block and 30 Town Houses
Stone Types – New Derbyshire Sandstone and Spanish blue slate
Products – Vintage Weathered walling, Weathered masonry and Spanish blue slate

The Challenge – The existing mill was originally built in the mid 1800’s. The Peak district local authority instructed the client to source a natural stone walling material which not only complement the existing mill but also fit into the leafy valley of Chisworth.

The Solution – After submitting over a dozen different types of walling stone, Traditional Stone’s Vintage weathered walling was selected. This unique new sawn bedded walling stone has a water based masonry dye applied to the face of the stone, it is then put through a tumbling process which distresses the arrises of the stone to give it worn reclaimed aesthetics.

The natural stone masonry had the same water based dye applied to the heads and cills to blend in perfectly with the walling stone.

The order consisted of over 2000m2 of walling stone, over 100 masonry window surrounds and 35,000 Spanish blue slates.

The timber frame development gave scope to use bespoke course heights to fit in with the surroundings, the walling stone has sawn beds and new stone tolerances, this aided speed of build and greatly reduced labour costs.

NEW OFFICE DEVELOPMENT – BINGLEY, WEST YORKSHIRE

Project – New Office Units
Stone Types – Darney Sandstone, Northumberland
Products -Pitched Face Walling, Copings and Masonry

The Challenge – Halton Homes were appointed by the client to build the next phase of this office complex using the same material as the previous phases.

The Solution – Traditional Stone’s project consultant met with the contractor on site to discuss the project and identified the existing stone.

The stone on the first phase was extracted from a quarry in Northumberland, the client had originally been advised by various stone suppliers that the quarry had stopped extracting the Darney sandstone and an alternative would need to be sourced.

Our experienced project consultant sourced the stone from the same quarry and managed to supply the exact same products as the first phase, which ensured the new office units matched the existing complex.

UPPERMILL CIVIC CENTRE – OLDHAM, GREATER MANCHESTER

Project – New extension to existing building
Stone Types – Lancashire and Yorkshire Grit stone
Products – Reclaimed Lancashire punched face walling and new sawn Yorkshire gritstone as well as masonry

The Challenge – The town planners required the extension to replicate the existing building and instructed the contractor to source the correct reclaimed walling and masonry materials.

The Solution – Traditional Stone’s project consultant met with the main contractor and members of the trust to discuss the new extension of the main building.

After identifying the existing walling stone and masonry, samples of the reclaimed and new masonry material were delivered to site for approval.

The walling stone was measured and coursed to aid speed of build and the masonry was produced in bespoke sizes in order to replicate the existing building. The order consisted of 350m2 of walling stone and 20 bespoke masonry window surrounds.

SHEFFIELD CATHEDRAL – SHEFFIELD

Project – Refurbishment to the nave and entrance
Stone Types – Stanton Moor
Products – Paving, steps, ramps

We were pleased to be involved in a £3 million, 14 month long refurbishment to the nave and entrance area at Sheffield Cathedral.

The overall project, completed in April 2014 involved new paving at the front of the Cathedral which was combined with DDA compliant access ramps to ensure a safe passage into the building for visitors.

The project presented a number of challenges including the production of the radius corduroy paving the issue was generating the raised pattern in line with the curve of the stone. This was overcome by the use of a CNC profiling machine.

CASTLE DROGO – DEVON

Project – Paving
Stone Types – UK Granite Products
Products – Paving, drains, war memorial

Our masonry department were involved with the extensive refurbishment project at Castle Drogo. They were been tasked with the supply of 300m² of UK Granite paving. The granite arrived in a block form is then slabbed, the underside was hand punched, the top and sides were tool finished. Complexities on this project were the time consuming hand tooling methods that have been used to replicate existing finishes.