A normal thursday at the www.stonemasonrycompany.co.uk. We are actively working in central London and Kent. The 3 projects are being developed by our now designers based in Leicester.
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How start the new ! well you can do like us, a challenging hanging staircase with metal stringer on the stairwell size, a heated steps staircase, a horse shoe stone staircase with cantilever stone steps.
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What a year ! more than 200 steps in Limestone, for all our cantilever staircase, floating stair and post tension staircases.
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It can take a while for a layman to understand how sometimes it is not the harder stone that make the longest standing building ! Take clunch limestone from Bedfordshire, it has been used on so many churches in that area and there are still standing. Of course when you see a piece of lunch your first thought are,
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We prefer our stone stair to be load bearing but what a surprised to see this stair London after we installed it a while back.
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What a scheme ! when designer decide to use our stone material, marble or limestone. Geometry has always been very important part of our apprenticeship.
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It is in France this time that we have to look for some new inspiration in stone architecture. What a relief to see our noble material, sustainable, easy to build with (especially with all new lifting gear and mortar).
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Just to sum up the state of the use of stone in contemporary architecture.
2 projects recently finished in London, and both using stone as a cladding material, the Black cultural archive
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43 steps, 2flights ! 1 bespoke gantry installed in 3 weeks on site ! These are the critical numbers for the construction of this staircase in the heart of Kensington !
Read MoreWe always think of innovation in stonemasonry to be in the building method or the engineering, but what of the repairs on damage stone or limestone, caen stone, anstrude stone, or marble.
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A pedagogic piece about some tools we used to handle in the old days. All made of wood but so string and simple. Very easy to repair and reliable. Some are still in use on some site. The lifting jack are great and so strong !
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After awaiting nearly a year to have access granted to this magnificient stone staircase we fitted a while back. The central core of the house, it is a spiral staircase made of portland on 7 floors. more that 3 months on site the behemoth have made us more aware of scheduling work in central London, delivery next to one of the busiest street of London.
Read MoreWhat a joy to see a great young architect using sone for this key monument about extinction ! the Portland limestone is a great material. We have been using it for a lot of our stone staircases.
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Load bearing house.
massive stone for the construction of new build.
I would advice people to visit the website link, http://eliet-lehmann.com People have forgotten how stone is and was and will be always a building material, green, sustainable.
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There is a great pictures of one of our favorite Architect, stone lover, Luytens. What ever he designed, balance and harmony were included !
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It is all very well the cmc machine, put you can not beat the human touch. The fingers like butterflies, moving from one leaf to the other. How can the craft and skill of the human can be forgotten and deemed to slow ! The natural material, stone marble, portland stone caen stone, carrara marble need the knowledge and love of the craftsman. The client is always keen on having the beauty of sometimes irregularity of the hand. Let’s carry on our workforce all over the world to cut some beautifull steps for our cantilever stair, staircases. The finely cut treads, bull nose and astragal !
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It is not often described as this, but a workshop is a very living and noisy place. Pictures do not convey all the atmosphere of a stone workshop. The noise of the machine the hammer pneumatic or manual hitting the metal chisels.
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