Make your garden grow!
At last we’ve had some rain here in Leicestershire, not that we weren’t enjoying the beautiful weather. We’ve been making our stone fireplaces outside for about the last 4 weeks and yesterday was the first for ages when we got a bit wet! A lot wet actually as it rained nearly all day. Mind you, it wasn’t could, so we just donned our waterproof tops and carried on carving! The gentle fall of the rain also kept the stone nice and wet, so we didn’t need to use the hose pipe on the stone fireplaces as much as we’ve had to recently.
We’re also working on a special stone fireplace from a very historic local house. It has been damaged by builders during renovation work, so we’ve removed it, and are repairing the damage, and keeping it ’safe’ till the building works are completed. The house is also having a sympathetic extension added, and we’re going to be making another stone fireplace of a similar style for that extension.
Building works, or restorations at least, seem to be picking up a little in our area. We’ve seen a steady increase in enquiries recently, and we seem to have a lot of stone fireplaces and stone stairs to make at the moment. Of course we’d like to think it also has something to do with our reputation for fantastic quality for a good price!