More snow
just when we thought it was the last stone fireplace block that we’d have to dig out of a snow drift… we get a load more. Around 4 inches on Friday night, and surprise surprise, all the blocks are frozen together under a white blanket again. Not that the snow and cold actually hurts the stone in any way; after all, it’s a natural material that’s spent a few million years out in the weather, so don’t worry if you have stone fireplaces on order with us at the moment as they will be fine… just a bit cold! We currently working on some very special stone fireplaces at the moment for a customer’s restoration of an old house in France. (Coals to Newcastle with our French Limestone then I suppose!) There are several fireplaces, and each one is based on what they think was in the house originally. They are very large and very beautiful.
The building also needs a stone staircase putting into a stable block that is being converted into guest accomodation, but that depends on how much over-budget the project goes in stage one! Not that we will be over budget for our contribution, it’s just that at every stage, the customer is finding more work that he hadn’t noticed before.
Anyway. Here’s hoping that we soon see the end of the snow and frost so we can get on with our stonework without our thermals and woolly hats on.!