Sport sport sport!
So we’re through to the next round of the World cup. Our English masons are carving stone fireplaces with smiles on their faces… the French ones not so cheerful! But forget football…. did you watch that match at Wimbledon yesterday (last night!) between Mahut and Isner? It was stopped due to bad light with the 5th set at 59 games each!!!!!! The match has broken all records: Longest; most games; most aces; etc etc.
John McEnroe’s post match comentary was brilliant… saying in fitness terms what wimps the world cup footballers are by comparison. Hilarious!
Oh well, back to stone stuff: Another advantage of this glorious weather is that it dries out our stone quite quickly. When we carve your stone fireplace, we do it with the stone wet. This makes the stone easier to cut; produces less dust, and ‘lubricates’ our carving tools. The downside is that it makes your stone fireplace very heavy, as they can hold a lot of water. This can normally take several weeks to completely dry out by evaporation, but in this weather and outside, some can dry out in as little as three days. It’s not the wet that’s the problem, it’s the weight it adds to the stone.
We’re just working with a friend on a new combined trolley and lift for use when we install fireplaces. On some jobs, the installation is essentially a one man job, all except lifting the main fireplace lintel on, which needs two people (at least) We trying to make a trolley and lift that will make even that operation, a one-man job, so we can make your fireplace installation a bit cheaper.