The St Agnes island hall project
Last summer we were blessed to receive a call from Dawnus construction. They were undertaking the complete renovation and upgrade of the St Agnes village hall on the isles of Scilly . They had had problems with the plaster and they wanted it sorting out asap. We were delighted to go over and re...
The Coverack Cob Job
The back of this fisherman’s cottage in Coverack Had been left exposed for over ten years . It had been severely washed out and the sills were pretty shocking. I removed all the loose cob ,replaced the existing sills with good slate ones. I then repaired all the washed out areas .Then gave it two...
Cathy and Pat’s farmouse renovation
This has been one of our most challenging jobs to date . It has involved the complete renovation of a beautiful farm house situated in a very exposed position. We have replaced the roof, removed all external pointing , re pointed and rendered with lime then clad it in warm shell boards and rendered...
Bindle and Rues
Bindle and Rue are a lovely couple originally from Cornwall that acquired an old ruined farm house in Spain. I got a call early 2009 asking if i was in a position to help then renovate the place. I agreed to help and found myself on a plane flying to Santiago de Compostela. The place was a bit of a state with some walls leaning up to 11 inches out...
Nicks farm house
This is a lovely old Farm house that had unfortunately had been badly cement pointed.The client wanted to bring it back to its former glory. On the front of the house the original masons that built it had used a real mix of stone,With a wonderful mix of colours . Red ,orange and silver granite, blue elvin, rose quartz, Delabole slate are to mention a few. We had a bit...
Openings in granite
This is an opening undertaken during a barn conversion . The walls where quite shaky and required plenty of acro props . But all went well and the client was happy to create ground floor access . Making the layout of the new home complete.
Cob Mill
This was a lovely little project. Using lime render and Ragging. We had to remove a fig growing in part of the wall.
Sea Side Mansion
The Sea Side Mansion was created using a mix of new and traditional building methods.