Stuart Power Dry-stone Wallers
Stuart Power has been a professional dry-stone waller for over 12 years, he is an advanced certificate holder with the DSWA. Also a teacher trainer level 1 with the DSWA. Training staff and sending them through exams set up by the DSWA. Our staff are all level 2 intermediate in dry stone walling. Stuart Power Dry-stone Wallers provide a quality walling service to the highest standards with satisfaction guaranteed.
Dry-stone Walls
A dry-stone wall (dry-stone dyke) is a wall that is built without the use of mortar to bind the stones together. Interlocking stones hold the wall in place and gives its strength and durability. These structures are used in the building trade, retaining walls used in terracing on steep slopes, boundaries for fields and for decorative purposes.
Advantages of Stone Walls
- The way they are built, dry-stone walls are very durable and strong and will stand for hundreds of years, through all conditions.
- Fire-proof boundary, unlike hedges or normal wooden fences.
- Provide shelter for livestock and act as a boundary.
- Less maintenance is needed as with a hedge or wooden fence boundary.
- Roughly the same price as a brick wall, but more durable and needs less maintenance.
- Aesthetically pleasing.
- Is a green option as a boundary, as wildlife and plants (lichen) can thrive on and inside the spaces between the rocks.
