Thousands of Pounds worth of Contracts Stack up at Stone
One of Darlington’s fastest-growing companies, Stone Technical Services, has secured over £75,000 worth of new work thanks to its reputation around the UK.
Stone, which specialises in high level maintenance, has been appointed to carry out significant work at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, Surrey. As well as completing the refurbishment of the chimney stack on the Grade 1 listed building, which dates back to the 1500s, Stone is also carrying out general restoration work including the repair of the original town boundary wall which will involve lime mortar pointing using specially-produced bricks.
Stone will be working on the project, worth around £55,000 to the company, with conservation specialists from Guildford Council.
In addition, Stone has also won a contract to carry out spire repairs and general restoration work at St Hugh’s Charterhouse, a closed order monastery at Parkminster in Horsham, West Sussex. The monastery dates back to the 1800s and the community is composed of a group of monks living in solitude. This contract is worth in the region of £20,000 to Stone.
Stone carries out a variety of restoration and masonry refurbishment projects on churches, museums, clock towers, castles, spires and historic buildings all over the UK and also specialises in all aspects of high level maintenance, lightning conductor installation and steeplejack services.
The company, which employs 24 people at offices in Darlington and Middlesex, works on a variety of high profile buildings such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Selfridges in London and for organisations such as English Heritage and the National Trust as well as for well known industrial clients such as INEOS Plant Utilities and Teesside Power Station.
Managing director, Dave Stone said: “Our Southern office, which we opened last year, is really enhancing the business and is allowing to grow the business further. Both of these new contracts, which are incredibly significant to Stone, are thanks to the team in the South.
“The work we have been engaged to carry out on these unusual, prestigious buildings is both complex and sensitive due to the way in which each is used. There is a very real need for us to complete the important projects sensitively without disturbing daily life at both the school and the monastery but thanks to our skilled team and working practices we are already underway with the projects to preserve the buildings for future use.”
