How We Do It

Boden and Ward Stonemasons Ltd are a family owned and run company. We offer a complete service for all your masonry requirements. From initial planning, stone selection, working drawings and production of the stone through to the fixing and completion of work.

We have a wide variety of stones in stock at any one time. Choosing stone is often done by the client coming to our yard to view the stone in block form, but we can also send out samples. Most of our stone is English, but we…

The Quarry

We purchase stone in block from various different quarries depending on the type of stone required. The block comes in sizes up to approximately 7 tonnes

Transporting Materials

We collect up to 27 tonnes at a time and bring the block back to our yard.

Unloading Materials

Once the stone is at our yard, we unload the blocks or slabs with our forklift. The stone is stored ready for processing on the prima

Cutting the Stone

A block is loaded onto one of the primary saws and cut down into scants. These are smaller pieces of stone which can then be placed on the secondary saw. We have two primary saws, one has a diamond tipped wire and the other a 2.2m blade.

Secondary Saw

The scant is then put on to one of the secondary saws for further processing. The secondary saws can be programmed overnight and both have profiling capabilities and a lathe.

Carving

Once processed on the secondary saw, the stone is then taken to our banker shops where one of our banker masons will work and finish the stone.

Transport

Once the stone is finished it is put on pallets, shrink wrapped for protection and loaded for delivery to site for our fixing masons.

Installation

The pallets are unloaded on site and our fixing masons start the process of installing the stonework into its final position.

Final Touches

Once the stone is fixed, it may need some trimming in by hand

Finished Product

The finished stone is checked to make sure that everything is complete and to the highest standards