SERVICES
Welcome to Heritage Stone Restorations
The repair and conservation of historical buildings and monuments is a complex and challenging discipline. At Heritage Stone Restorations we are confident that we can meet these challenges and would like to take this opportunity to introduce our Company to you.
The Company has a strong Management team who maintain a "hands on" approach, promoting their commitment and dedication to their profession. The Company employs a team of fully qualified stonemasons/conservators from the United Kingdom and Australia who ensure the highest standard of workmanship.
Heritage Stone Restorations can offer a range of specialist conservation services together with traditional stonemasonry work. These services include:
initial survey and report
analysis and identification of defects
consolidation processes
lime technology
repointing
traditional and injection treatments for salt damp
specialist cleaning including the JOS system
various poultice techniques
stone carving
Expansion of their employee skill base has resulted in additional services in:
bricklaying both in heritage and new build
ornate rendering
monumental masonry
fireplaces
As a company we are determined to build our reputation on a true understanding and feel for the conservation and sympathetic repair of our heritage buildings. We have already undertaken a number of prestigious projects through out the State and have contributed significantly towards awards for excellence in Restoration and Conservation.
We would welcome the opportunity to work with you in the future and look forward to hearing from you.
Company History
Heritage Stone Restorations Pty Ltd is an Australian owned Company incorporated in South Australia in September 1999.
Co-Director Keith McAllister has brought from the UK, qualifications in the craft of stone masonry and building conservation and extensive experience collected over a 20 year period including lecturing in stonemasonry at Bath Technical College UK, management roles in major companies, to running his own successful business.
Co-Director Kim Sutherland has an equal length of experience in Australian Heritage. As a team they have contributed experience and knowledge in stone conservation from different corners of the world that can be applied to both commercial and domestic projects.
Together, they have built a Company with a strong management team who maintain a "hands on" approach, promoting their commitment and dedication to their profession.
The company employs a team of qualified stonemasons / conservators from the UK and Australia who ensure the highest standard of workmanship.
Heritage Stone Restorations can offer a range of specialist conservation services using traditional masonry methods encompassing replacement of deteriorated stone, salt damp treatment, specialist cleaning, repointing, construction of new stone homes and buildings and stone carving.
Expansion of their employee skill base has resulted in additional services in bricklaying, both in heritage and new build and solid rendering.
As the profile of the Company has increased, a further service in Consultation has evolved. Heritage Stone Restorations Pty Ltd. has been sourced to provide general restoration advice and dilapidation reports to heritage advisers in the Government and private sectors alike.
We have already undertaken a number of prestigious projects throughout the State of South Australia and have contributed significantly towards awards for excellence in Restoration and Conservation as well as being named Specialist Contractor of the Year 2005 by the Master Builders Association of South Australia.
Services
Stone Cleaning
Heritage Stone Restorations specialises in stone cleaning techniques using the latest JOS patented chemical-free, low-pressure, rotating vortex process. It works gently and it works effectively.
The cleaning technology operates with an extremely low, and variable, air pressure (between 0.1 and 21 PSI) which can be regulated with water and an extremely fine granulate such as calcite.
JOS cleaning technology can also be used to: remove old layers of paint without the use of chemicals, clean natural stone and tiles, remove fire damage, clean off oxidation on bronze, brass, copper, anodised aluminium and other surfaces.
This system is in use across Europe and has been used on prestigious projects in South Australia and New South Wales, including:
War Memorial, North Terrace, Adelaide
Angas War Memorial
Adelaide Club
Women's Health Statewide
HSR also specialises in various poultice techniques.
Stone Carving
Stone carving and stone masonry require quite different skills, techniques and, often, temperament.
Our carving workshop, together with our highly skilled masons, produce intricate stonework of the finest quality. Such traditional masonry skills are increasingly scarce.
Having done a wide range of work in many different environments, our masons and carvers can offer a tremendous wealth of experience for all manner of projects.
The outstanding abilities of our site staff and craftsmen make them at home in the diversified environments of an historic building, monument or fast track commercial project.
Unique to HSR are stonemasons who have the all-round skills to not only produce hand worked masonry but also to fix rapidly on site when time pressures apply. These capabilities are only achieved through training, experience and thorough knowledge.
Residential / Domestic
Heritage Stone Restorations also specialize in new build such as extensions and alterations to stone and brick dwellings in order to match existing character of the original property.
Identification of stone to match original stone used is of prime importance and never too difficult a task.
Any dressing and tooling required to match stone with the existing is easily achieved by our stone masons.
Residential restoration can be paint removal, stone repair and lime mortar repairs and repointing.
HSR can undertake earthquake stabilizing of chimneys.
Salt Damp treatment
Traditional and modern methods ensures a long term solution.
Undersetting, replacing deteriorated stone and insertion of viscourse membrane.
Gravity fed siloxane fluid or chemical injection.
Conservation
Heritage Stone Restorations has a history of involvement in many large-scale projects where special expertise and craft skills have been developed to conserve historic buildings.
Some of these conservation programmes such as Auchendarroch House at Mt Barker, Yarrabee House at the National Wine Centre and the Adelaide War Memorial have revolutionised the technology and methods used in the repair and conservation of stonework.
Such experience has brought with it high levels of expertise which extend from the feasibility and material analysis stage, through to project management using our in-house specialist skills.
Major Heritage projects completed include:
Auchendarroch House, Mt Barker
Yarrabee House (part of National Wine Centre)
Government House, North Terrace
Adelaide Town Hall
Chateau Tanunda
Old Government House, Belair
Edmund Wright House
Monuments
Heritage Stone Restorations have undertaken numerous conservation projects on Memorials and Monuments, Liaising with Architects, Councils and Conservators in an effort to maintain historical monuments with a high standard of workmanship.
Some of the Memorials and Monuments restored by Heritage Stone Restoration includes :
Adelaide War Memorial
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
Colonel Light Monument
King George V
Angas Memorial
Sir Thomas Elder
Queen Victoria
Robert Burns Memorial
Restoration
Heritage Stone Restorations has a history of involvement in many large scale projects where special expertise and craft skills have been developed to conserve historic buildings.
Some of these restoration programmes have revolutionised the technology and methods used in the repair and restoration of stonework.
Such experience has brought with it high levels of expertise which extend from the feasability and material analysis stage, through to project management using our in-house specialist skills. A combination of specialist skills allows a multi disciplinary approach.
This permits the flexibility to respond to sensitive restoration within a restrictive time frame vital to restoration is the sympathetic interpretation of damaged historical fabric.
This understanding, developed through experience is fundamental. Detailed carving and bankering often carried out in-situ, requires a consistent degree of empathy to match the work of the original craftsman.
Restoration projects undertaken by Heritage Stone Restorations includes :
Jervois Building
State Bank Building
Sturt Street Primary School
Auchendarroch House
Service Categories
Stonemasons
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