Recent work across cottage country

Plate 02 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

New decking runs the full length of the pier past the covered slips.

Plate 05 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Rebuilt dock deck in pressure-treated lumber, with vertical facing boards carried around the slip and out to the mooring post.

Plate 06 — Siding · Georgian Bay

Charcoal lap siding with white window and door trim across the rear elevation.

Plate 07 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Stone-faced columns and porch wall with dark stone treads over the poured concrete steps.

Plate 09 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

New decking carried along the shoreline, the next boards stacked and ready.

Plate 12 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Rebuilt dock deck framed tight around the piling, with a cleat set flush at the edge

Plate 15 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Rock-faced stone veneer wrapping the porch piers and skirt, with dark stone treads set on the three entry steps.

Plate 16 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

New decking run along the boathouse on the water side

Plate 24 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Flagstone patio washed clean, its irregular stones tight jointed and edged by a stacked stone wall.

Plate 39 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Flagstone patio part way through pressure washing, with the cleaned stone showing against the untouched section.

Plate 40 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Existing flagstone patio under pressure washing, weeds and debris pulled out of the joints.

Plate 41 — Decks · Georgian Bay

Covered porch stripped back to its framing, the timber posts left standing while the column bases are built up.

Plate 42 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Column base wrapped and combed with a mortar scratch coat.

Plate 43 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Combed mortar scratch coat over lath on a porch column, sitting on its stone base.

Plate 44 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Stone facing carried along the porch skirt, with timber posts set the length of the covered front.

Plate 45 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Stone veneer going up the porch skirt, with the first courses wrapping a column base.

Plate 46 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Stone veneer laid up around a column base, corner units alternated course by course over the scratch coat.

Plate 47 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Column blocks stacked along the porch edge, paver walkway already laid in front.

Plate 48 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Stone column bases coursed up around the timber posts along the porch.

Plate 49 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Stone column bases built up across the front of the covered porch, picking up the grey stone on the house wall.

Plate 50 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Concrete step poured into site-built forms against the stone-faced porch wall.

Plate 51 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Stone-clad columns and the low porch wall taking shape, paver patio laid up to the steps.

Plate 52 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Dark stone treads capping the poured concrete steps down to the paver patio.

Plate 53 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Cut stone facing built up around the porch piers, with rough timber posts and horizontal wood slat privacy panels.

Plate 54 — Stonework · Georgian Bay

Dry-laid stone pier built up beside the wood slat privacy wall on the porch deck.

Plate 55 — Siding · Georgian Bay

Rear elevation in charcoal lap siding, with the white pergola and wood deck landing at the side entrance.

Plate 56 — Siding · Georgian Bay

Charcoal lap siding run tight to the white trim around the patio door and window.

Plate 57 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Dock stripped back to its timber cribbing, framing beams laid across the cut-off piles.

Plate 58 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

A new section of decking framed and boarded at the water's edge.

Plate 59 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Fresh decking laid across the ramp and landing where it meets the water.

Plate 60 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Fresh decking on the narrow finger dock running between two slips.

Plate 61 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

Stepped landing built into the end of the new dock decking.

Plate 62 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

A wide decked landing boarded out at the head of the channel.

Plate 63 — Restoration · Georgian Bay

The rebuilt dock follows the shoreline, with timber steps down to the gravel.

Plate 08 — Decks · Barrie

Built-in bench and privacy wall, with lantern posts at the step

Plate 10 — Decks · Barrie

Built-in bench and lit feature wall

Plate 14 — Railings · Barrie

Front porch rebuilt to code — poured concrete steps with chiselled faces

Plate 18 — Fences · Barrie

Horizontal slat screen with a bench cap

Plate 19 — Stonework · Barrie

Peeled log post-and-beam arbour set over an irregular flagstone walkway, with climbing vine trained up the posts and the path edged in stone against pea gravel.

Plate 21 — Decks · Barrie

Cascading corner steps onto natural flagstone

Plate 23 — Decks · Barrie

Mitred steps and a dark skirt, stone at grade

Plate 25 — Fences · Barrie

Privacy screen meeting the deck corner

Plate 27 — Decks · Barrie

Two-tier landing at the patio door

Plate 28 — Stonework · Barrie

Flagstone path winding through the shade garden, edged with fieldstone boulders and a gravel margin.

Plate 64 — Stonework · Barrie

Irregular flagstone patio with tight-fitted joints, edged in armour stone alongside a wood board fence.

Plate 65 — Other · Barrie

Peeled log arbour at the garden entry, two round posts carrying a heavy log header over the flagstone.

Plate 11 — Stonework · Collingwood

Hand-fit granite flagstone with tight swept joints, edged by a band of washed river stone against the gravel drive.

Plate 13 — Stonework · Collingwood

Granite flagstone walkway finished from under the porch out to the drive, joints swept tight and the outside edge bedded into gravel.

Plate 17 — Stonework · Collingwood

Granite flagstone walkway laid on compacted screenings, running out from the covered entry.

Plate 20 — Stonework · Collingwood

Finished granite flagstone walkway with a river rock border down one side.

Plate 22 — Stonework · Collingwood

Close fit between granite flagstones, each edge chiselled to follow the stone beside it and the joints packed with fine gravel.

Plate 26 — Stonework · Collingwood

River rock drainage border set tight against the finished flagstone edge.

Plate 29 — Stonework · Collingwood

Screed rails laid across the compacted base alongside the finished flagstone edge.

Plate 30 — Stonework · Collingwood

Steel screed rails set on the compacted base to run the bedding level with the laid stone.

Plate 31 — Stonework · Collingwood

Mixer and timber screed frame set up beside the stone, bedding mix spread for the next run.

Plate 32 — Stonework · Collingwood

Bedding mix screeded between timber rails, ready for the next course of flagstone.

Plate 33 — Stonework · Collingwood

Stones set out on the bedding gravel and sorted for fit before being laid into the field.

Plate 34 — Stonework · Collingwood

Granite flagstone going down over the compacted HPB base, with offcuts stacked to one side for the next run.

Plate 35 — Stonework · Collingwood

Granite flagstone laid out from the entry, with the next run of stone stacked ready on the grass.

Plate 36 — Stonework · Collingwood

Granite flagstone laid up to the wall of the house, the field fitted tight and bedding gravel still open along the edges.

Plate 37 — Stonework · Collingwood

Warm granite flagstone laid tight around the porch post, joints hand-fitted.

Plate 38 — Stonework · Collingwood

Granite faces and swept joints seen close up, the stone left with its natural cleft texture.