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Ryedale Building Services

Over the last few weeks my studio has been completely rebuilt. I used a small business called Ryedale Building Services and am absolutely delighted with the results.

I began by inviting Chris to look at the planned work. He took plenty of notes and asked a lot of questions before making very helpful suggestions. He let me have a very detailed quotation a few days later and throughout the whole project he has been great at keeping me completely up to date and informed. As usual in a project like this I made a few alterations and additions as I went along and Chris gave me detailed costs each time, so that I was always fully aware of the implications of even quite small additions.

Most important for me I think is that the standard of work is very high and Chris pays a great deal of attention to detail. I love the result. I now have a beautiful spacious studio, insulated, ventilated and with absolutely loads of work surfaces and storage. It really exceeds my expectations and dreams and I would be happy to recommend Ryedale Building Services and to use them again.

Thank you Chris for all the care and skill that went into my project.

The electrician has still to finish the final fix and check all the electrics and I have a decorator booked for late February. I also have a lot of stuff to sort out including the stack in the middle of the room, but here are the photographs as it looks today.

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Building work begins

The building work has started in my studio. The plan is to create a beautiful new teaching space from what was two separate rooms and it will allow me to develop my ideas for new classes and also, very excitingly, to invite other teachers to run special classes here.

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This is how it looked first thing this morning. The first week will be really messy as Chris dismantles the dividing wall but it is great to see my ideas progressing.

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In the meantime I have set up a temporary workbench in the house so that I can still get on with some projects.

Starting to clear out

I have started the big clear out ready for the builder to begin work in my studio tomorrow.

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This corner of the room has always been used to stack ‘stuff’ out of the way and was hidden behind a sheet. The plan is that this corner will house the equipment for lamp working glass and also my hearth for soldering and torch work. I am really excited about the reorganisation as it will really open up the space and bring what were wasted areas into use.

There is still quite a lot to move but the clear out is well underway. Today a friend has collected boxes of dark room equipment that I haven’t used for around 20 years. Her partner will now be able to set up his own darkroom and it is great that it will be used and enjoyed again. I have also sorted out a lot of real junk (why did we keep this stuff for so long?) A trip to the tip is planned for later in the week.