Whether you are restoring an historic building or designing a new one, Lambs can assist. We relish large, complex projects, but are equally happy advising you on a replacement cill, an arch or a flight of stone steps for your garden.
Once we have received your enquiry our specialist team will contact you regarding your project. Following an intial discussion and our formal quotation has been accepted by you, our technical team will arrange a site visit, if required
Following a site visit and survey, the detailed notes are then passed to our CAD designer who will then issue formal drawings for approval.
Once the drawings are approved, then manufacture begins.
To make sure we understand your exact requirements, we visit your property and survey the necessary details from your building. Our technical specialists will then issue the details to our CAD designer with a brief report. Colour and finished samples will be provided at the time of the site visit.
We provide precise working drawings suitable for use by architects, engineers, planning and conservation officers, building conservationists, builders, developers and homeowners. Whether its gauged arches, bespoke special bricks or masonry stone, all are designed with the most up-to-date CAD packages by our own designer.
Where complex elevation detailing is involved, we often provide 3D camera projection drawings. This enables you to better visualise the finished product.
On completion of the CAD drawings, they will be sent to you for final approval before manufacture commences. Depending on your order requirement, full scale size drawings are provided for your assistance.
To ensure quality and the authentic characteristics of our traditional materials, most of our products are made by hand at our brickworks or in the stone masonry workshops at Philpots quarry. Our brick handmakers along with our brick and stonemasons have a wealth of experience and knowledge of their trade.
We regularly match bricks and stones for extensions and restoration work, as well as for new builds that need to blend in with existing buildings. Initially you can send us a sample and photographs, although we prefer to visit you on site to see the materials in their environment.
Because we have kilns with varying temperatures, we sort the fired bricks into colour groups that, used alone or blended, will match many buildings. We always provide a sample first, so that you can be confident they will be a match.
For stone masonry, existing stone textures can be recreated by our masons.
Our brick and stonemasons are talented craftsmen capable of creating exquisite detailing in brick or stone. Our brick handmakers along with our brick and stonemasons have a wealth of experience and knowledge of their trade, and for some, the craft goes back three generations.
Where appropriate we can also use technology to engrave precise patterns or lettering into stone. This is suitable for name or date stones.
We have extended the care that goes into making our products to our delivery service. All of our products are precisely packaged and clearly labelled for those installing them, and our drivers are skilled in handling the trays of intricate mouldings we manufacture.
We are able to export materials worldwide through our specialist logistics partner.
At Lambs we appreciate the importance of understanding the products you specify for your projects and the need to learn more. We offer CPD's (Continuing Professional Development) at our showroom, or at your office, whatever is more convenient to you.
Over the past few years we have delivered specific product presentations to architects and contractors throughout the UK.
We are happy to tailor the lecture to your needs, alternatively, we are can offer a variety of topics from traditional and preformed gauged arches, brick manufacturing to stone masonry work.
To find out more details regarding our CPD, or our availability, please email marketing@lambsbricks.com
