Balintore Castle Restoration Project

A newly discovered pleasure is the auction room. It is a happy hunting ground for Victorian furniture and fittings for Balintore Castle. Pri...

A friend called Alasdair from my home town of Prestwick recently visited me at Balintore Castle. He was the boy across the road from my gran...

Further repair work on the box gutter at Balintore Castle necessitated building this scaffolding. The section of guttering in question is a...

Sometimes, you just have to kick-back and do things not because you should but because you can.What one can so with an unused ridge roll for...

Depending on one's current turn of fortune, "God is in the small things" or "the devil is in the detail". Fortunatel...

Dry rot has an insidious quality. One of the drawing room beams looked OK from above, but after clearing away the surrounding rubble, it tu...

It may not be major structural work, but my builder's recent reconditioning, repainting and re-glazing of the windows in the Great Tower...