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Dry Stone Waller Employment Contract UK

Define skilled construction and repair of mortar-free walls, including careful stone reuse, stable bonding, historic evidence and boundary controls.

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This contract includes Dismantle, sort and retain reusable stone under the repair brief. Prepare foundations and build faces, hearting and batter to approved sections. Select and place bonding, through and coping stones for stability. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers
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When to use this contract

Deliver stable dry-stone walls with sound bonding, careful reuse and selection of stone, and finished lines, features and boundaries to the brief.

Workplace context: Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering outdoor and remote work. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering stone handling. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering heritage and boundary care. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering material source and reuse. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering site rules.

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Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The waller may select placement within the approved style and section. Boundary relocation, historic-feature removal, imported stone substitution and foundation change require client or conservation approval. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the new-build, repair, boundary or heritage work covered
  • the sites, travel, remote access and weather arrangements
  • the walling style, stone and workmanship requirements
  • the lifting aids, tools, PPE and welfare provided
  • the survey, photograph and retained-material records required
  • the authority for boundary, foundation and stone-source changes

Day-to-day operating brief

What Dry Stone Waller work looks like in practice

A dry stone waller selects and places stone without mortar to create stable faces, hearting, through-stones and coping suited to local material and ground. The contract should cover manual handling, heritage or landscape requirements and approval before altering existing walls or boundaries.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Dismantle, sort and retain reusable stone under the repair brief.
  • Prepare foundations and build faces, hearting and batter to approved sections.
  • Select and place bonding, through and coping stones for stability.
  • Protect boundary markers, landscape features and historic evidence.
  • Manage manual handling, access and materials at remote outdoor locations.
  • Record discoveries, source changes, progress and completed wall condition.

A realistic working scenario

Dismantling reveals a historic feature and foundation conditions differ from the repair brief. The waller records the construction and stones, protects reusable material and seeks conservation or client direction before rebuilding.

Outputs to agree

  • stable dry-stone walls with sound bonding
  • careful reuse and selection of stone
  • finished lines, features and boundaries to the brief

Records and evidence

  • Location, survey and repair brief.
  • Stone source and retained material.
  • Foundation or heritage discovery.
  • Progress photograph and completion note.
  • Work records.
  • Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The waller may select placement within the approved style and section. Boundary relocation, historic-feature removal, imported stone substitution and foundation change require client or conservation approval.
  • May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

  • Dismantle, sort and retain reusable stone under the repair brief.
  • Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

Tools and systems

  • Site records.
  • Project systems.
  • Risk assessment records.

Workplace context

  • Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.

Training and certification

  • Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

  • outdoor and remote work
  • stone handling
  • heritage and boundary care
  • material source and reuse

Information the employer should prepare

  • the new-build, repair, boundary or heritage work covered
  • the sites, travel, remote access and weather arrangements
  • the walling style, stone and workmanship requirements
  • the lifting aids, tools, PPE and welfare provided
  • the survey, photograph and retained-material records required
  • the authority for boundary, foundation and stone-source changes

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Work setting

Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.

Primary duties

  • Dismantle, sort and retain reusable stone under the repair brief.
  • Prepare foundations and build faces, hearting and batter to approved sections.
  • Select and place bonding, through and coping stones for stability.
  • Protect boundary markers, landscape features and historic evidence.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Site records.
  • Project systems.
  • Risk assessment records.
  • Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Governance focus

HSE context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering outdoor and remote work. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering stone handling. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering heritage and boundary care.

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Dry Stone Waller duties

Deliver stable dry-stone walls with sound bonding, careful reuse and selection of stone, and finished lines, features and boundaries to the brief.

Dismantle, sort and retain reusable stone under the repair brief. Prepare foundations and build faces, hearting and batter to approved sections. Select and place bonding, through and coping stones for stability. Protect boundary markers, landscape features and historic evidence. Manage manual handling, access and materials at remote outdoor locations.

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The waller may select placement within the approved style and section. Boundary relocation, historic-feature removal, imported stone substitution and foundation change require client or conservation approval.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering outdoor and remote work.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering stone handling.

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Frequently asked questions

Can stone from another source be mixed into the wall?

Only after the relevant appearance, performance and client or conservation approval.

What if a historic feature is uncovered?

Protect and record it and obtain direction before removal or reconstruction changes its evidence.

Can a Dry Stone Waller relocate an existing boundary line?

No. The employee should follow surveyed or instructed limits and refer uncertainty to the client or project authority before dismantling or rebuilding.

Who approves a change to the wall foundation?

Changed ground, width, drainage or foundation treatment should be recorded and agreed through the responsible design, conservation or client route.

How should reusable stone be managed during dismantling?

Sort and protect suitable face, through, coping and hearting material in a way that preserves provenance and supports the approved rebuilding sequence.

May imported stone be mixed into a repair?

Only after the required appearance, geology, durability and heritage or client approval, with its source and placement recorded where necessary.

What if wildlife is discovered within a wall?

Pause the affected work, protect the area and use the project's ecological or site route before disturbing a nest, shelter or protected species.

Can remote-site working be included?

Yes. Define travel, vehicles, lone-working checks, communications, weather stoppage, welfare and arrangements for moving stone to inaccessible locations.

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