John Vivian

Building Stone Walls (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rustic and charming or stately and proud, a well-built stone wall can add personality and beauty to your property. John Vivian's lively approach and step-by-step instructions encourage you to transform a pile of rocks into an enduring landscape feature with gates, retaining walls, or stiles to suit your needs. Whatever unique challenges come with your site poor drainage, sloping ground, or low-quality rubble material Vivian offers innovative designs and reproducible methods to help you build a beautiful, long-lasting wall.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612123721
• Artikelnr.: 42027036

Autorenporträt

John Vivian is a veteran practitioner of many country crafts. He is the author of Building Stone Walls and The Manual of Practical Homesteading. He lives in Vermont.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Kinds of Stone
Equipment
Laying Out the Wall
Above-Ground Building
Ends & Corners
Using Not-So-Good Stone
Drainage
Special Walls
Wall Furniture
Quarrying
Mortar
Maintenance
Some Other Uses of Stone
The Story of a Wall