Building Stone Walls
Autor John Vivianen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 1979
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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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0882660748
Pagini: 112
Ilustrații: line drawings and photographs, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Storey Publishing LLC
Locul publicării:United States
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Textul de pe ultima copertă
A beautiful stone wall ... yours with just a rock pile, a few tools and this book!
Building Stone Walls tells you all you need to know to build your own sturdy walls. Carefully detailed, clear drawings show the techniques to follow -- and how to avoid problems.
Learn here about:
- wall foundations
- basic "one-over-two" method
- chinking "in" or "out"
- height-to-width formula
- using lower-quality stone
- building retaining walls
- building in gates, fences, and stiles
- moving stone, boulders.
Excellent example photos show good and poor walls, while the author's lively text tells you how to build, step by step. Slopes, drainage problems, using rubble -- these challenges and more are thoroughly covered.