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Building Stone Walls: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-217 - Softcover

Vivian, John

 
9780882660745: Building Stone Walls: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-217
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0882660748 ISBN 13: 9780882660745
Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1976

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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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.

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Verlag
Storey Publishing, LLC
Erscheinungsdatum
1976
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0882660748
ISBN 13 
9780882660745
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
112
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