Product Description

Includes equipment requirements, instructions for creating wall foundations, coping with drainage problems, and hints for incorporating gates, fences, and stiles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146682 in Books
• Published on: 1975-12-06
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .37" h x 6.06" w x 9.06" l, .38 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

From Amazon.com
Well, here it is: Basic tools, basic techniques, illustrations and photographs, and all the planning and safety instructions you will need to build a variety of stone walls. This is a book that can help you beautify your back yard with the grace and texture of natural stone, or launch you on a career of reconstructing the Inca Empire or building a second Great Wall of China if you get carried away. Up to you...

From the Back Cover
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. If stone is your material, then this is the book for you.

About the Author
Author John Vivian is a veteran practitioner of many country crafts. He has written The Manual of Practical Homesteading and Storey's Building Stone Walls. John lives in Rutland, Vermont.