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forgeblast
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The stone is anywhere from 1/4 '' to 3/4'' I have mostly been saving the 1/2'' pieces. Its all sandstone, silt, or mud stone. We have some larger cologamerant pieces of stone in our area but not near us. We are in the bluestone region, a lot of quarries around us.
I talked to some wall builders, and they pour footing and then mortor the stone in place. Its kind of like building a box of stone and filling the inside with the rock you have cut off and is no good. then you put a capstone on it. I will have to try to get a pic of this one house near us, has 10' tall stacked stone(no mortar) bluestone wall, its amazing.
I have my fieldstone shed covered up for the winter otherwise i would post some pictures of it.
I started with digging a foundation 8x8 the foundation is 2' across and 3' deep, sloped to daylight on the one side, with the other sides sloping to that side. Then i put in drain pipe and 2b stone. packed it down as hard as i could. then put in tarpaper and rebar. I poured the cement in and built on that. Its called a rubble foundation frank l. wright used it in a lot of his big buildings.
The inside of the the foundation is still dirt, i will dig it out and put in a paverstone or brick surface. The walls are just fieldstone that i have cut and mortared in place. They are 12 inches thick. I am 4' up on the one side with a window in place and 2 1/2 feet up on the others. I figured while im cutting and using stone for this i might as well put some aside for the house.
What worries me is that i saw some articles on how people have messed up putting the cultured stone on their houses and caused more water problems. I was also thinking about the holes for the angle iron, but then i wondered about using stainless steel fastners, and stainless angle iron?
I watch rock solid all the time. Its a great diy show.
I talked to some wall builders, and they pour footing and then mortor the stone in place. Its kind of like building a box of stone and filling the inside with the rock you have cut off and is no good. then you put a capstone on it. I will have to try to get a pic of this one house near us, has 10' tall stacked stone(no mortar) bluestone wall, its amazing.
I have my fieldstone shed covered up for the winter otherwise i would post some pictures of it.
I started with digging a foundation 8x8 the foundation is 2' across and 3' deep, sloped to daylight on the one side, with the other sides sloping to that side. Then i put in drain pipe and 2b stone. packed it down as hard as i could. then put in tarpaper and rebar. I poured the cement in and built on that. Its called a rubble foundation frank l. wright used it in a lot of his big buildings.
The inside of the the foundation is still dirt, i will dig it out and put in a paverstone or brick surface. The walls are just fieldstone that i have cut and mortared in place. They are 12 inches thick. I am 4' up on the one side with a window in place and 2 1/2 feet up on the others. I figured while im cutting and using stone for this i might as well put some aside for the house.
What worries me is that i saw some articles on how people have messed up putting the cultured stone on their houses and caused more water problems. I was also thinking about the holes for the angle iron, but then i wondered about using stainless steel fastners, and stainless angle iron?
I watch rock solid all the time. Its a great diy show.