Building Dry Stone Walls Part 2 - Questions Answered - Adding Capping, Choosing Rocks and more
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In this video we look at more tips for building stone walls, including adding capping for dry stone walls, drainage, natural rock selection, making your own rocks for difficult corners as well a compressive strength and the use of screenings.
We cover using a mix of masonry material in stone walls including bricks, terracotta, odd rocks and where needed concrete.
All of this is part of the design process as well as construction.
For Building Stone Walls Part 1 See
• How To Build A Natural Dry Stone Wall or R...
Key Moments
00:00 Introduction
00:28 Making Capping for stone walls.
01:13 Setting up Formwork for capping
02:32 Removing formwork and washing the capping for appearance.
03:17 Footings for walls where needed.
04:26 Drainage where needed.
05:14 Making your own rocks for difficult corners
05:54 Placement of BEST ROCKS
08:00 Using other Masonry material
09:34 Compressive Strength.