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Wed, Dec 26, 12 at 11:52
| I have worked with various recipes of Hypertufa for a number of small projects and they all turned out well. Now, I am looking at a muuuuuuucchhh bigger project this comming Spring. I am planning on making several standing stones. They will have cores made of foam blocks 'glued' together with Great Stuff. The blocks originally measured 12"x12"x18" and the 'stones' cores now range from 3 to 7 foot tall. I was thinking about Hypertufa to cover the cores because I really like how natural it looks when fully cured. The spring and fall tend to be wet, the summer hot and dry and the winters can be brutally cold. I don't want to have the shells crack and deteriorate rapidly. Are there any recommendations on the recipe to use for this... or a recommedation to use something else? |
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- Posted by oldgraymare 4 WI (My Page) on Sun, Jan 13, 13 at 19:35
| I did one about 5 yrs ago. Its about 3 ft tall(behind flowers in pic) Im on the Wi/Mn border and winters are cold here too. I have gotten a few cracks but I just re-hypertufa them in the spring! I used a styrofoam and a wood frame then I covered the whole thing with chicken wire before I put the hypertufa on. |
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| Nice. :) How thick did you make the shell? |
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- Posted by oldgraymare 4 WI (My Page) on Mon, Jan 14, 13 at 19:57
| If I remember right, its about 2 or 2 1/2 inches thick. |
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