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Help with flat fieldstone wall - Thanks in advance!
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Posted by cfodps (My Page) on Tue, Sep 4, 07 at 11:17
| Hi all - First post. I need assistance with building a dry look flat fieldstone wall. Here are some specifics:
* Total length 90 ft.
* I live in CT so frost/freeze is of concern
* I had a concrete footing poured the entire length at 42" below ground. The footing is 18" wide. We then poured a 14" wide wall on top of the footing to ground level.
* I would like to build a dry look flat fieldstone (palletized) on top of the cement wall. A knee-wall appromixately 18" high. I'm thinking to mortar each stone on the inside leaving the face to resemble a dry wall.
* What are the pros and cons of mortaring the inside only versys simply laying the stones dry? It's a perimeter wall around a soon to be laid block patio. Both sides of the wall will be finished look and neither side will have any pressure against (ie., blocks or soil).
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RE: Help with flat fieldstone wall - Thanks in advance!
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| One more question! When laying the stone does one begin at corners and build up to finish height and then proceed horizontally across the length, or do you lay rows of stone across the entire length and layer up to finish height? |
RE: Help with flat fieldstone wall - Thanks in advance!
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| Your best bet is to get a good book from the library, David Reed comes to mind. We built a beautiful 65 foot long flat fieldstone wall. Dry laid. Much research uncovered that if you mortar it, you will have many more problems with frost heave separating that mortar and cause the heaving to mess up your nice neat wall. Dry laid means the whole thing can shift if need be. People will argue both sides. I talked to local people who had mortared and after several years, they regretted it. |
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