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how to build a dry stone wall

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  • #122
    ponddigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭ponddigger


    hi ,hand cut stone arch.jack 7574_145.jpg


  • #123
    shugy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭shugy


    The amount of slating towards the OP in this thread is staggering!! Yes most of the walls he's built in these pics aren't exactly what a traditional Irish wall should look like but sure, what is these days! The market dictates what type of wall gets built and that's just the way it is. You can thank our non national friends for this and the boomtime builders. IMO, the op walls are as good as any I have seen.

    On another note, anyone wanting a stone wall built, choose carefully on who to do it because once its up, it can be hard earned money wasted. I know of one company in the west who do cheap work, is getting most the commercial and private work in the west and their work is awful! And not an Irish man on site which is a tragedy!! Big stones just thrown on top of stone, big joints running up and across the wall all for 40-50euro a sq MTR, I had them out pricing work for me, looked at their web site which funnily enough has okish work but when I went and looked at some with my own eye, I wouldn't have them anywhere near my walls. Stonework is an art form and I'd rather pay 75-100 euro a sq mtr for something that looks good rather than 40-50 for a wall that looks terrible.

    As for that house the op did in tipp sandstone, that is one beautiful looking workmanship and is easy worth the 75-100 euro a sq meter.


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