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This attractive garden wall was built using split face, flat bedded facing sandstone sourced from the local area.
The wall was back mortared to a block retainer. This Dry face appearnce allows the stone to flourish with an authentic natural finish.
The beautiful wall features both an outer and inner curve as well as a set of Dove Tail steps adding to the stylised overall design.
Pointing is the act of filling mortar between Masonry joints to protect the stonework from water ingress.
Using traditional Lime based mortars allows old walls to ‘breath’. This is especially important in pre 19th century stone buildings which have no cavity to speak of, traditionally built stone buildings consist of two stone skins with rubble and lime packing in the centre.
Lime based mortars allow moister and water vapour to freely escape from the stonework, and helps to prevent internal damp issues. Most often older houses with on-going damp issues find the route cause to be either damaged or degraded external pointing or the use of hard Portland cement based mixes.
Cement based mortars are widely regarded as being decremental to the health of old stone buildings as they work to ‘seal’ the stonework, trapping moister within. Which in tern contributes to freeze and thaw damage and damp. They are also hard in nature which over time will cause the stone to degrade, this is especially true for softer stone such as Sandstone buildings.
Pennine Stonecraft specialise in the removal of old damaged mortar pointing and reapplication of new Lime pointing, sympathetic to the look of the original building.
Here is an interesting mortared garden wall built using reclaimed sandstone.
The wall is split into two sections, the first section is capped off with flat Indian sandstone flags and also features timber fencing built into the centre of the wall. This allows for an open-aspect which doesn’t obstruct the views from the decked section of the garden.
The fencing has been been painted Grey to match with the timber decking.
The second section of wall has been capped off using hand-dressed half-moon coping stones.
This beautiful coursed garden wall is built using flat-bedded reclaimed sandstone.
The wall was back-mortared, allowing for a Dry face appearance. The hand-dressed coping stone were mortared on for added security.
The wall features a right angle corner which neatly terminates at a timber gate post.
This long wall new build was using newly quarried flat bedded Sandstone from the local area.
The two neatly finished Dry Stone walls was made complete with the installation of two solid Pillars capped off with traditional heavy reclaimed Cap Stones.
One wall also featured a curve leading to the Pillar.
The wall was finished off using hand dressed coping stones which when mortared in place help to complete the finished piece.
Here is a delightful new build garden wall built from newly quarried sand stone sourced locally.
Now here is an interesting project.
Here is an internal dry faced feature wall built in a living room.
the wall was built using split face, flat bedded sandstone sourced from the local area.
The fully coursed construction was back mortared and tied in using screw in wall ties which were fixed to the existing masonry.
Back mortaring means there is no pointed mortar beds on show on the face of the wall, giving it a stylised traditional dry face appearance.
Here is a lovely little job built in Yarm, North Yorkshire. This small wall was built to fill an unwanted gap in the customers hedge. The wall was built using new Sandstone from a local quarry.
This large Dry Stone Garden perimeter wall was build using locally sourced reclaimed natural Sandstone.
The wall of about 60m was around 2m high on the outer face, designed to protect the garden from nosy neighbours (the Cows).
The wall also sports naturally dressed coping stones which help to maintain an authentic finish, sympathetic to the heritage of the local area.
Dry Stone as endured as a method of land boundary for hundreds of years. Dry stone walls are a feature of the British Countryside, they help to divide our land as well as providing much needed shelter for live stock.
These environmentally friendly structures create an eco system all of there own and help to support hundreds of different species of plants and animals. Pennine Stonecraft has built, restored & maintained many hundreds of meters of historic Field Dykes across the North Pennines.
The majority of field dykes across the North Pennines were built using either Lime Stone, Sand Stone or Whin, usually all mixed together. They generally consist of two or three layers of Through stones and upright Copings.
This 65m long walling project involved restoring an old dilapidated Dry Stone Wall that had fallen into disrepair. The old wall was stripped back to bare earth and the new wall was built using the recovered stone.
The wall was built in the traditional Northumberland style of Dry Stone Wall which is in-keeping with the local area.
The height and flow of the wall was built to work in tandem with the undulating curvature of the existing ground level.
A restoration project which consisted of rebuilding two wall ends.
The walls were built using the original stone and tied neatly into the existing wall.
Building a wall end is a skill in itself, a poorly built wall end won’t last long as they can fall away from the wall if they are not properly tied back.
the coping stones were mortared on for added security.