Product Description

A dry-stack stonewall is a project that almost anyone can build, and it will last well over a century if built correctly. Like most projects, knowing all of the steps involved is critical to ensure a safe and solid job. This book provides thorough, step-by-step procedures for three projects using stones of various sizes form the smallest all the way up to boulders, with a focus on a safe work environment. Learn a system for planning a project, and proceed through all the steps required to completion. A gallery of wall images will inspire you to start stacking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #680040 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Thoroughly 'user friendly' and promoting the essential necessity of having a safe work environment
Stone walls are a mainstay of landscaping for homes and gardens. Stone walls come in diverse forms of construction with "dry-stack' referring to erecting walls of stone without the use of mortar. In "Building Dry-Stack Stone Walls", Rob Gallagher, Sean Malone and Joe Piazza draw upon their many years of experience and expertise to providing homeowners with illustrated, step-by-step instructions on building dry-stack stone walls that will be stable, attractive, and solid. Three projects using different kinds of stones help to provide examples and inspirations for building walls from inception to completion. Thoroughly 'user friendly' and promoting the essential necessity of having a safe work environment, as well as featuring a gallery of wall images in full color, "Building Dry-Stack Stone Walls" is the ideal 'how to' instruction guide and manual for the novice stone wall builder and a highly recommended addition to personal and community library reference collections.

Building a wall, you gotta get this book
If you are going to build a dry stone wall you must read this book. Not only does this book tell you step by step, it also has the pictures to go with it. This book teaches you from the planning stage to putting the last stone on the wall. This book also has a great gallery of pictures for you to get some ideas. You should also take a look a the first and second how to projects. The first project is for a simple garden and the second is for a, kick your feet up and say "I did this" patio. To sum it all up, if you are going to a stone wall project or even thinking of one, get this book.