TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part XIII
yep, but I have another set to do. I'm seriously thinking of building a wall over that orange foundation and then doing this stone on it..about 25' feet. problem is that once you do somethin new, the old stuff looks like crap...never ending
I like the dry stack look with no visible mortar in the joints. Guy that did the front, mortared the joints to match the original foundation. When I remodeled the basement , 35 years ago, I stripped one of the original foundation walls. I Did 20' feet of it in the family room. it had been plastered and painted over. I got it back to the original stone and cleaned out the mortar joints. This the "real old time stuff"..over 100 yrs old
yep, it's really popular now. My price on material was about $10/s.f. Don't know what labor would be for a mason to do it.Twenty years ago, I used to pay $7 a s.f for brick work, materials and labor. Works out to $1 a brick. I'll have to ask what the going rate is now.
yep, that was a very popular stone around here many years ago, Called West Mountain stone. It came from a local quarry