Building Dry Stone Walls Part 2 - Questions Answered - Adding Capping, Choosing Rocks and more

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In this video we look at more tips for building stone walls, including adding capping for dry stone walls, drainage, natural rock selection, making your own rocks for difficult corners as well a compressive strength and the use of screenings.
We cover using a mix of masonry material in stone walls including bricks, terracotta, odd rocks and where needed concrete.
All of this is part of the design process as well as construction.
For Building Stone Walls Part 1 See
• How To Build A Natural...
Key Moments
00:00 Introduction
00:28 Making Capping for stone walls.
01:13 Setting up Formwork for capping
02:32 Removing formwork and washing the capping for appearance.
03:17 Footings for walls where needed.
04:26 Drainage where needed.
05:14 Making your own rocks for difficult corners
05:54 Placement of BEST ROCKS
08:00 Using other Masonry material
09:34 Compressive Strength.

[@rossmcleod7983]

Any questions you may have, happy to oblige! 😊

[@Loogiemistress]

Beautiful work!

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks for watching and have a great 2024

[@BookofNick]

Possibly the most beautiful retaining wall on RUclips. Would love to see a video walkthrough just showing the entire wall. I haven't found anyone building a "rubble" wall in modern times. Why people go to landscape stores and pay thousands of dollars to buy thousands of stones that all look exactly the same is beyond me!
Question - I am in a climate that has hard freezes - would this method work for me, or would the expansion of the clay mortar when frozen and damage the wall face? If pure clay is too risky, perhaps a mix of claw, sand and straw, to make more of a cob would reduce this risk? I am assuming you are not in a freezing zone. Thank you.

[@user-pw7rr2bd6q]

Nice 👍

[@johnnyAGardening]

Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching and have a great 2024

[@shellyjene2066]

Beautiful and creative....

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks for that, stay tuned for a look at terraced garden ideas.......@@shellyjene2066

[@BookofNick]

Do you start the first course below grade? How deep?