Took a day this weekend to put up a stone wall in our kitchen. My father helped me put together the cedar beams that frame it in. THANKS, PAT, FOR THE TABLE SAW!
Picked up the stone from a mason who had some leftover from a job. This stuff is normally pretty expensive per square foot, but I got it for a song. I dry-stacked it and adhered each stone to the wall with Power Grip adhesive from a caulk gun (no mortar needed). Yet, I still need to fill a few of the wider joints with mortar to hide the wall behind.
I suppose I always wanted a wall in my home that looked like an old mine shaft.
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September 25, 2008 at 7:33 pm |
LOOKS GREAT!
September 25, 2008 at 9:09 pm |
Nice Wall.
September 26, 2008 at 12:34 am |
…instead you have a wall in your home that calls to mind Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”.
September 30, 2008 at 12:46 pm |
“I hastened to make an end of my labor. I forced the last stone into its position ; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat !”
Ask him no questions, he’ll tell you no lies.