Natural Stone Wall Construction

Two tiered retaining wall in the backyard.

Natural stone wall construction.

Planting flowers and small brushes can soften the look of the stones. Stone enterprises in east bolton a landscape and construction company specialising in natural stone. The face stones visible edges should rest only on stone not mortar so scrape away any mortar that squeezes out. This prevents mortar from running down the face of the wall.

Vertical rock faces of rounded fieldstone on the outside with a mud mortar rubble stone mix on the. The key to building a wall using mortar is when you apply the mortar it needs to go evenly onto the run of stones that are set. Dry stack walls also drain well allowing water to pass through the wall itself. Stone owns and operates c r.

Hello and welcome this is carl the landscape guy. Redi rock international flickr cc by 2 0. There are so many different types of natural stones from which you can build decorative walls. Its leaky roof rested on ten foot high walls that were originally constructed as a sandwich.

Dry fit each stone first to see that the vertical joints are staggered and the outside faces just touch the line. Remove the stone spread a trowelful of mortar on the wall and tamp the stone into it with a mallet. The easiest way to build a stone retaining wall is to use the dry stack method that requires no mortar between stones and does not need a concrete footing like mortared walls do.