Stone Wall Detail Types Masonry Walls Building

Still, the rock itself had been laid up well enough to stand through generations of rain and storm. However, stone building is a highly individual skill, so once you have the basics down, you simply have to put in time working with the stone to develop your own style.

Stone Masonry Details

The backfill behind retaining walls will not be as solid as the soil which has not been touched. In the coursed square rubble masonry, the work is carried out in courses of varying depth. In the uncoursed square rubble masonry, the different sizes of stones having straight edges and sides are arranged on face in several irregular patterns. Thus the face joints are seen running in an irregular fashion in all directions. A strip, about 25mm wide and made by means of chisel is provided around the perimeter of the rough dressed face of each stone.

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15. Retaining walls in stone masonry – Stone Masonry Wall Detail



First of all, then, let’s talk about how to keep that stone from denting you up too much as it moves in either direction. With proper outer wear, you can avoid the scratches and dents—and ignore the occasional rolling stone—that otherwise can mess up both your hide and your concentration.

In this type of masonry stones having straight bed and sides are used. This type of rubble masonry, the stones are hammer dressed. This type of masonry, stone used are flints or cobbles. This type of ashlar masonry, a strip about 25mm wide and made by means of chisel is provided around the perimeter of every stone as in case of rough-tooled ashlar masonry.

This is due to the rounding mentioned above.


The opening has to be cleaned and then tie-rods (1.50m) are installed on both sides of the wall at intervals of 1.00m in height.

All metal parts are protected from corrosion with paint and then coated so that the connections are not visible. The water is placed in a can and 2/3 of the cement is added. The mixture needs four minutes in a mixer with a frequency of at least 1000 rpm. Most of the times the grout is installed using high pressure. Grouting requires the involvement or supervision of experienced staff that can make decisions as to which grout mix to be used and the location of the holes.

The loading and hauling is what’ll really cost you. I know several local fences so well made, though of potentially unstable—almost globular—fieldstone, that they have lasted with no maintenance for 200 years. The more permanent you want your wall, the more of it you must bury forever underground. So get yourself a cutting spade to slice out sod and a long-handled shovel to dig a trench. Today, only the stone walls remain, sad to say. A mason’s level is sometimes helpful in setting individual stones, particularly at the top course and when leveling out stone tables, benches, and such wall furniture as gates and steps.

If you slope the courses going over a rise, in time the wall will sag downhill. With the wall laid out and the footing trench dug, the real challenge begins. The wall won’t care which way you choose, provided the bigger rocks are laid properly. All the selecting and adjusting is done mentally beforehand. and anyone who can watch a mason at work and resist the urge to pitch in for a while—at least long enough to learn the facts—is not to be believed in any event.

Properly lapped, the rocks in a dry wall will shift with the seasons but not fall out too quickly. Presumably this helps stabilize the wall by reducing lengthwise, along-wall shift. I feel that a giant in a wall invites fall-out the same as excessive run, but experienced masons don’t always agree. I like to have the rocks in all the courses angling down slightly toward the center of the wall: that is, to have rocks in each face slope in and down toward the midline a bit.

For a really permanent end, extend your footing out in a wedge in front of the wall as far as you can. Since the wear of the seasons will have the wall heaving at the corner from both lengths, it should be stronger than a simple end.

Then make two ends and hang a wooden door from hinges mortared into the cracks in the rock. Still, the wall-raising principles are the same; just increase your dimensions. A doorway is two ends with a heavy timber or long, squared rock for a lintel. You frame windows and doors, set plates, and fasten roofing the same as in concrete-block construction (and there are plenty of how-to books around on that).

Stone Masonry Wall Construction

in this lecture i show you how stone masonry wall was to be constructed at the site…..how we level the side of the wall…..how we …