Dry Stone Walling Bursary Training Portfolio
16.07.18 - 12.07.19
P. Jeyacheya
Workbook Two
Workbook Two consists of five questions. Together the questions cover a range of topics that are useful to a dry stone waller. Questions 1 & 2 cover the classification of rocks and how to calcuate the volumes & tonnage needed for building a dry stone wall. Questions 3 & 4 cover the structure of a dry stone wall and the potential faults that could occur for a number of reasons. The final question looks at how a dry stone wall provides habitat for a variety of organisms.
The answers are mostly highlights and are not intended to give a full understanding of all the topics covered. Instead they serve as an introduction that should be build on over time and with experience.
Workbook 2: Structure
Q3:
Give 4 examples of common faults in the structure of a dry stone wall:
a)
Poorly constructed foundations: top line of foundation stones not level; selected stones not large enough to sit at least a third into the wall; stones being predominently traced. This results in a week structure.
b)
Building with room for movement: face stones not touching all other neighbouring stones; excessive use of front pinning; loose packing.
c)
Irregular batter causing:
waviness
bulges
overhangs
d)
Bad wall structure due to poor use of throughs, coverbands and copestones: through stones not 'tied' well into wall by neighbouring stones and strong packing; copestones not crossing the full width of coverbands or touching outmost edge of walling stones on both faces; exposed pinning of copestones resulting in copes moving or falling off the wall.
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Our Services
Projects covered include:
- Free estimates & quotations
- Traditional dry stone walling
- Retaining Walls
- Cheek ends / wall heads
- Garden walls
- Field Walls
- Gap Repairs
- New walls with new or reclaimed stone
- Boundary walls
- Ornamental walls feature walls
- Dry stone walls with mortared coping stones
- Mortared walls
Areas We Cover
Lancashire boroughs of
- Rossendale
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Hyndburn
- Burnley
- Pendle
- and further afield ...
Services also extended to our nearest neighbours in:
- Todmorden
- Hebden Bridge
- Sowerby Bridge
- Littleborough
- ...and everywhere within that geographical circle
