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DRY STONE WALLS
Posted: Mon 24 Feb, 2020 3:57 pm
by Brunel
New ones being constructed at the recently completed roadworks, Harrogate Road,Ring Road LS17
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Re: DRY STONE WALLS
Posted: Mon 24 Feb, 2020 4:23 pm
by warringtonrhino
It is not often that one of my old cartoons are applicable?
Re: DRY STONE WALLS
Posted: Sat 29 Feb, 2020 5:21 pm
by blackprince
Are these technically dry stone walls? It looks like a layer of mortar under the capping stones. Very nice anyway.
Re: DRY STONE WALLS
Posted: Sat 29 Feb, 2020 10:35 pm
by warringtonrhino
The mortar course is probably to make it more difficult for the stones to be taken.
Re: DRY STONE WALLS
Posted: Sun 07 May, 2023 11:35 am
by jihfadiuh
they are dry stone walls, the mortar is required for the top stones due to health and safety in public spaces. if they were to be built in a field the top stones dont need mortar
Re: DRY STONE WALLS
Posted: Mon 08 May, 2023 2:57 pm
by tilly
They look so smart the cost must be quite high compared to brick walls but they do match the property's in the back ground.Dry stone walls go back hundreds of years and a lot of them in the Yorkshire Dales go that far back if erected properly they require no maintenance, and except for ground movement last for many many years.
Re: DRY STONE WALLS
Posted: Tue 09 May, 2023 10:21 am
by warringtonrhino
warringtonrhino wrote: ↑Mon 24 Feb, 2020 4:23 pm
It is not often that one of my old cartoons are applicable?
I have just noticed - he is building Adrian's Wall!