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Demolishing old stonework, pouring a concrete footing.

4/10/2011

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Last week we started a project in Blowing Rock for High Country Renovators.  The owners of the house wanted to expand a patio by tearing down two walls and rebuilding them to provide access to the patio from the front of the house.
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We began by removing the existing stonework one piece at a time, being careful to separate the stone from the rubble and save them for when we rebuild the walls.
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One the demolition was complete, we excavated for footings and built a form for the new section of patio, ensuring we placed lots of steel to reinforce the concrete.
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Then my concrete truck arrived, we poured the 2 1/2 yards, and now we're ready for stone!
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concrete Barrie link
7/26/2012 09:58:09 pm

This is a great web site. Good sparkling user interface and very informative blogs. I will be coming back in a bit, thanks for the great article. I have found it enormously useful.

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Jeff Carbine link
1/26/2022 07:43:59 pm

My favorite part of this article is we started by removing the previous masonry one piece at a time, carefully separating the stone from the rubble and saving it for when the walls were rebuilt. Someone recently told me about this and it is different from what I understand. Thanks for helping me understand stonework.

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