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Tips for Laying a Better Walkway Tips for Laying a Better Walkway Online Membership Required

Careful base prep is what keeps pavers in place by Mike Guertin

Smaller, better mortar hoe
Smaller, better mortar hoeOnline Membership Required

Short handle mortar hoe by John Carroll

Working with Manufactured Stone
Working with Manufactured StoneOnline Membership Required

Fake rocks can look pretty good if you know what you’re doing by Brendan Mostecki

Dress Up a Block Wall with a Rock Wall
Dress Up a Block Wall with a Rock WallOnline Membership Required

Rather than hiding a poured-concrete or block foundation with landscape plantings, show it off with stone veneer by Cody Macfie

Stone Veneering
Video: Stone Veneering

You can make a plain-looking wall into a great-looking rock wall by veneering it with fieldstone by Cody Macfie

Site-made grout saw
Tip: Site-made grout saw

by Ethan B. Eikrtsen

Building Dry Stone Walls
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Building Dry Stone WallsOnline Membership Required

A systematic approach saves time and turns beginners into artists by Christopher Kachur

Pointing StoneworkOnline Membership Required

A pastry bag speeds this tedious job and gets the work done cleanly and efficiently by Christopher Kachur

Laying up Stone VeneerOnline Membership Required

A masonry facade is an economical way to give wood-frame walls the look of solid stone by Steven Snyder

Stone Veneer on Concrete BlockOnline Membership Required

The right mortar and care in laying stone are the keys to a beautiful job by M. Scott Watkins

Q & A: Damp masonry

by Stephen Kennedy

Guidelines for Laying Stone WallsOnline Membership Required

Master the basics and gravity will do the rest by Joseph Kenlan

Repairing Old StoneworkOnline Membership Required

With the materials already delivered and paid for, why not use them? by Stephen Kennedy

From Boulders to Building BlocksOnline Membership Required

How a traditional stonemason quarries and dresses sandstone by Charles Miller

The Structural Stone WallOnline Membership Required

Save your mortar for pointing, bed your stones in concrete, and remember there's no substitute for gravity by Stephen Kennedy

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