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Stone Veneering

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

by Cody Macfie

Length: 9:06
Produced By: Gary Junken

The techniques are the same for block, poured concrete, or even a wood-frame wall, as Cody Macfie, Brevard, North Carolina, stonemason and freelance writer, demonstrates in this video.

For more on fieldstone veneering, read Cody’s article, Dress Up a Block Wall with a Rock Wall.

 

Video by: Gary Junken

From Fine Homebuilding 177, pp. 86-90
March 1, 2006

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