[eastern1]

We do them a little differently. This way they should last til the block falls apart.

[Ston Wurks]

If you're going to design in the round seating you might as well design and build it to last.

This is for an area between new apartments at a university, A gathering place for the students. I stopped by another time and was told it had become a popular spot.

[Stonehenge]

That's beautiful! Do you get a lot of residential clients with limited budgets looking for this?

[eastern1]

Originally Posted by Ston Wurks

If you're going to design in the round seating you might as well design and build it to last.

All I see there is a mortared wall and concrete slab. Up here that mortared wall wouldn't last 10 years before crumbling apart. Then it costs twice as much to break it out and discard.

[4seasons]

eastern1
Stoneworks is zone 5 at least I thought.
He's only 30min. south of me, so that's same zone as you.
If I ever did a stonehenge wall it would be built on concrete--- probably 8" thick.

[eastern1]

Concrete is a hard sell in our area, (mostly clay) it typically looks great for a very short period of time. I mean really, how do you make repairs to a concrete walk or bench and make it look original again?

[Ston Wurks]

This is in Zone 5, and we expect it to last a long time, it is in a university setting. The brick and mortar walls and buildings across the street are circa 1910.

10 years, sounds like a footing problem, or a mortar issue, it's only as good as the materials.

[Ston Wurks]

Stonehenge: in the last 2 years we have done several brick and or stone seating areas where the clients have specifically asked to not have that "concrete wall stuff".

These are not mid-level jobs, all $75,000 and up.

[eastern1]

Originally Posted by Ston Wurks

10 years, sounds like a footing problem, or a mortar issue, it's only as good as the materials.

And as good as the ground its set on. I agree though in a commercial application I also wouldn't spec a wall using pl. I think for most residential applications a stone wall pl'd together is more than enough. At least its flexible and does have some give to it unlike concrete.

[fakie99]

what does building something "ugly" at the customer's request have to do with being qualified?! there are a lot of pink keystone retaining walls out there that have lasted many, many years. ugly to me, beautiful to the owner, but constructed to last which is really the only important thing.

i think you missed autophils point.

[Stonehenge]

That's what I figured - there may be a handful of those kinds of projects in any given year in our market. Hard to build a business on that.

It's beautiful stuff, just that we'd be sitting on our hands if that's the only thing we did.

Originally Posted by Ston Wurks

Stonehenge: in the last 2 years we have done several brick and or stone seating areas where the clients have specifically asked to not have that "concrete wall stuff".

These are not mid-level jobs, all $75,000 and up.