6. Take special care at corners and ends to make sure seams never line up. Use larger stones at corners. 7. Keep a selection of larger stones to use as the top layer, or “capstones” of the wall.

A talk on the ancient art of dry stack stone walls will be... www.stonecraftsman.com This class on Saturday is a little spendy ($90, including lunch), but I've always wanted to build a stone wall ...

Make sure the retaining wall blocks are dry before applying the adhesive. Overhang the capstones about 1 to 1-1/2 in. Joe and Jake use a scrap 2x4 as a guide. Tall walls need engineering ...

Photo/Tim CarterThese rock retaining walls will last for generations because they were installed correctly. Q. I want to build a rock retaining wall, but have no clue where to start. What do I ...

Dry Stack Walls: A Disappearing Piece of American History - 2002-03-05 October 30, 2009 11:13 AM update October 30, 2009 11:14 AM Share ...

Garden retaining walls should, it seems, be made out of stone. By its very nature, stone is at ease in the garden; stone walls have a strength and soft irregularity that embrace and guide a garden ...

In this project, you’ll learn how to build a stone culvert with dry-stacked walls around the intake end of one of these pipes. The 4-foot-diameter (1.2-m) culvert shown in the photo above allows ...

Around here, Colonial Gray dry stack wall stone is commonly used and runs between $200 and $300 per pallet (A pallet weighs in at around 1½ tons and holds between 25 and 27 cubic feet).