1. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: DRYSTONE BUILDERS OF TODAY |
2.1 Prior notification of construction work, planning permission 2.2 Insurance
3. NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS |
3.1 "Too many cooks spoil the broth" 3.2 The advantages of working in tandem
4.1 Volume of stone required 4.2 The Source of Stone 4.3 Putting the stones in order 4.4 Carrying the stones to the building site 4.5 Laying the stones in the work area 4.6 Shifting the stone on-site 4.7 Stone handling
5.1 Clearing the building-plot 5.2 Splitting the strata of rocky outcrops 5.3 Breaking up big blocks 5.4 Lifting half-buried stone 5.5 Digging stoney ground 5.6 Rough-hewing stone 5.7 Levelling up the stone facing 5.8 Wedging stone properly 5.9 Laying out the foundations 5.10 Making sure the wall has the same batter throughout 5.11 Putting the lintel and inner-lintel in place 5.12 Covering the extrados of the vault with earth
6.1 Raw or worked materials? 6.2 Rough-hewing 6.3 Levelling up the stone facing 6.4 Giving a chamfered edge to the stone facing of a corbelled vault
7. BUILDING THE WALLS AND FOUNDATIONS |
7.1 The ground site 7.2 Foundations 7.3 Reconstruction of a hut whose walls and foundations have collapsed 7.4 The pivot 7.5 Moveable stands 7.6 External scaffolding 7.7 Laying the "first stone"
8. RULES OF GOOD DRYSTONE MASONRY |
8.1 Laying the stones in alignment with their natural bedding |
8.2 Laying stones according to the form of their upper and lower surfaces 8.3 Giving the outer facing a batter 8.4 Laying stones in horizontal courses 8.5 Staggered joints 8.6 Laying stones as headers, or bands 8.7 Laying throughbands at regular intervals 8.8 Stabilizing stones in all six directions with wedges 8.9 Use of "grapeshot" to be avoided 8.10 Insulation with earth 8.11 Use of pinnings in the façing to be avoided
9.1 The entrance’s placing 9.2 A doorway 9.3 A doorless entrance 9.4 Roofing technique for the entrance
10. CONSTRUCTING THE ROOFING |
10.1 Floor 10.2 Pivot and slant-marking line 10.3 Ladder 10.4 Course of stone eaves plates (in cylindrical, conical huts) 10.5 Course of large blocks at the starting-point of the corbelling 10.6 Stones for the vaulting 10.7 The vault’s coping-stone or crown 10.8 Roof covering stones on the vault’s extrados 10.9 Stone cladding on the vault’s extrados
| 11. SPECIAL CASE: CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING ON A SQUARE
PLAN |
11.1 Four right-angles in the base part 11.2 A pyramid-shaped roof or a conical one with a flat-stone tiling? 11.3 The pyramid-shaped roof option 11.4 The conical stone-tiled roof option
| 12. FITTING OUT THE HUT’S INTERIOR |
12.1 Construction of a niche 12.2 Construction of a window aperture 12.3 Construction of a seat 12.4 Flooring 12.5 Construction
of a fireplace12.6 Putting in a coat hanger
| 13. SIGNING AND DATING THE CONSTRUCTION |
| 14. WHAT TO DO WITH THE NEW BUILDING? |
14.1 A ready-made use: toolshed, lumber room, storehouse 14.2 How to light up the interior
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