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1. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: DRYSTONE BUILDERS OF TODAY |
2.1 Prior notification of construction work, planning permission
2.2 Insurance
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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
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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"
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8. RULES OF GOOD DRYSTONE MASONRY |
8.1 Laying the
stones in alignment with their natural bedding |
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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
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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
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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
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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 fireplace
12.6 Putting in a coat hanger
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13. SIGNING AND DATING THE CONSTRUCTION |
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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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