Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'archtecture'.
Found 2 results
-
Hello, We've had some very special cast stone plinth blocks installed in a sandy 'bath' colour. Our groundworker - a bricklayer by trade - has installed them with a 10mm joint using yellow mortar (despite us having a convo on site re the joints being as thin as possible, ie 3mm and in a colour-matched mortar). Given that we wanted to achieve something that looks seamless, I think it looks awful! - see photos at bottom. I'm going to ask him to repoint with a colour-matched mortar - sadly it'll be too late to achieve a thinner joint now. Has anyone worked with cast stone blocks who could offer some advice about how to point them neatly and what a good mortar to use is? Thanks!
-
I've just had an advertising flyer from a company I've bought electronic components from for years, and for once it looks quite interesting. It's bit expensive, but looks to be re-usable, so might well be cost-effective if refining a design using scale models. It might well have a resale value, too, within the self-build community. I built a total of six 1:50 scale models of our house, at a cost of around £50 in materials (foam board, liteply, cutting board, glue etc), so maybe the cost of these kits isn't all that high, given the possibility to re-use the components. I'm not endorsing this at all, as I've only had a quick look at both the details from the supplier and the manufacturer's website, but it looks like an interesting system: http://arckit.com/
