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Knocking down the old piggery means we have a good deal of our own local stone with which to make some stone slips. And very many of the original local bricks. Why slips? Well, the ICF which we have substituted for the stone is 320mm wide. So adding a stone 'jacket' would mean walls, half filled with concrete and overall more than half a meter thick. We aren't building an Observation Post for an artillery range. Here's what the piggery looked like I can buy stone slips. But. They don't convince SWMBO. Might we be able to make our own from our own 'stock'? I've done a good deal of research. I think the key problems I need to solve are Cutting the right quality of stone such that it doesn't delaminate (by cutting across-grain, rather than with the grain) Cutting the stones without wasting too much Finding the correct tool to cut them Using the waste stone appropriately I've looked at this tool to cut them. But it strikes me that the 'bed' on which the stone is cut is at least as important as the cutting tool. And it's expensive, but I bet I can hire one. I've spent hours on YooChube researching how to cut them for myself. Not a brilliant resource, but there are some nuggets of information. And didn't you @Construction Channel, do a video review of a chop saw that might do the job? Visiting Italy (Pisa) Debbie and I visited the marble mines nearby. They used diamond encrusted wire to saw the marble. Might there not be some low-cost DIY equivalent?