Complete Masonry Book

 by Sunset books.

• Choosing, building and maintaining masonry surfaces and structures.
• Step by step instructions for all essential masonry skills.
• Decorative concrete techniques.
• 192 Page Book.
• Many Photographs.
  
• Soft-cover Book, 8 1/4 x 10 3/4

Book Contents

Planning Outdoor Spaces

• Layouts that work
• Floors and paths
• Vertical elements
• Nice Touches
• Natural Stone
• Stone tile
• Ceramic tile
• Brick
• Concrete pavers
• Envisioning your design
• Drawing plans
• Rock garden basics
• Crevice plants
• Gathering the right tools
• Lifting and carrying techniques

Patios and Paths

• Simple flagstone patio
• Placing steppingstones
• Forming decorative steppingstones
• Molded concrete
• Laying out a patio
• Removing sod
• Excavating and laying gravel
• Drainage solutions
• Wood edging
• Invisible edging
• Timber edging
• Brick or concrete paver edging
• Poured concrete edging
• Paver on concrete edging
• Decorative edgings
• Cutting and handling concrete pavers bricks and stone
• Screeding for a patio with invisible or uneven edging
• Screeding for a patio with solid edging
• Paver patterns
• Setting pavers
• Curved path
• Large pavers with wide joints
• Installing loose materials
• Mixed material paths and patios
• Planning stairs
  
• Building stairs

Casting concrete

• Concrete basics
• Mixing concrete
• Pouring a concrete slab
• Decorative effects for new concrete
• Stamping concrete
• Acid staining
• Resurfacing concrete
• Setting flagstones on concrete
• Tiling over concrete
• Pebble mosaics
• Demolishing and reusing old concrete
• Pouring a concrete footing

Walls and Structures

• Retaining walls
• Working with mortar
• Brick garden walls
• A brick planter
• Stackable block walls
• Stuccoing a wall
• Facing a concrete or black wall
• Decorative block wall
• Building a stone raised bed
• Building a dry stone wall
• Mortared stone walls
• Building a counter with a build in barbecue
• Concrete countertop
• A carved birdbath or planter

Maintenance And Repair

• Repairs to concrete
• Cleaning and sealing
• Repointing
• Anchoring to masonary
• Replacing bricks and blocks
  

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