Pitched Face House Extension Peppermint Grove

edwardslimestone — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:59:26 +0000

Update to photos…

Bookleaf Random Limestone Cottesloe Update

edwardslimestone — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:12:00 +0000

Couple of new photos of the external walls at the cottesloe job….

Landscaping Maylands Update

edwardslimestone — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:57:32 +0000

The new limestone walls and water feature is in place and the decking is going down. Looking great, unfortunately as this is part of a complex we couldn’t get rid of the existing fences so we will be breaking the new walls and old fences up with some plants. The owner has already had her first party as the back is almost finished

Bookleaf Random Limestone

edwardslimestone — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:22:00 +0000

Andy is currently laying external bookleaf limestone to a new luxury build in torrens street, Cottesloe. The process is quite tedious as there are many small formats involced in the pattern. Here’s an idea on the block sizes…

500 x 155 x 100mm
500 x 100 x 100mm
500 x 45 x 100mm
1000 x 100 x 100mm
1000 x 155 x 100mm
500 x 20 x 100mm

Builder: Macon Construction
Architect: Sharp & Van Rynn

Pitched Faced Limestone Walls – Update

edwardslimestone — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:04:12 +0000

Well the two storey extension is going well. We took a short sabbatical while the chippies did their thing. The upstairs floor has been finished and the framework for the second storey has been complete so it is time to continue building the exterior skin in limestone.

This particular job has internal brick for the first floor and timber framing on the second. It is slow work as each block needs to be pitched (a combination of chiseling and axing to get the required finished) and then cut into various sizes. Pitching is very different to beveling as the finish is more like the block being split in two.

When the house was originally built in 1910′s the stone was quarred in big bolders and sent to site and all resizing happened on site. Nowadays blocks are processed at the quarry and sent out at specific sizes making it a great challenge to make the existings sizes in the original building. Anyhow here’s a couple of updated pics…

Pitched Faced Limestone

edwardslimestone — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:14:03 +0000

Just a quick update on the pitched faced limestone house extension. I took a couple of pics as we have gone over the top of the arches so you can see how we’ve accomplished the return to coursing.

Landscaping – Maylands Perth WA

edwardslimestone — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:00:07 +0000

We have been contracted by Newglen Constructions to build all the hard landscaping elements to an existing home in Maylands. This involved a complete demolition of existing paving, plant and walls to make way for new limestone walls and decking. The front garden recieved a limestone retaining wall in preparation for a sunken seated garden. A limestone border was run out along the border of the property. The existing wood fenced was removed and replaced by a stunning randome limestone wall with a knap faced water feature.

More to come…

www.edwardslimestone.com.au/currentwork.html

Limestone Arches

edwardslimestone — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:30:33 +0000

Just a quick update and some new pics of the arches. All arches have been complete and now the process of continuing the building past the second storey commences.

Check out the details over the arches as pieces are fitted to bring the whole project back to coursing.

For the full set of photos check out…

http://s844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/edwardslimestone/Jobs/Spadaccini%20Peppy%20Grove/

or visit the website

www.edwardslimestone.com.au

Arches | Edwards Limestone Perth Western Australia

edwardslimestone — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:15:12 +0000

Just hit the first floor on our pitched faced limestone home addition. Time to install arches. The arches were firstly cut to match the existing curvature and a small cross section cut out of the top of each piece. Each piece was then laid onto a curved jig previously installed into the wall. A 6mm rod was then bent into place on top of the limestone arch with enough left to rest on top of the wall. Next the blocks were filled with concrete to set the arch as one piece. Check out the photos and I’ll bring you more soon…

Pitched-faced Limestone House

edwardslimestone — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:19:33 +0000

Getting to 1st floor height. About to put in 1st floor arches which involves cutting a section out each arch piece and running a rod and concrete through the limestone and resting onto the existing structure.

Setup for arches

Also we are toothing into the existing structure. This involves cutting out existing pieces of the original house and inserting new stone.