Pitched Face House Extension Peppermint Grove

Update to photos…

Bookleaf Random Limestone Cottesloe Update

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

Landscaping Maylands Update

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

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

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…