Stone House Construction nearing completion

[Greg Mitchell]

For those of you who are interested, I have updated my stone house thread on the ASRA forum.

Ten years, nearly done and dusted!

Pics are bigger on the ASRA forum.

Mitch.

[Fl90]

That's a good looking place. A lot to be proud of.

Phil

[StanFoster]

Mitch- I just love stone construction. It is so permanent. I can only imagine how many hours you have in those nice walls. Well done....


Stan

[choppergabor]

That is absolutely gorgeous Mitch. Wow. I bet the view is equally beautiful from the inside out. If you get a chance would you snap a few pics for us to see what you see from the inside? Beautiful work my friend absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[Greg Mitchell]

Thankyou Gents.

10 years has gone by to quick, though I'm glad this project is nearing completion. The wife has a whole list for me to work through yet.

Couple of pics from the build process and after we first moved in.

We are on 1 acre and one street back from the West Tamar River. All the rock was picked by hand from local area and surrounds. Volcanic rock...diorite, dolorite.

I still have living mosses and lichens on the stone work indoors, I spray with a water mister.

First two pics were taken this morning (out door front aspect.).

[Greg Mitchell]

Last pic.

The little model in the previous group of pics, was the design concept model for the project.

Cheers Fellas.

Mitch

[Timchick]

Very nice.

[choppergabor]

Wow Mitch! Superb! Lots of work went into this castle of yours. Absolutely awesome. Thanks for sharing with us.

[C. Beaty]

I’m impressed, Mitch. I assume you did all the stone masonry yourself with family members helping.

But don’t tell me you raised those roof timbers by yourself.

[Redbaron]

sweet, thanks for sharing mitch, that is some talent, thanks for making me feel inferior! lol

[Greg Mitchell]

Cheers Gabor, we love it.

Geez Red, dont feel bad. Anyone with a pile of rock and some patience for jigsaw puzzles and you're off and running.

Thanks Tim.

Cheers CB. You are right in your assumption, CB all the stone work is mine. Some help from family collecting local stone.

Yeah we used a crane to lift the trussess.

Phil, the wife and I are real proud of what we have done here.

Lots and lots of hours Stan, I shudder to think how many tons of stone we gathered and I laid into walls.

I went through an old hard drive and turns out I was building the Blue Emperor Butterfly as we were hoisting the trussess.

Some pics.

Mitch.

[StanFoster]

Mitch- I noticed your excellent contemporary styled stairway. I love the parallel tensioned cable balustrade. Are the steps cut slabs of stone or cast concrete? Simply beautiful work and you really have an eye for this. I also love those 1/4 circle trusses and how you made them. My eye always goes to anything curved. Circles give anything life to it. You have displayed a very high level of skill that had to have a high level of perseverance to see your project through. By all means write a book. I could just see Taunton Press coming out with your book with a title like, Building a stone house down under. Please post more of your beautiful work Mitch, especially that stairway. Stan

[Heron]

Mitch
You are one refined Neanderthal!
Keepa is looking good!
What about them rug rats? So cute . . .
Love you man!
Heron

[Russ Hobbs]

Mitch
Now I have to burn my old shack down. I agree with Stan that is a real eye catcher and accomplishment, it would make a good read. So how much did you have to pay that pretty girl to hang on your arm like that

[C. Beaty]

Those roof trusses and box beams show an unusual degree of engineering talent.

My guess is that they were prefabs from a specialist firm.