Dry Stack Retaining Wall With Bench

09 Mar Dry Stack Retaining Wall With Bench

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Nancy designed a seating area that incorporated a six foot long bench into the retaining wall we were building.  The bluestone slab we used for the seating surface was right at the lifting capacity of my mighty-mini Bobcat 323 excavator.  It’s very satisfying to make Nancy’s drawings come to life, and especially so when I use the simple materials of quarried rock and natural stone.

 

Can you see the small vertical white line at the base of the wall?  That’s some marking paint that was supposed to fade with exposure to sunlight.  It makes the center of where Nancy wanted the bench to go.  I must have mixed-up the paint cans, that mark will need to be scrubbed off.  Whoops!  If you look closely at the pictures in an earlier blog post you’ll see the same mark.  Can you find it?

Thanks for reading!

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Pennsylvania Bluestone Bench in retaining wall, North Seattle, 2014

3 Comments
  • D. Lawrence
    Posted at 03:43h, 12 March

    Fantastic. I’ve noticed how other contractors show only the finished product of photographs taken by professional photographers. In some cases I wonder if they are even depicting their own projects, and not a photo of another tradesman’s work.

    With your company, you feature progress photos taken with a camera phone, so I know it’s genuinely your own work.

  • Kat Chmore
    Posted at 13:41h, 20 January

    A glorious place to rest and survey the garden! Nice work, Fasoldt Gardens!

  • Raul Jin
    Posted at 02:03h, 07 April

    It’s great of you to blog about your perspective. There’s some awesome content here and I enjoy reading your stuff.