Outdoor kitchen

Sunday July 11th, 2010We are building a woodfired brick and stone bake oven, with granite countertops and a connecting grill. We build a block base on a concrete footing, that we pour on styrofoam.  We pour an insulating light weight slab to mount our refractory tiles.  We’ll install a damper and then smoke shelf and chimney.  We have [...]

Emily’s patio

Monday July 5th, 2010We built this patio for Emily and Tom in Wayne with maine fieldstone that we cut and fit.  We dug out the topsoil and replaced it with crushed rock, landscape fabric, stone dust. We compacted this and carefully graded it to drain away from the house.        We get some interesting patterns by making tight [...]

Pocasset Shores

Sunday July 4th, 2010We  built stairs and retaining wall down to a new entry to this house in Wayne.  First we move the rough boulder retaining wall down 3 feet to get out of the drive way line. Then we unloaded the rough steps and set them in a crushed rock base.  These are rustic steps that we [...]