Basic Masonry

by Sunset Magazines & Books and Sunset

Book Overview

If you know absolutely not the first thing about masonry, here's an excellent basic starter book from the editors of Sunset Magazine that includes clear explanations of tools, materials, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0376015829
• ISBN13: 9780376015822
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Sunset Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

A super book for idiots wanting to do this stuff!

Seriously, most of us would not care to get into the basics of brick laying, and I cannot recall what moved me at the time, but I decided to want to do special accents for my rose garden. After a visit to the local garden supply, I found I could not achieve the effect I wanted with the premade articles, so I got a bee in my bonnet to do it myself. And guess what, with this book you can do just about anything.It discusses the tools needs, the different mediums of brick, stone and concrete and then gives you easy methods to create projects to suit you taste. The was put out long before the first idiot's guide or dummies books, but it's along those lines. Even if you have no idea how to make concrete, the different patterns to lay brick or the techniques to make the projects of you vision become you, you can do it with this book.Seriously, it teaches everything. So if you have the itch to create your own patio bricks or stepping stones, or just lay ones already made, or want to make that brick grill...well grab this book and in no time flat you are working like an expert!Diagrams are easy to follow and they show every detail you need to be a great part-time mason.Now if they can just find the TIME for me!

Great masonry book for the homeowner.

This is a good book for the homeowner who wants to know how to build a garden wall, pave an area, or lay cast concrete. Covers tool selection and uses, building techniques with brick, stone, blocks, adobe, and concrete. Excellent step-by-step instructions and illustrations show you how. Learn tricks of the trade, even how to make you own paving blocks. Also covers maintaining and reparing masonry.