Stone house.

[Nawty]

Anyone know the cheapest and easiest way to build stone houses ??

Natural riverstone, not the cut flat one sided ones where you whack them on the outside like a tile.

Only for the exterior, dont want stone on the interior for gathering dust and varmits.

I would presume concrete structure and bricks of whichever type chosen for the walls and then just use the stones on the exterior cemented to the wall.

[Thetyim]

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Seen a house in Phitsanulok made like that.
looks very nice like a Cornish cottage

[Nawty]

lol....dont want a cornish cottage.

Looked at a block of land yesterday, 7 to 8 rai on a river near Khao Yai. Lots of stone around, so perhaps a nice cheap 'free' building material.

[Thetyim]

Stone House: Guide to Self-Building with Slipforms - Photo Galleries

[gjbkk]

If you intend to use natural river stone then I would suggest that you have a retaining wall and build up the stone wall with regular wall ties.

Raise the corners and then the fill.




Stone Construction, with and without mortar: build stone walls, houses, barns fireplaces, entryways, bridges, seats, steps, walls, waterfalls, or a stone barbecue.

[koogook]

Why dont you want a cornish cottage im going for a devon manor!!!!!!!

[Jet Gorgon]

Rock corbels in the bathroom are always nice.

[Smithson]

Do you mean the round style river stones? These are very common in Nakhon Nayok and used in lots of houses. I think the method is like what you describe, with the concrete structure. Although I think (but not sure) sometimes they are used in place of bricks and then rendered on the inside to leave a smooth finish.

They are often used for the lower part of the walls, while the upper part is just the regular brick and render. This may be due to the weight of the rocks (bloody heavy).

If you go to NN and drive up to the dam you'll see quite a few places done like this. Below is a pic of a half finished place where it looks like they've run out of money and stopped work. Is this the type of stone you meant?

[Nawty]

Thats it.....the land we just bought is near Nakhon Nayok and the river has plenty of them around.

Second pic not showing.

[benlovesnuk]

What do they use as mortar just common old C'crete or something else?

They certainly have a nice colour to them!!!!!!

[Nawty]

This is the area, not view from the property...wish it was....next time




This is the 'natural' swimming pool just completed the other day...



we have an 80m frontage to the river...the pool gives us about 100m for laps and approx 40/50 of that fronting our place....swimming against the current also.....good workout after a glut at Oishi !!!

[Nawty]

This is the kind of stone walls I want to be constructed....brought some rocks home yesterday to clean up and see if they produce this....

[Nawty]

Kind of nice what you can get away with here, although this can work for and against you.

Certainly nowhere back home in Oz would you be allowed to just go ahead and dam up your river, cut off the flow for a day or so while it fills and fill it with boulders and such.

But of course it can bite you in the arse one day.