/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1446852
It isn't masonry. It is just facade, like those 1-brick thick walls on the new houses these days. It also looks aesthetically like shit. Well, there's also 2 kinds. Some people for some reason use a slipform to make an actually thick wall of stone because they evidently can't use a plumb or something. That still looks like shit, but at least it is a bit better structurally. The truly shitty stuff is the one where all the face stones are the only stones that exist in the wall, there's 1 face, and all the stones are laid horizontally. This latter version isn't structural and shouldn't be. Pic is the worst kind.

Now the worst part about slipform masonry, even with those thick walls, even if they have 2 faces, is that they are chop full of runs. Nothing is properly tied in any way. It is all a random jumble waiting for long cracks from top to bottom inside of 1-2 generations at best. Why? Because the faces are hidden behind the slipform when it is being built and unless you are using glass forms, or have a eidetic memory you more than likely will make tons of runs everywhere, even if you know what a run is and want to avoid them.