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Creating Stone Steps with Recycled Granite

The side of the home has been fenced in with a white cedar fence from Architectural Fence. This fence has been designed with attached sheds to create a bin for garbage, a stall for gardening equipment, and an area for a potting bench. Recycled granite from the Danvers State Hospital was used here to provide some steps. The granite was cut into lengths of four feet using wet saws equipped with a water attachment and diamond blade. The cut ends of the granite block are given a rough finish with a torch and chisel. The pea stone used for the walkway is a good color match with the fence. Pea stone is easy to maintain because water drains right through. Three steps were constructed using the granite blocks, all of differing widths, which creates a pyramid effect.

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Creating Stone Steps with Recycled Granite

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" OK and of course the rain is slowing down now and the side of the house has been outfitted with a wonderful. White cedar fence from architectural here in in the Boston area and what they've done is not just fenced but create a bin for garbage and an area for storage or garden tools and even this fantastic little potting bench did you having to do I have designed. It's it's just the perfect little thing. And Sarah the homeowner has already put some of the things that I guess she's trying to save through winter. But let's talk about the materials nick cause again here you managed to find some use for recycled. Granite. "

" Again the same recycled granite from the Denver state hospital and we cut it into lengths of about four feet -- on the cutting prices can't be easy. Well we use are the wet saws with a water attachment and a diamond blade. And it cuts through fairly easy it's a little loud and sometimes little bit messy but. It cuts through the granite and we dress up the sawn ends with a with a torch to give it a thermal rough finish that's usually that's straight and then. The material that you've chosen here is do what size business. Three eighths inch piece -- so it's a piece stone."

" Kirby stone it's traditional the decomposition. The color is nice it goes with the fence. And it's very easy to maintain and you never get a water problem in this cause it drains."

" It drains right through exactly and then what I what I love is the transition you made over here where at this there's three steps but. They're different differing widths we press these stepped. A little shorter as we got towards the top sort of a pyramid effect with the -- walks beautiful let's take a look around back."

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