Just back from Deering, NH. The site of the Round House that is in it's 6th year of construction. Some folks like to build a house in a couple months, and some like to take a decade. Hey, it's a nice house.
Pulled the forms for the concrete cap on the stone base. Will trowel a color finish coat to smooth out all the irregularities.
I used plastic to see what kind of finish it would give me, and to allow form to release easy. It gave a very smooth finish but was not consistent because of the form ties that penetrated the plastic and created voids and inconsistent planes. Otherwise it worked fine.
If I did it again I might have made a thicker front edge of 3-4" instead of 2".
The cap really brings everything together. Creates a nice transition from stone to clay plaster above and completes the overall form of the stone wall.
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