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Concrete Landscaping Projects For The Do-It-Yourselfer |
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| Construction of Freestanding and Barrier Walls Using the MaytRx® System |
Freestanding stone fence and barrier walls can be built with a solid face on both sides of the fence or wall. These freestanding projects can be built with MaytRx® split face or Antique MaytRx®. Building freestanding fences and walls with the MaytRx® system can be freestyle, no repeated pattern is required or suggested. Simply use an equal number of the A, B, X and Y stones.
The flexibility of the MaytRx system allows the wall to have the MaytRx® Cap stone built into the wall as a soldier and horizontally at random locations. Because the Cap stone is 11" front to back, a 3-D appearance is developed on both sides of a freestanding wall.
Unlike retaining walls that have only one face, freestanding projects have faces on both sides. This requires specific use of the "A" and "Y" stones when setting soldiers or horizontal capstones as shown in the drawings. This will give a solid wall appearance on both sides of the stone fence or barrier wall. |
| Footings |
| Freestanding projects can be built on a compacted aggregate footing or a poured concrete footing. It is imperative that the freestanding project be built plumb. The plumbness of any freestanding project should be checked as each layer is set. The drawings show an example of a freestanding project with freestyle placement of the MaytRx stones. Because the MaytRx "A", "B", "X", and "Y" stones are manufactured and sold in sets of four, any project will need to incorporate an equal number of each of these four MaytRx stones to use all stones purchased. The MaytRx Cap stone is a exception. The MaytRx Cap stone is manufactured and sold separately and therefore any MaytRx project may use as many or as few MaytRx capstones as the installer desires without concern for any ratio of usage. |
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| Caps |
| Freestanding projects can be capped with the MaytRx Cap stone. Because the Cap stone is one inch deeper than the other four stones, the cap layer, when centered, will have a 1/2 inch overhang on both sides of the wall. Freestanding MaytRx fence may be built between MaytRx 20" square columns with columns spaced at regular intervals and at corners. The cap layer can have other special design consideration such as the MaytRx castle wall. |
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| Shadow Box (Old English Walls) |
| A shadow box appearance can be developed in a MaytRx freestanding project to give additional natural stone appearance to a MaytRx project. In a random manner, individual MaytRx stones may be set forward or backward approximately 3/4" to develop the shadow box appearance. |
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| Corner Construction |
 MaytRx corners can be built as free standing walls (straight up) that have solid stone faces on both sides. A mitered MaytRx Cap stone will give a MaytRx Corner a finished appearance on both sides of the corner. Glue all capstones in place for a solid top of the wall.
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 The freestyle use of the five MaytRx stones provides a system that can allow installers to build projects and never repeat the same stone pattern. |
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