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Want to build a stone house? It's easier than you might think! Slipform Stone Masonry brings to life the nuts-and-bolts of the slipforming process featured in Tom's book Living Homes.
Slipforming is the process of using forms on both sides of the wall as a guide for the stonework. The forms are filled with stone and concrete, then "slipped" up the walls to form the subsequent levels. Slipforming makes stone work easy even for the novice.
(about 110 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on March 26, 2005 in Construction::Housebuilding and Construction::Landscaping.
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I was not impressed with the content or delivery of this video. It was disjointed and the camera angles were unhelpful. I'm sure the author has good information to impart but it didn't come through on screen.
You get some good information from this video - the problem is that it is the only video I know of on slip form construction, but this guy may mean well, but the presentation is painful to watch. The first half has lots of zoom in zoom out zoom in zoom out, not only really bad technique, it gives you a headache and detracts from the presentation. Then the sound track with a really bad guitar player, with a way out of tune guitar just dinking around playing some chords is very distracting, this is fine for your family video, then it plays again at the end.
I feel that this video should never have been released, it is not professional and I would think it a good buy at the dollar store, then he enunciates every little bit of each word as if he is on drugs obviously reading from a script. The video is very strange when all these things are considered, on the other hand if you can suffer the amateur video, then you will see a garage being slip formed.
There is no question in my mind that he should taken his footage to a professional and gotten someone that can speak properly and re edit this video.
If you need to see the process of slip forming done, I can recommend this to you,
We are going to build a home ourself and investigated different methods that a non-professional could do. We heard about the slipform stone method and before investing in books about it, thought we'd rent the video. This was a very nice introduction to slipform stone masonry. Mr. Elpel says in the video that this is just a brief overview and is to accompany his book.
I've read many websites with other people just like us building their own home using this method. They all seem successful.
In this video he is building a work shop and the video doesn't go into all the details of building a home. But just like many books I've read that give an over view of the process, more reading will need to be done. Building a home is a big task and don't expect to build one after watching one video.
If you are interested in building your own home, you aren't a professional and have a lot of rocks in your area; this may be the method for you and this video would be good to watch for an introduction to this method.
