Skills
Through out the Build a Rumford Fireplace and Decretive Stone Work course students will learn to employ the following skills as they are learned in this course
- ID of tools and their uses in stone/block work
- Definition of proper footing and foundations for supporting masonry structures
- Forms and placing concrete
- Code Compliance
- Mixing concrete
- Types, Uses and mixing mortar
- Site preparation
- Cutting Block
- Set block out in Ruff
- Techniques for minimal waste
- Lay and Properly place brick and block units
- Plumb and build corners or working Leeds
- Build a fire box
- Performance and heat transfer ratios
- Pour a reinforced concrete throat section, fire box and enter smoke chamber
- Place damper in throat opening to ready smoke chamber
- Build a solid concrete smoke chamber
- Build a clay lined chimney
- Splitting and Grading stone
- Trimming and dressing stone
- Id good stone from bad / what is useable
- Different styles and bond for best structural strength
- Laying styles for use in coursed and random stonework
- Squaring up
- Cutting stone for reference points
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