From: "Kelly" To: , "Norbert Senf" Cc: Subject: Re: Informations on facing stone Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:03:57 -0400 Hi Norbert. Wrapped up another successful heating season down here. It was a very mild winter, so we ended up heating entirely with wood. I was thinking about ordering some extra pieces of glass for our firebox doors in case our growing family decides to break one. How much might this cost? Yannick, Our house is located in the center of what was once a farmed field. The land is on a hillside that is not too fertile so they gave it up, but not after generating a few good piles of what we call generically call "fieldstone" during tilling. This rock is actually a pretty plain sandstone that had some preferential planes of cleavage. As you can see in the picture, we used this to lay the stone flat with it's narrow edge protruding and deeply raked the mortar joints. FWIW, my wife and I did this facing work in something like 1400-1500 hours of work. I don't know if you've settled on working with Norbert or not yet but let me just put in an endorsement for him from us. My wife and I are structural engineers. She's worked in heavy construction as a contractor, I do design work and we did about 80% of the construction work on our own home. So, we've worked with many, many people in construction and would have to say that Norbert's one of the most talented, professional and pleasant such persons we've come across. To boot, he's got an excellent product that seems to be very well thought out. We love our heater! I'd be glad to answer any questions you have. Brian Kelly