Dry Stone Walling Association Initial Certificate – as I explained last time the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain’s craft certification scheme has been designed as a progressive scheme so that candidates can move through the different levels as their skills increase with experience. The entry level qualification is the Initial Certificate sometimes referred…
The Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain launched its Craftsman Certification Scheme way back in the 1980’s making it the first organisation to offer formal qualifications in dry stone walling. Since then the scheme has flourished and developed in to what is still the most respected and coveted craft certification scheme available in dry…
The great debate in the dry stone walling world is always whether to course or not and there are two distinct schools of thought. On one hand you have the coursed wallers, predominantly based in the Pennines where the local sandstone lends itself to level bedded, regular coursed work and then you have the random…
It is surprising how many times one sees steps that have not been constructed correctly; that is the risers have been built and then the tread is merely planted on top of them. This is not only bad practice but is aesthetically unattractive and gives the impression of inferior workmanship.
