Welch Masonry

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Featured Project:

Stone furniture series-- a stone bench created of natural edge stone. Quarrying techniques were used to split the bench top without disturbing the natural worn edges. The legs are made of the same type of stone, a granite schist, found in Newfane, Vermont. Inspired by the whisper a breeze makes as it glides up the hillside, the bench has a crisp line on the bottom giving a nice shadow and is supported with one slender leg giving the illusion that one is floating when sitting on the bench

News:

Welch Masonry has been awarded the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center south wall restoration. This is a Town of Brattleboro owned building and therefor a public bid process. The project is to rebuild the parapet and repoint the wall using a traditional lime mortar.

The project is expected to take three months.

15 years of exploring the confluence of form & function through the medium of masonry.

Historic Lime Mortar Restoration

Let’s take a look at our latest job: restoration of the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. Here we are using traditional historic lime mortar. This type of mortar has no Portland cement in it and is meant to “breathe” moisture. In this video we are removing the pointing mortar with hammer and chisel. The pointing mortar has cement like properties that don’t allow the water to escape the wall and have effectively blown the wall apart because of the moisture rich environment.