Two Over One https://dolcebanda.com/ 2026-08-08T09:00:00Z Three metres of field wall in four days, and where the time wenthttps://dolcebanda.com/posts/three-metres-field-wall-four-days/2026-08-08T09:00:00ZStrip, sort, footings, faces, hearting, throughs and copes: a four-day rebuild timed hour by hour, and ten tonnes through my hands. Hearting: the part nobody sees and the reason walls fallhttps://dolcebanda.com/posts/hearting-why-walls-fall/2026-04-19T09:00:00ZThe fallen stretch had soil for a core. What proper hearting is, how it is placed, and the two face faults that were also to blame. A lime-mortar raised bed: 1 to 2.5 and a week under hessianhttps://dolcebanda.com/posts/lime-mortar-raised-bed-curing/2025-09-27T09:00:00ZA first mortared job in natural hydraulic lime: the 1 to 2.5 mix, the batch that slumped, knocking up, and seven days under wet sacking. Three garden steps: riser height, tread depth and a frosty night’s worryhttps://dolcebanda.com/posts/three-garden-steps-riser-tread/2025-05-03T09:00:00ZRisers of 150 and treads of 350, 80-kilogram tread stones, a sand bed on clay, and the step that knocked after the first frost. Dressing stone with a hammer and chisel, and a thumbhttps://dolcebanda.com/posts/dressing-stone-hammer-chisel/2024-11-16T09:00:00ZA walling hammer, a pitching chisel, bedding planes in sandstone, practising on hearting stone, and the thumbnail I lost in October. Reading the fallen wall before touching ithttps://dolcebanda.com/posts/reading-fallen-wall-before-touching/2024-06-15T09:00:00ZBefore lifting a stone: measuring the standing half, finding the throughs in the grass, and the sycamore that explained the worst collapse.