Honey, the dog fell in the moat again!

[GMan]

But who are you goign to get to dig the moat and where will you get teh crocodiles from???

A mere technicality.

[Southern Breeze]

How many and what size Crocs do you need? As a landscape designer I can get anything. Crocs? No problem.

More info: http://www.crocodilian.com/crocfaq/faq-2.html

[UmAnOnion]

How many and what size Crocs do you need? As a landscape designer I can get anything. Crocs? No problem.

More info: http://www.crocodilian.com/crocfaq/faq-2.html

if any of those crocs need feeding i have a couple of exes that will be all too happy to assist...

[Graham]

Thanks for the link, I've always fancied living in a castle, I love the idea. I saw some great castles in Scotland that inspired me.

I'm not mad about the stone they've used in the examples, but it's a case of what's available I guess.

We have a modern-built castle an hour from here, but it's in a bad location and they whitewashed it, which doesn't look too good.

[Andrew Breecher]

Those walls don't look very thick. When I was a stonemason in France we built walls twice that thick, and with undressed stone. We worked the traditional way, with lime mortar, and building the scaffolding into the wall as we went up. While I never worked on any castles, I did work on a house that was built in around 1200 A.D. I'd love to build my own house out of stone some day, but I'm definitely not at that point yet in my life - I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up (I'm 30 now).

Andrew.

[Iolaus]

Those walls don't look very thick. When I was a stonemason in France we built walls twice that thick, and with undressed stone. We worked the traditional way, with lime mortar, and building the scaffolding into the wall as we went up. While I never worked on any castles, I did work on a house that was built in around 1200 A.D. I'd love to build my own house out of stone some day, but I'm definitely not at that point yet in my life - I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up (I'm 30 now).

Andrew.

I imagine the fact that they put a rebar-reinforced concrete core up the center of their walls, instead of a rubble fill, helps reduce the mass requiered for structural stability?

[Andrew Breecher]

I imagine the fact that they put a rebar-reinforced concrete core up the center of their walls, instead of a rubble fill, helps reduce the mass requiered for structural stability?

Yes, I hadn't seen their construction methods when I posted, but upon closer perusal of the site I noticed that. They also look like they're tying the central reinforcing metal in to the stonework, which is good. This method of building is much faster - and easier - than what I used! (It's probably also required for certain building codes.) I want a castle!

Andrew.