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# Rebuilding a drystone wall, badly
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/podcast/ep-02-rebuilding-a-drystone-wall-badly/
- Published: 2026-02-27T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T20:11:38.000Z
- Description: with Callum Reid · 41m
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #podcast

I rebuilt eight feet of drystone wall under supervision and it took a day and a half. Callum Reid, who does this properly, was extremely kind about it.

> Every stone has one place it wants to go and about forty where it will sit for a year and then fall out.  
> Callum Reid

## In this episode

1. 01:30 My eight feet, assessed honestly.
2. 11:00 Why you never break a stone if you can turn it.
3. 20:40 Walls that have stood two hundred years and walls that stood two.
4. 31:15 On being paid by the metre for something that lasts a century.
5. 38:00 Forty more years.

## Mentioned

- The Dry Stone Walling Association craftsman scheme
- *Stone Walls* by Andrew Loudon
- My own eight feet, still standing at time of writing

Recorded on a hillside above Cheddar, out of breath.