We get to see lots of self-destructing cast stone, and I always found it
curious that these elements can weather 70 or 80 years and then rapidly blow
apart. I didn't pay CrushStone Steve for his opinion that this is usually
freeze-thaw damage. It does amaze me that these things can be sitting right
next to each other on a band course or coping and one is completely crumbling
and the other remains in good condition.

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> The fact is to make good cast.... is more expensive (now) than it is to
> fabricate  the actual  stone
> I am talking detail and  not talking flat work .There is no such thing
> as cheap molds  or form work and the labor of refining the sands and
> stone powder to exact beautiful finishes let alone testing is
> something that cannot be bought off the shelf. There are some
> beautiful porticos here in the south of high grade work cast in place
> . The farther north you go the more this work has disappeared (see
> falling water) . In my work most of the time after a piece has
> weathered 25 or so winters it needs a sacrificial mineral coating
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