Where we work — 04170
Stone mason in Saint-Julien-du-Verdon (04170)
Twenty kilometres, twenty-three minutes: Saint-Julien is the closest of the Verdon communes. The village sits on a hill of gypsum above Lake Castillon — and that gypsum changes how you approach an old wall.
Valley
Middle Verdon
From Annot
20 km from Annot, 23 min
Altitude
920 m
The local fabric
The village hill is a gypsum outcrop, worked on site for centuries: the Fabrique quarter had a plaster mill and a plaster-and-lime kiln. Plaster therefore went into building mortars, sometimes mixed with lime, and gives the old elevations their pink cast. You are not automatically on a pure lime mortar here, and that is the first thing we check before opening a joint.
Otherwise: limestone rubble, window surrounds modelled in plaster, a génoise at the eaves and canal tile. Around the village the rural fabric is dry stone — terrace walls, huts, the small farm stores known here as casaou. Many have been abandoned. It is a vocabulary that is being lost, and one we can still rebuild.
What we do there
- Repointing and façade repair in the right mortar — lime, or lime and plaster depending on the wall.
- Terrace walls and dry stone, rebuilt without mortar.
- Restoration of village houses and outbuildings.
- Structural masonry and earthworks.
A project in this commune?
Call us. We will tell you plainly how soon we could come, and whether the job is one for us.
Or call us directly 04 92 83 26 05