Help with repairing a stone wall

[hafdell]

I have a wall that has started to deteriorate. The wall seems to be cast with cement?-sand+stone and there are large boulders on the front. It's supposed to look like it's laid with stones but it's kind of a cheat... It has started to fall apart and the cement looks mostly like sand in several places and just a tap makes it fall off... how do I best repair this?


ps. the wall is from when we had trains on Gotland, so maybe 50-70 years old

 

[peternicklas]

It's probably just the hard way, tear everything down, clean it up, and then rebuild with bricks.

 

[hafdell]

That doesn't sound fun... don't you think you can cement the stones so it at least looks nice from the front?

 

[peternicklas]

I don't think you'll ever get new cement to bond with the old.

 

[Stefan N]

All the cement is leached out of the wall, so it will just collapse somewhere else if you manage to put what's missing now.

 

[hafdell]

Hmm... then I'll have to forget about it I'll fix something else that's broken, like the garage floor or build a grill.