Kevin's home town
Ossipee is where Jones Legacy is based, so it is the shortest drive Kevin makes. The town covers about 75 square miles, and it is really a set of villages: Center Ossipee, Ossipee Corner, West Ossipee, Water Village, Granite and Moultonville. Routes 16, 25, 28 and 171 tie them together.
Ossipee is also the county seat of Carroll County. Plenty of people only know Ossipee Corner from a trip to the county offices. Kevin works out of this town, so the back roads, the lake roads and the hill roads are all familiar ground.
What stone veneer means on an Ossipee house
Stone veneer is a face of real stone set onto a wall that is already there. Usually that is a poured concrete foundation, a block wall, or a framed wall that has been prepped to carry stone. You get the look of a solid stone wall without building one from a footing up.
Ossipee houses are a mix. There are camps and year round homes around Ossipee Lake, older farmhouses along the village roads, and newer houses on wooded lots off Route 16 and Route 28. A camp with a tall foundation on the lake side needs stone that looks right from the water. A new house often has a strip of gray concrete showing above the grade that never looked finished.
- Foundations, including the exposed side of a walkout basement
- Round fieldstone on columns and posts under decks and porches
- Fireplace surrounds and hearth walls
- Entries, porch bases and low walls by the door
Sand, gravel and the Ossipee Mountains
Ossipee is known as a major source of sand and gravel, and a lot of the town sits on it. Ground like that drains well, which helps at the bottom of a veneer job. But frost still heaves, snow still sits against the house all winter, and meltwater still runs down the foundation in March.
So the details matter. The stone needs a proper base where it stops, a gap between it and the soil, flashing wherever a deck or a window breaks the wall, and a path for water to get out from behind it.
On the west side of town the Ossipee Mountains rise in a ring, the remains of an old volcanic ring dike. Lots up that way are more likely to hit ledge and slope, and a house on a hill can show a lot more concrete on the downhill side. That downhill face is where veneer usually does the most good.
Ossipee Lake frontage
Ossipee Lake sits in the northeast part of town. The Pine, Beech, Bearcamp and Lovell rivers feed it, and a channel links it to Broad Bay on the way toward Freedom and Effingham. A house on the water gets looked at from two sides, the road and the lake.
From a boat you mostly see the foundation, the deck posts and the stairs to the shore. Natural fieldstone veneer on those parts makes the house look settled into the ground. And Kevin can build the fieldstone walls and flagstone walkways that run from the house down to the water.
Other jobs Kevin takes on in town
Stone veneer is the specialty. Being local, Kevin also takes the in between work: New Hampshire fieldstone walls along a property line, stone steps from the driveway to the door, a patio out back, and interior and exterior painting from one room to a whole house.
If a project mixes stone and paint, like a porch that needs stone posts and new trim, one call covers both.
Calling someone already in town
Call or text (603) 581-5350. Jones Legacy is open every day from 7am to 10pm. A text with two or three photos of the wall, the village you are in and a rough size is the fastest start. From there Kevin can come out to look at it and talk through stone and price.
