Stone cladding is durable, attractive, and low maintenance. Here’s what you need to know about this stone alternative.
Stone cladding is also known as stacked stone or stone veneer. It can be made from actual stone or artificial, so-called engineered stone. It’s available in a wide variety of finishes that look like slate, brick, and many other stones. It’s a fast and affordable way to get the look of stone on a wall without the cost or time of a masonry installation.
U rivestimentu di petra hà assai vantaghji annantu à l'altri materiali di custruzzione è, in certi casi, nantu à a custruzzione di pietra di muratura.
• Lightness: Stone cladding is easier to carry and install than natural stone, and it places less pressure on the existing structure. It generally weighs considerably less than natural stone.
• Insulation: Stone cladding is weather-resistant and protective. It helps a building stay warm in winter and cool in summer. Reinforcing the cladding with a steel or aluminum framework, called a honeycomb, makes it able to resist earthquakes and high winds.
• Minimal maintenance: Like stone, stone cladding requires little upkeep to look good for many years.
• Ease of installation: Lightweight cladding is easier to install than stone. It doesn’t require the same heavy equipment that a masonry installation does. This doesn’t mean you can install it yourself, however. Hanging stone cladding requires experience and skill.
• Esthetics: Stone gives any building an elegant look. Cladding can look like quartz, granite, marble, or any natural stone. It also comes in a wide choice of colors. Because you can install it anywhere, stone cladding gives you endless ways to design with stone.
Ancore undercut
Questu hè u metudu abituale per grandi installazioni. In un sistema d'ancora undercut, l'installatori perforanu i buchi in u spinu di a petra, inserisce un bolt è fissanu u cladding horizontalmente. Questu hè un bonu metudu per soffitti è pannelli più grossi.
Metudu Kerf
In questu metudu, l'installatori taglianu groove in cima è in fondu di a petra. I siti di petra nantu à un clasp à u fondu di u pannellu di cladding cun un second clasp à a cima. Questu hè un metudu di stallazione veloce è faciule chì hè eccellente per installazioni più chjuche è pannelli più sottili.
I dui metudi di stallazione utilizanu un disignu di articulazione aperta. Per imità l'aspettu di a petra vera, l'installatori indicanu i spazii trà e junzioni cù u grout di muratura.
• Entry areas
• Bathrooms
• Kitchens
• Sheds
• Freestanding garages
• Patios
• Mailboxes
Mentre chì u revestimentu di petra hè eccellente in parechji casi, ùn hè micca ideale per ogni stallazione. Hà ancu qualchì disadvantage chì a petra ùn hà micca.
• It’s not as durable as a masonry installation.
• Some veneers allow moisture to seep into the joints.
• It can crack under repeated freeze-and-thaw cycles.,
• Unlike natural stone, it is not a sustainable building material.