HE AHA TE KAUPAPA KAUPAPA KAUPAPA KAUPAPA KAUPAPA KAUPAPA KOhatu mo to kainga

I roto i tenei tuhinga, ka tirohia e matou etahi waahanga nui mo te hanga i to pakitara tino pai me nga huānga e whakakotahi ana ki te hoatu ki a koe nga whakaotinga e kitea ana e koe i tenei ra i runga i etahi o nga kaainga tino whakamiharo puta noa i te motu.

We’ll take a look at what natural stone cladding is, what types are available to you, which would work best for you and ultimately a guideline on how to install your cladding.

HE AHA TE KAUPAPA?

“Cladding” is made to dress your wall with stone without the costs of building walls with blocks and labour costs associated with them. You can easily clad your wall with your preferred material and blend it in to suit your environment in a more efficient and cost-effective way.

HE AHA TE KAUPAPA KOHATU NATURAL?

Ko te Whakapiri Kohatu he papa angiangi o te kowhatu e whakamahia ana ki tetahi whare, ki etahi atu hanganga ranei i mahia mai i tetahi mea ke atu i te kohatu. Ko te whakakikorua kohatu ka piri ki te pakitara raima, te mahi pereki me nga whare hei waahanga o ta raatau hoahoa hoahoanga. Ko te tuara o ia wahi kohatu ka kani ki te papatahi, e taea ai te whakanoho i nga kohatu ki nga taputapu tika.

Na nga waahi kua marara puta noa i te ao, kei te nuinga o nga whenua etahi ahua o te kohatu taiao e kitea ana i raro iho.

Natural stone “cladding” is thin slices of quarried natural stones. They are taken out of the land and accordingly sliced into blocks and boulders – from these blocks/boulders, the products you see today are manufactured and made.

Me te maha o nga momo momo kohatu taiao, mai i te granite ki te quartzite mai i te travertine ki te mapere, he momo whakakikorua kia pai ki te tangata me te katoa.

He aha te ahua kore utu Cladding?

Free form – These are small, medium and large pieces of loose natural stone with sawn flat back pieces that come together to create an organic wall that appears like it has been built for centuries. The definition of “free-form” is individual pieces.

Ma te tuara kua taraihia kia ngawari te whakaurunga, ka whakapirihia a maatau kohatu taapiri pakitara ki runga i te pakitara o naianei, e hanga ana i te ahua kaiao korekore.

I whakauruhia e te tohunga toha kohatu, he mea nui ki te kounga o te kohatu i whakamahia tae atu ki te ahua me te whakaotinga o te kohatu, ko te kounga o te mahi toi mai i to kaiwhakaputa.

Kokonga kohatu kirikiri hukapapa

Freeform organic stonework is an art form, and the artist is critical in completing the ‘picture’ that becomes your wall.

Ehara i te mea he tauira hei whai ma ratou, he huarahi motuhake me whakatakoto e koe ia momo whakakikorua waro kia pai ai te ahua. Ko ta matou e ngana ana ki te whakatutuki i konei ko te ahua o to hanganga i hangaia mai i nga poraka tuuturu, i nga rau tau ki muri.

Mena ka whakatakotohia e koe te kapi me te mea he peita waitara, he momo tauira ranei ka huri koe i te pakitara hei taiepa kohatu tauira. (he pai mena kei muri koe i tera titiro) kaua ki te whakatutuki i te ahua o te pakitara hanga hanga e hangaia ana/whakapaehia ana e te paraka kohatu ma ia poraka. Ma tenei ka pai ki ia waahanga tona kakano, te ahua me te tae.

For example, If your stonemason were going to build a wall say 10m long and 5 meters high from blocks, the wall should be structurally stable, it needs to be stacked one on top of another so it doesn’t ever fall or collapse.

I te wa e whakakikoruatia ana he kohatu taiao ki runga i te pakitara o naianei me rite tonu te ahua me te mea he mea hanga mai i nga poraka tuuturu, me ahua pumau tonu. Ahakoa ko te tïpako kei muri e tika ana kia u!

Ki te kore koe e kite i te rereketanga i te wa e titiro ana koe ki te pakitara poraka me te pakitara whakakikoruatia, kua tutuki i a koe te pakitara mohoao karekau e pohehe te tangata e whakaaro ana mena he mea whakakakahu te pakitara, he mahi poraka ranei.

Armstone offers corners pieces of all the stone claddings which are available in pre-cut 90-degree pieces to give you that full stone, block look. The benefit here is that you don’t have to get your stonemason to mitre the corners, its best to avoid seeing any cut joints anywhere on the wall.

To achieve the true organic look your installer shouldn’t have any sawn cuts on your stonework. They should make cuts from the back of the stone and split each individual piece of the stone to prevent having a sawn cut on the face or side of the piece.

Mena kei a koe nga tapa kani, ka taea e koe te tapatapahi te tapa o ia waahanga kia pai ake te mata o te kohatu. Ma konei e tino whakaatu ai te tohungatanga o to mahi toka kohatu.

Ina oti tika, ka taea e te pakitara kaiao kore utu te hanga i tetahi ahuatanga whakamiharo mo to roto, o waho ranei. Heoi ano ki nga mea katoa i roto i te ao, mena ka tapahia nga kokonga, kaore he take ki te haere i roto i te mahi. Ka pai ake tetahi ki etahi atu, he pai ake nga whiringa mahi.

HE AHA TE KAUPAPA KOHATU MORERO?

In the Free Form individual stone cladding range, you can either do “Dry Stack” aka “Dry Stone Cladding” which means that the stone cladding is Not Grouted (no any cement filled into the gaps) or Grouted. 

Some stones look good in “dry stack” and some “grouted”. Ko te mea katoa mo to hiahia whaiaro.

Some Natural Stone Claddings looks really organic when you lay them in “Crazy” pattern. This is where the pieces don’t have any even sizes or shapes.

If you are planning to do a dry stack you must plan ahead to have the grout joints tight or you if you’d like to grout you should use packers to get consistent grout joints for each individual piece of stone.

Ki te kore koe e tino mohio ko tehea ka pai ki to kaainga, ki to kaupapa ranei waea mai ki a maatau ka korero mai ki a maatau, kei te tino mohio matou kei te whakarite maatau i te otinga tino pai.

Besides the “Crazy” format stone cladding nowadays more architects and landscape designers are specifying the “Random Ashlar” pattern which is suited for more modern designs.

“Random Ashlar” is a random Geometric pattern – Te pungarehu ohorere, he tapawha matapōkere me ngā tapawhā hāngai ngā mongamonga.