NI NINI KINACHOPANDA JINSI YA KUCHAGUA KANDA ZA MAWE KWA NYUMBA YAKO

Katika makala haya, tutaangalia baadhi ya maeneo muhimu ya kuunda ukuta wako bora na vipengele vinavyokuja pamoja ili kukupa faini unazoziona leo kwenye baadhi ya nyumba zinazovutia zaidi nchini kote.

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.

CLADDING NI NINI?

“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.

KUPANDA MAWE ASILI NI NINI?

Ufungaji wa Mawe ni safu nyembamba ya jiwe inayowekwa kwenye jengo au muundo mwingine uliotengenezwa kwa nyenzo isipokuwa jiwe. Ufungaji wa mawe unaambatana na ukuta wa zege, matofali na majengo kama sehemu ya muundo wao wa asili wa usanifu. Nyuma ya kila kipande cha jiwe hupigwa kwa kumaliza gorofa, ambayo inaruhusu mawe kuwekwa kwa substrates zinazofaa.

Pamoja na maeneo yaliyotawanyika kote ulimwenguni, nchi nyingi zina aina fulani ya mawe ya asili ambayo hupatikana chini yao.

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.

Pamoja na aina nyingi tofauti za mawe ya asili, kuanzia granite hadi quartzite kutoka travertine hadi marumaru kuna aina za cladding kutosheleza mtu yeyote na kila mtu.

Ufungaji wa fomu ya bure ni nini?

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.

Kwa mgongo ambao umekatwa kwa msumeno ili usakinishe kwa urahisi, mawe yetu ya mtu binafsi yanayofunika ukuta yamebandikwa kwenye ukuta uliopo, na hivyo kuunda mwonekano wa asili na usio na wakati.

Imewekwa na mwashi wa mawe stadi, sawa na muhimu kwa ubora wa jiwe linalotumiwa pamoja na umbo na umaliziaji wa jiwe, ni ubora wa ufundi kutoka kwa kisakinishi chako.

Kona ya ledgestone ya kijivu ya barafu

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

Sio muundo ambao wanapaswa kufuata, kuna njia maalum unahitaji kuweka kila aina ya vifuniko vya kikaboni ili kupata mwonekano sahihi. Tunachojaribu kufikia hapa ni kuonekana kwamba muundo wako umejengwa kwa mkono kutoka kwa vitalu halisi, karne nyingi zilizopita.

Ikiwa utaweka vifuniko kana kwamba ni mchoro wa kufikirika au aina fulani ya muundo unageuza ukuta kuwa zaidi ya ukuta wa mawe wenye muundo. (ambayo ni sawa ikiwa unafuata sura hiyo) badala ya kufikia mwonekano wa ukuta uliojengwa kikimuundo ambao umejengwa/kurundikwa na uashi wa mawe kwa block. Kwa njia hii kila kipande kinafaa nafaka zake, umbo na rangi.

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.

Wakati wa kufunika jiwe la asili la fomu ya bure kwenye ukuta uliopo, bado inahitaji kuonekana kana kwamba imejengwa kutoka kwa vitalu halisi, bado inahitaji kuonekana kuwa thabiti. Ingawa kwa kweli ni sehemu ndogo ya nyuma ambayo inahitaji kuwa thabiti!

Ikiwa huoni tofauti wakati wa kuangalia ukuta wa kuzuia na ukuta uliofunikwa, basi umepata ukuta unaotamaniwa usio na wakati ambao utatilia shaka mtu yeyote anayekisia ikiwa ukuta umefungwa au kuzuia kazi.

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.

Ikiwa una kingo zilizokatwa kwa msumeno, unaweza kung'oa ukingo wa kila kipande ili kulipatia jiwe makali ya asili zaidi. Hapa ndipo utaalamu wa mwashi wako wa mawe unapaswa kuonyesha kweli.

Inapofanywa ipasavyo, ukuta wa kikaboni wa fomu isiyolipishwa unaweza kuunda kipengele cha kustaajabisha cha kudumu ndani yako au nje. Walakini kama ilivyo kwa kitu chochote maishani, ikiwa pembe zimekatwa, hakuna maana katika kupitia mchakato huo. Moja itakuwa bora zaidi na chaguzi zingine, za vitendo zaidi.

KUPANDA MAWE KAVU NI NINI?

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”. Yote ni juu ya upendeleo wako wa kibinafsi.

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.

Iwapo huna uhakika ni ipi itafaa nyumba au mradi wako, tupigie simu na uongee nasi, tuna hakika kuwa tutakuletea suluhisho bora zaidi.

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 – Ashlar bila mpangilio, vipande vinajumuisha miraba isiyo na mpangilio na mistatili.