Foundations

Cultivated the stone product installation is really absolutely simple. You need generally only the basic tools such as a hammer, cuts of one barks, trowel of masón, level, metal that the small stick of the tool or wood articulates, groutbag, clamps, small hatchet, and a broom of beating. A wheelbarrow and a hoe are also preferred to mix and to transport mortar.

Each manufacturer has specific guidelines for his product, but for most, the guidelines of the installation are very similar to the following one.

These products are installed in a fresh bed of the mortar that separates on a surface of the wall. In all the cases, with the exception of fresh or the absolutely clean walls, without sealing of the masonry, extended strip of the connection of the diamond they are due to nail surely to the wall. Before installing the connection, the wall must have an approved barrier of the humidity as saturated paper asphalt of the felt or impermeable paper of the building of Kraft.

When the stone must be applied in an outer surface of the wall, the connection and all the nails must be galvanized. This is very important, because the not-galvanized metal use can cause two important problems: For the one, stone he could fall of the wall if he turns rusty the connection or the nails, and before this lack you will see surely you stain of the mould through mortar.

If you have a new one or sandblasted the wall of the masonry that is structural healthy, you can eliminate the connection. The walls painted or sealed of the masonry must have applied connection. 7. After the connection is applied, you simply apply a heavy layer from 1/2 to 3/4 inch of fresh mortar on the connection. Apply only mortar to the connection where you can apply the stone within some minutes. You later grease with mantequilla the posteriora part of stones and she presses them in place.

For the best results, the stones must be fit so that the joints of mortar between the 3/4 pieces do not exceed inch. If the wall happens to be a fire-resistant one enumerated UL, the joints cannot exceed 1/ìnch. 9. The spectacular results can be reached using colored mortar. The mortar that fixes must as well be colored as the mortar that is used to fill between the pieces of the stone after it pays attention. East common mortar is applied using a purse of the grout. A purse of the grout is right like the purses the applications of a baker to apply the decorative icing-up to cakes, is only greater.

After mortar between the joints has hardened sufficiently, you can press the joints with a metal fillet or use a small stick. He depends simply on the glance that you wish to reach. The final tact is to slightly cepillar the joints with a broom of beating. Never cepille the joints until mortar has fixed totally. If you cepilla too much soon, you will stain mortar on rocks.

The best way to see what its work will watch since it is to cause that his masón constructs a panel of test for you. Construct to a fast wall of 4 xs 6 feet and téngala covered with the stone with the finished joints. This would cost just slightly on $200 in most of the markets. The advantage is that you can see exactly what a great surface will seem the ignited stone. He is a good insurance policy!