In this video this old house landscape contractor roger cook dresses up a block wall with stone veneer panels.
How to face a concrete wall with stone.
Because faux stone is so light it can be adhered to a specially prepared wall surface with conventional mortar.
This old house landscape contractor roger cook dresses up a block wall with stone veneer panels.
Use a pressure washer fitted with a paint stripping tip to blast the concrete wall clean of all stain paint and dirt.
The face stones visible edges should rest only on stone not mortar so scrape away any mortar that squeezes out.
Wipe the stone only not the joint lines.
Remove the stone spread a trowelful of mortar on the wall and tamp the stone into it with a mallet.
Wipe the face of the veneer stone with a damp rag to remove any remaining mortar film.
Add more mortar mix to a 10 square foot area.
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Eventually you ll have to cut a stone to make it fit.
Mark the stones to cut photo by russell kaye.
This is the part 2 video of us showing how to apply the stone ledgers under the cantilever ledge to give your walls houses block walls or whatever you want.
How to face a concrete block wall with stone.
Remove any remaining stain or paint from the wall with a right angle grinder fitted with wire brush.
Apply a 1 2 inch thick layer of mortar to the back of each stone as you set it in place in the mortar on the foundation wall.
Whether you are dealing with fist sized stones pulled straight from the river or stone veneers that are shaved down into tile like thicknesses stone.
New faux stone is composed of conventional cement with soft lightweight pumice like fillers making it easy to cut with a circular saw or a 4 1 2 in.