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(dry) "Fitted stone" facades
In preparation for house paint (probably this Summer/Fall),
I'm trying to decide what to do with the porches. Exterior of each is cheap, painted paneling. Rest of house is stucco over block. I could stucco both but that seems pretty boring. Another option is tongue and groove planks -- possibly set at a 45 to the floor (for a "swept" look). Natural stain. Yet another option (my favorite) is a fitted stone facade. But, the sort where there are no grout lines -- just very tightly fitted stones (the stones having shapes similar to *bricks* -- of various sizes). I.e., the wall feels almost flat -- but rough. They are not structural -- perhaps just a couple of inches thick (front to back) and no stone/brick is more than an inch or two "tall". A cursory look at these sorts of walls (usually on commercial establishments, not residences) *suggests* that they are individual stones and someone just was incredibly patient/lucky to manage to ALWAYS find "just the right stone" for the odd shape that needed to be filled. I'm pretty sure I don't believe that! I suspect they are prefabbed in some way (like the little 1" tiles you encounter on bathroom floors -- sold in 12x12" SHEETS (so you don't have to set each individual tile!). But, the arrangement of "cracks"/edges is so busy that it's virtually impossible to *see* an underlying pattern! Can anyone confirm that they are, in fact, sold as "assemblies"? That I don't have to budget weeks of time to preisely fitting a gazillion little rectangular blocks? And, as there appears to be no mortar (between "courses"), how they are attached to the structure? |
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