Wooden house: stone cladding - practical and fabulous

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Wooden house cladding with stone and wood

Facing a wooden house with stone is the best option for combining the diverse, unique beauty of textures, colors, combinations among themselves, as in the photo, and logical additions. This is the case when the ecological purity of the climate of a wooden house, the relatively low construction price, the ability to “breathe” walls and the unique woody aroma are complemented by the advantages of stone products.
This includes reliability and durability, fire resistance, architectural respectability and expressiveness of appearance.

Benefits of Stone Cladding Technology

New construction technologies wooden houses it is quite possible to wear facades in stone clothes, combining both the advantages of both structures and leveling their negative properties, and they are present in these options.
So:

• For example, wood is sensitive to ultraviolet radiation, which can destroy the structure of the upper layer of the material.
• It interacts with moisture, swells from its effects and can rot.
• These shortcomings are acquired by a wooden structure, which can also be covered with fungus, mold and succumb to the destructive action of other biological organisms, for which damp wood serves as a fertile habitat.
• Stone cladding of wooden houses serves as an effective means of combating these negative phenomena.
• The utilitarian function of stone decoration of a wooden house has a decorative value, effectively and profitably transforming the house from the aesthetic side.
• Decorative work involves a couple of ways of execution.
• In the first case, a full stone lining of the building is performed.
• In the second embodiment, a partial stone lining is provided.
• The main architectural elements of the building stand out with stone.
• In the first case, a wooden house is practically no different from stone buildings.
• The full stone facing of a wooden house is time-consuming operation, and costly.

Attention: All costs are justified by completely high energy efficiency indicators. The house is able to save heat in the winter and cool the house in the summer heat.

• The second method involves the finishing of the main structural elements, which include a basement, corner parts of the facade, stylistic design of window and door openings, cornices, chimneys and other, protruding parts of the house.

The sequence of house cladding techniques

The diagram gives an idea of ​​proper installation.

There are a great many options for design and stylistic proposals; they allow us to satisfy the most demanding tastes of customers in projects. Cladding of wooden houses stone are distinguished by a special technology, which involves painstaking work in preparation for decoration and no less laborious installation techniques.
So:

• The preparation process includes the selection of necessary materials and surface preparation.
• Facing a wooden house with artificial stone involves the preliminary preparation and sorting of the stone according to size, shape, tonality and color similarity.
• Each stone is marked, with natural stones, grooves, nests for fastening are drilled.
• The shape of the natural stone and its origin play a significant role in the decoration.These factors affect the selection of installation technology and materials for grouting surfaces.
• It is also necessary to prepare the surface because the facing of wooden houses with artificial stone directly on the walls of timber or logs is not performed.
• Here, the factor of accounting for the load on the foundation acts.
• The difference in vapor permeability between wood and stone.
• The presence of seasonal and initial shrinkage of wooden structures.
• Therefore, finishing work on a wooden house is carried out on a special, pre-prepared screen, consisting of a frame and sheet material having waterproof characteristics.

Caution: Cement bonded and glass-magnesite slabs are most often used for these purposes.

• The frame is prepared from a bent steel profile, and the wooden surface is pre-treated with a fire-resistant composition and antiseptic.
• The finished structure has two surfaces, one of which is the base, the second surface. A ventilation gap is formed between them, which can protect the wood from external influences and not impede the free circulation of air flows.
• The final operation is associated with attaching a polymer mesh to the screen surface. An adhesive mass is applied to the mesh, which provides a screed of the space on which the stone cladding is placed.
• The technological effectiveness of the process, the specifics of the work and the nuances present require qualified specialists, although no one can prohibit doing the whole list of work with their own hands. It is important to have a desire, experience with natural stone and decorative products made of artificial stone.

How to calculate the amount of material

Artificially made slabs with imitation of natural stone refers to a cost-effective lining.

Decorative stone in the interior

Decorative stone in interior decoration

More familiar use decorative stone it is for finishing the external facade of the building, columns, windows, arbors, that is, monumental structures. However, its use is not limited only to external works.
Decorative stone is a great material for indoor use. He has a variety of sizes and colors, and the appearance is indistinguishable from natural stone.
Today there are several varieties of decorative materials - gypsum, quartz and acrylic.
So:

• Facing with artificial stone in a wooden house can most often be observed on fireplaces.
• Moreover, the cladding can be performed both natural and artificial stone.
• If a real, wood-burning fireplace is built in the house, then preference is given to natural materials, given the ability to withstand high temperatures and at the same time keep the finish intact.
• Portals of gas and electric fireplaces are most often made with artificial stone, which does not mean at all that the owner has received the worst option.
• Facing stone can be used in the living room, bedroom, kitchen. There is one thing, but not everyone likes stone caves, then you can simply zon the space.

The instructions for facing the house outside and inside with natural and decorative stones contain recommendations for covering the top layer with a special solution to avoid efflorescence, moss and mold. In the video, the masters say that in the future no additional processing is required, if you follow all their recommendations, this will help to avoid errors during the work.