For decorative decoration of facades, as well as to protect them from unfavorable environmental factors, now more and more often ordinary consumers use materials of a new generation, which includes artificial stone.
The process of manufacturing an artificial decorative stone for facade decoration is based on molding on a special technology from a cement-sand mixture of a product that after the addition of various resins and dyes acquires unique performance characteristics and a rather decorative appearance. But artificial stone, with almost identical performance characteristics, has a number of significant advantages over its natural prototype:
- has significantly less weight . Even if the facade of the house is completely covered with an artificial stone, this will not create additional stress on the supporting structures and foundation;
- It is easy to install and process . In fact, an artificial stone can be attributed to tile materials. The process of its laying is identical to the process of laying ordinary tiles;
- has a high decorative , sometimes even more than a natural stone .
And one more important indicator - an artificial stone is much cheaper than its natural counterparts.
Types of artificial stone for finishing facades
It should immediately be stipulated that there is no single criterion for dividing into types of this finishing material. Different manufacturers have the same type of artificial stone can have completely different names, which do not carry, moreover, any specific information about the product. Therefore, in order to orient the buyer a little, in the building supermarkets the artificial stone is classified by types, emphasizing the type of natural stone that it imitates:
- Stone of natural form . The surface of the tile of artificial stone does not have the right forms, it can be characterized as a stone chip. The surface of limestone, cobblestone, pebbles, untreated marble or quartz is imitated.
- The sawn stone . The facing material of this type has the form of a tile of the correct size, the outer surface of which imitates the surface of natural stone (loose limestone, sandstone). This is also referred to as the so-called layered artificial stone, the surface of which resembles a laminated layer (as the name has determined) stone plates, and the general appearance of the lined surface resembles a rock crushed rock.
Artificial stone for finishing the facades of private houses
Having stopped the choice on an artificial stone, as on a material for furnish of a facade, do not hasten to get the first liked its kind. For facade cladding, you should choose an artificial stone, which is used only for outdoor works (artificial stone is produced for interior decoration and universal). Be sure to ask and such an indicator as the frost resistance of this finishing material. A qualitative artificial stone has this index of the order of 100-150 cycles. Actually, the facade of the house is decorated with an artificial stone, either with a seaming or a butt-end, depending on the type of stone. As a rule, the butt sticks to the stone "under the cleavage." As a binder composition can be used as a traditional material - cement mortar, and special glue. Facing the façade with an artificial stone is made either completely on the entire surface, or fragmentarily with the isolation of individual architectural elements - door or window openings, corners. Combinations of artificial stone with a surface for various types of natural stone can be used.
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