How to spread artificial stone

How to spread artificial stone

Now more often at repair use artificial stone. Use it in the most various cases. In rooms with its help decorate walls, corners, fireplaces, furnaces and other constructions. Outside with its help revet houses, fences, columns for fences and other other constructions.

Before starting laying, it is necessary to prepare working surface. It is necessary to define geometry of laying of stone. Often it is not done, but look at the same time not always beautiful. Accounting of geometry and relief of stone is required.

Most often in rooms the surface is concrete, brick or already plastered. Preparatory operations in that case will be minimum. It is necessary to remove carefully old wall-paper, dust, dirt, pieces of eraser, wiring and other particles.

Then on surface it is necessary to execute processing by acrylic primer. When mounting stone on surface from gypsum cardboard, its reinforcing by means of construction grid and cement slurry is made.

For production of stone the cement of plaster is used. From rear side it needs additional treatment by means of acrylic primer. Thanks to such impregnation the structure of stone is fixed, there is restriction of its water-absorbing capacity. Otherwise its cracking and breaking off of parts is possible.

If for production of stone sandy materials undertook, it is possible to use only cement mixes for gluing and if material of gipsosoderzhashchiya, then it is possible to use mastics, the PVA-containing glue and many other mixes.

It is necessary to put stone from the lower ranks, and to watch that they were horizontal. It is necessary to begin laying with far corner as this direction will be optimum. 

Between stones it is necessary to leave gap. The look at the same time will be more refined. Then for filling of these grooves it is possible to use rustovy mixes. For their use special skills are not required. And sometimes to cover seams, there is enough also glue. Tincturing of seams is sometimes carried out in order that they looked more expressively.

Drawing protecting cover will be the last stage.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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