Facing the facade and basement to create a single ensemble

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

The house, as a harmonious insert in the natural landscape

An eternal desire and dream to have a large, beautiful house with stylish finishes, and to be inexpensive. The inconsistency of such fantasies is shown by facing socles and facades at the stage of development of a design project and documentation.
Original, individual, presentable construction is not cheap, and it’s quite realistic to look at the photo and then compare the cost of various finishing materials. The stereotype of thinking sometimes interferes with looking the truth in the eye, for example, it is believed that plaster belongs to cheap finishing materials.
By watching the videos of the masters, you are convinced of the fallacy of such judgments.

Facing material

The Grafito plaster system is a very interesting technology. It allows you to apply plaster on any surface using stencils and obtain surfaces with different patterns, for example, the plaster is plastered like stone, and the facade is made with a different pattern.
The price declared by the manufacturers is quite satisfactory in comparison with natural or decorative stonem. In fact, everything is completely wrong.
Even the purchase of finishing materials is difficult. You must either use the services of a specialized center with trained specialists who are able to carry out these works, or choose your own team, which will undergo training in the same center.
One has to forget about doing the work with one's own hands, and even in thoughts not to consider such an option, although from the point of view of the developers of this technology, this approach respects their reputation.
So:

• Base trim and the facade remains a relevant topic that needs to be addressed, so you can view and compare the cost of other finishing materials. To do this, you do not have to spend time visiting specialized stores and markets that sell natural stone, and if there is still an opinion that facing with natural stone is expensive, then you can argue with this opinion.
  Of course, rare rocks of granite, marble and other minerals are respectively, but you can find quite budget material.
• Facing of facades and plinths can be carried out by fragmentation sandstone having a terracotta red color. For reference, you can bring interesting information.
  It is a natural, natural stone. What is interesting here?
  Plates of constant thickness within the same surface, fragmented shape. The stone is an original product with a smooth, slightly rough surface.
  Color is obtained during the firing process in special furnaces, here additional strength characteristics are acquired. The scope is quite extensive - facing fireplaces, facades, socles, foundations, pedestrian areas with garden paths, entry areas, and if you correctly install and select the lighting, you will get tired of giving advice on this material to neighbors.

Attention: When choosing a stone, ask to moisten its surface with water, the resulting "wet color" corresponds to a stone subsequently varnished.

• Facing the socles of facades with sandstone with a cost of 600 rubles. per square meter. Acquired materials for cladding - insulation from extruded polystyrene plates, glue, special mesh, cement mix, fasteners, varnish.
  The price includes payment for the work, and all this pleasure translates into about 2600 rubles / m².Stucco under the Graffito stone without the cost of training a specialized team will cost 2,400 rubles / m², the difference of 200 rubles / m² is not such a big price for natural material.

The table below provides the necessary information on finishing materials, you can choose an interesting option.

Exclusive cladding

The torn stone tile sounds strange but is great for cladding

Among the variety of finishing materials with a lot of advantages, one question does not give rest: is it possible to choose an exclusive cladding from them, and which one. It turns out that the house looks luxurious, facing the basement facade, which is tiled with torn stone.
The association is strange, a ragged ear, a ragged nostril in Russian literature is quite common, but here a ragged stone, but nonetheless:

• This finish belongs to expensive pleasures, here it is necessary to add laborious installation, tile delivery operations, facing with torn stone requires strengthening the foundation. Despite this, torn stone cladding is popular and in demand, let's see why.
• There is no loss of material during cladding, which cannot be avoided when working with natural stone.
• Marble chips, which are part of the material, and acrylic water dispersion, as a binder, give a stunning effect of texture and shades not different from natural stone.
• However, not only the appearance is determining its merits, it should be noted the strength of this material, its frost resistance and fire resistance.
• It does not leak moisture when properly laid, so the walls of the building are protected from precipitation and temperature disasters.
• Base trim house facade torn stone looks presentable on any building, and even a beginner can install it. Tiles with the same thickness parameters and a smooth, back surface are evidence of this.

Attention: The material can be cut and used for other purposes, with the right techniques in operation, the percentage of losses does not exceed 10%, a very low indicator.

• This tile is used for exterior and interior cladding for lack of harmful and dangerous additives, in addition, it is durable and gives a memorable look to fireplaces, columns, stairs, plinths, facades, garden paths.

Facing work

Cheerful little tower with columns and a high socle

Facing the basement of facades with torn stone, facades in full or use fragments, the priority of design fantasies on a faceless surface so far. Most often, a combination of a certain number of colors of the same material is used.
Torn stone refers to a universal material, it is suitable for buildings of any size and at the same time looks harmonious.
Facade and its facing:

• The surface is cleaned of dust.
• The deep penetration primer is being processed.
• Instructions and experts recommend pre-forming a pattern on the ground or floor.
• If frequent contact of the building with water is expected, the surface in front of the cladding is treated with a waterproofing compound.
• Fastening to the base is done with adhesive for ceramic tiles.

Base and cladding

Facing the basement of facades with torn stone tiles is still exclusive and inaccessible to a wide consumer. Do not despair, you can find a large number of products - decorative plaster, wild stone, paints, ceramic tilesbut we need a torn stone.

So:

• The ideally plastered surface of the base serves as a guarantor for high-quality and quick laying of tiles under the comb.
• The plastering process is carried out in several stages. This includes the work of setting beacons, pulling threads, throwing mortar and others.
• The reverse side of the tile has an uneven surface, so a comb of 10-12 mm in size is used.

Attention: It is necessary to calculate in which layout the tiles will look best.

• Facade cladding of the base is performed according to the level and a certain rule.
• Two tiles are exposed, separated from each other and set in level, and the remaining tiles are placed between them and are drawn to the rule.
• Masonry made of fragmentary stone looks better when the tiles are butt-to-head without embroidery.
• Such masonry requires preliminary grinding of the edges with a grinder, so that nothing would interfere with the joining of the tiles.
• Basement facing of the facade with tiles is done carefully, extremely carefully and accurately. In order not to spoil the appearance of the tile with glue that accidentally fell on it, you must quickly wash off the glue with a brush and water.
• For sawing tiles, a grinder or a water-cooled machine is used. It should be noted that this work is quite dusty and the machine is the best option, if possible.
• There is an option for tiling without plastering the surface.
• Fishing lines are pulled over a plumb line, a fishing line-slider is arranged, on which individual tiles are exposed.

Being engaged in the refinement of the basement and the facade of the house, the seemingly incompatible qualities of beauty, practicality, reliability were embodied in a composite material that imitates fragmentary stone. It can be applied and installed in any climatic zones.