How to do stucco under a stone with your own hands

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Facade stucco for stone

Facade stucco under a stone will allow you to make a plane with high quality and the price will be relatively low. Today we will consider how to apply decorative stucco under a stone with our own hands and how to do it correctly. Also in the video in this article you can see the various options for doing this work.

Scope of decorative stone plaster

Decorative plaster - stone chips - suitable for both indoor and outdoor finishing work:

• Indoors, stone chips are used when facing a wall, fireplace (see Facing the fireplace: we select the material and make), chimney, furnace structure. With the help of stone decoration, you can successfully highlight such decorative elements as an arch, opening, ledge. Some designers even create a whole panel of this material. As a rule, decoration with a stone looks advantageous in a hotel, restaurant, cafe and even in a spacious homestead, creating a Mediterranean effect.
• Decorative stone crumb perfectly suits its characteristics and properties for decorating the facade of the building, basement, columns, fence, while harmoniously blending into the environment.
• And what is important, both for work inside and out - stone plaster is well applied to a surface made of any kind of material: brick, concrete, foam blocks (see. How to plaster walls from foam blocks, retaining their ability to "breathe"), drywall or particleboard.

Caution: Preference should be given to coarse pebbled stucco. It is presented in a wide assortment: granite, quartz, marble and others. All these types are distinguished by high resistance to weather phenomena, biological influences, and stucco stone flower - also the lack of shrinkage.

Advantages and disadvantages of stone plaster

Stone stucco is classified as finishing building materials, and, like any of them, the decorative mixture has its advantages and disadvantages. Having considered all the pros and cons, you can confidently make a choice in favor of this type of finishing material or abandon it.

The advantages of crumbling stone plaster are as follows:

• Good vapor permeability makes the material breathable, which is important for indoor cladding. In this case, the walls, as it were, can breathe, creating a favorable microclimate in the room.
• The ability to withstand various mechanical influences, shocks.
• Resistance to temperature changes, aggressive environmental factors: ultraviolet radiation, high humidity, frost, fungal infections.
• Preservation of the original characteristics and properties, including color and appearance.
• Long life with all the functions of reliable coverage.
• Convenience of applying the solution to the surface.
• Easy to care for the finished product.

The disadvantages of decorative stone plaster are only two:

• The risk of corrosion of the metal surface due to the fact that this material is water-based.
• It is not recommended to apply on heaters such as mineral wool, as it is possible to reduce vapor-permeable properties.

The rest - stucco under stone can be called an ideal option for surface finishing, interior decoration.

The composition of the stucco mixture stone chips

The crumb stone mortar can easily be called an environmentally friendly product, since it consists exclusively of natural components, without the content of chemical compounds harmful to health.

It is based on a combination of the following components:

Attention: To get a stone surface, use a special form of various configurations made of polymer, plastic or polyurethane. This form is applied to the applied, non-hardened layer of plaster and extrude the profile, thus creating a texture.

Distinctive features of stone plaster

Facade stucco under a stone has its own characteristics and characteristics:

• Ability to apply to the surface without using a special mounting grid. This is due to the light weight of the stone plaster.
• The ratio of low price and reasonable quality decorative coatings.
• The versatility of the material allows the use of crushed stone for work both indoors and on cladding outside the building. Good for decorating fences, steps.
• A variety of special shapes provides various types of textures on the surface. So, with the help of forms, you can create a picture imitating brickwork, large stones.
• Stone plaster is perfectly combined with any materials, types of surfaces, performing a decorative function, giving the interior a unique, individuality.
• Using this mixture, you can solve the problem of leveling the surface. In this case, the first leveling layer is applied, and the second is decorative, creating a textured pattern.
• Along with the manual application method, there is also a machine one. In any case, it takes a little time and effort to form a surface, which significantly reduces the cost of the process.
• Stucco stone crumb can be done and the finish coating. But sometimes a special mixture is also applied to it to imitate the aging of the surface, to create the illusion of an ancient thing.
• The presence in the composition of cement provides high characteristics that allow you to tolerate temperature fluctuations, exposure to sunlight, excess humidity.
• Stone plaster is resistant to cracking and delamination.
• The decorative mixture is also perfect for work on the surface of insulation materials. Moreover, the application process does not differ from the usual.
• Equally important is that all the work can be done with your own hands, and this will significantly reduce costs.

Methods of applying stone plaster to the surface

Decorative plaster It is not superimposed on the entire surface at once, but in areas up to three square meters. m

The following tools will come in handy:

Photo of applying decorative plaster

• Two types of spatula: large rectangular and small trapezoidal;
• Kelma, of the Venetian type;
• Brush, roller, brush, stencil - depending on the selected effect.

There are several ways to structure the surface:

• Rough texture without processing.As the name implies, the plaster is simply thrown onto the wall and leveled with a trowel.
• A grainy pattern also does not require much effort to create. To do this, plaster mixture is thrown on the wall, compacted and leveled. As soon as the plaster begins to set, proceed to grout it with graters.
• The stamped texture is obtained by using stamps, forms, laying them on the wall and imprinting, pushing into the solution. Then they remove and process the resulting convex pattern with a steel brush. So, it turns out an imitation of large stones.
• If the convex pattern is treated with a steel brush and a chisel, the effect will be under the dunes. In this case, the mortar film is removed with a brush, and small notches are applied with a chisel.
• The ragged stone pattern is executed, just like under the dunes, with only one difference - the notches are made in a chaotic mess, of different lengths.

In the same way, decorative wood-like plaster can be applied. All the rules are exactly the same, just decorative stucco for wood should be selected in the desired texture and color.