Cultured stone panels? or what IS this?
Huck
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I have a client who saw this commercial building – they want me to give them a bid to do the exact same to the front of their small house. The stone I can get at my local big box, or something real close. I thought the white part could be done by stucco over foam, but my stucco guy says no can do, it looks like cultured stone to him. Anyone seen this stuff, know where I can get it?
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A local tile store sells that product in approximate 12" high by 2' long by 2" thick flat backed panels. It was used on a coffee shop I did the interior of and the mason simply used an exterior grade mud to apply it to the cinder block walls.
Not sure what it was, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't cultured.
Near as I can tell, this is the stuff: foam with a thin (3/8") cementitious coating. I checked their showroom, sure looks like it. $2K+ for 100 lineal feet.
https://www.foamdesigncenter.com/index.aspView Image bakersfieldremodel.com
autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC)
OK, after a day of researching, I'm 99% sure its Stone Kote modified polymer portland cement over styrofoam. Comes in 32" wide by 33" high panels, can be cut with a grinder, and glued up with a proprietary thinset, right over stucco. Paintable.View Image bakersfieldremodel.com
Huck, thanks for sharing the website. They got some pretty neat stuff, although expensive.
What caught my eye was the 8ft balustrade section they listed. If you ever get to Sugarcreek, OH there is a lumber store nearby called Keim Lumber. They just recently completed a 120,000 SF showroom and the entire top level of that showroom has that same balustrade design...only difference is that Keim's was made at their saw mill "in-house" and it was fabricated out of solid cherry hardwood...talk about beautiful! And, expensive.
Davo
It looks like that concrete stacking stone to me. It mimics real stone until you look up close.
They use a lot of it around here.
It comes in a box, (8 sqft or so) either all one size or an assortment that you mix and match. I have a box or two around here. I used it for flower bed edging stuck to a poured concrete curb.