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   Guest_ | Dec 06, 1999 07:30am | #1

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   Check out http://www.culturedstone.com/indexframes.html

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   Guest_ | Dec 06, 1999 09:49pm | #2

   *A word of warning. Technically cultured stone will work fine for your gable end, however aesthetically you are taking a big risk. Fake stone is a reasonable facsimile of real stone and as a consequence looks heavy. Traditionally stone has been used as a compressive material held in place by gravity. When you suspend large qantities of stone it looks out of place. No matter how realistic the material looks it will look wrong. There is a house near me that has fake stone window surrounds with no connection to the ground. They just look stupid. If you use a fake material in a situation where the use of the real thing would be difficult or impossible you call attention to that material. Done deliberately this is deconstruction and can be quite powerful if skillfully executed. Done inadvertently it is kitsch.

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   Guest_ | Dec 06, 1999 10:37pm | #3

   *drvnputt said that he didn't want to build a ledger footing. I'm assuming he wants to do stone on the house's end wall and gable.You're right, rock floating up along the roof would look poor.

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   Guest_ | Dec 07, 1999 06:18am | #4

   *Thanks Ryan, I'll check out that site. Mike, I might have misled. I did mean the whole side of the gable end of the house, from the foundation to the eaves. I agree, doing the gable would be bogus. thanksRay

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   Guest_ | Dec 07, 1999 11:38am | #5

   *Good thought Mike.I've always had a pet peeve with the following:Stucco house, with a few random pieces of stone. Supposed to look like the stucco was parged over a stone wall, and is now breaking off in places. Kind of an old-world look. Problem is, the stone usually stands way proud of the plane of the stucco wall. Am I missing something? or just too picky.Adam