Exterior wall culture stone construction technology
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Cultured Manufactured Stone Veneer Products Construction Guide

Building code requirements vary due to different areas. Local authorities to consult the local building code requirements. Please carefully read all the installation requirements before you start using culture stone, culture brick products. Please comply with security rules.


Work area to prepare

Culture stone estimates required
Determined by measuring the area of ​​the wall to the required number of cultural stone products. Multiplying the measured length and height, minus the area of ​​the windows and doors, the result is the desired area of ​​the plane of culture stone. Determined by measuring the size of the center line of the corner to the amount of the required corner culture stone. The last area to be occupied with the desired plane culture stone minus the plane of the corner area, shall be required for the actual area of ​​the flat culture stone. Should be considered part of the loss due to cutting and repair surface.

Tools Required
Wide mouth pliers trimming hammer or nail gun carts and gray rake fender and spatula triangular trowel trowel with silicon carbide or diamond blade circular saw, table saw or grinder / hatchet protective eye protective mask level meter metal seams dressing tool or a wooden stick
Mud bag small broom

Surface of the mortar surface preparation
A. Mortar ingredients
1. Pre-mixing: 1:1.2 cement mortar.
2. The mortar color: iron oxide color (needed).

B. Weather protection layer
According to local building codes, the protective layer should conform to UBC Standard 14-1: rain building slate of kraft paper or saturated asphalt felt, or ASTM Standard D226 No. 15 felt.
Note: The weather protective layer must be used in all internal and external mortar, masonry, concrete or stucco building part except.

C. Metal lath
1. The expansion of at least 205 pounds of galvanized metal lath (diamond mesh). Internal use black metal slats.
2. Or 18 galvanized the preparation of steel mesh.
3. Results for metal buildings and open piling.
4. Or other regulations acceptable mesh or slats.

D. Fastener
1. Galvanized nails, cramp, concrete nails.
2. Gypsum Company size 31mm model S-12 flat head Oversize tiles screw (for the installation to the metal surface).
E. Other materials
The breather device (if necessary) of the silyl group.
Product preparation
In the workplace will be rolled out as wall hangings panel culture stone to choose from a variety of sizes, the beginning and colors. In the overall design, planning some kind and contrast. Large-scale cultural stone the small culture stone with thick mix with Pu. The culture stones from different boxes during the installation of an appropriate mix of the completion of the project to obtain the desired balance effect.

Mortar
Note: the climatic conditions
In hot or dry weather, the back of each culture stone should be slightly water spray or brush wet, so as to effectively avoid excessive draw moisture from the mortar. If installed in the wet concrete, masonry, or having the scratches on the surface layer on the substrate, before the use of mortar should also substrate surface wet.

Use in freezing temperatures should be prevented, since the mortar can not be properly molded at ice temperature. Antifreeze material can not be mixed in the mortar to reduce its freezing point.

A. Mixed mortar / thin mortar
Use pre-mixed into the mortar, so that the moisture consistent. Too dry and crumbly mortar will not provide a suitable adhesive force. But can not be too diluted.

B. Stucco colors
Colored mortar to set off the colors of culture stone. Recommends using the produced crude culture stone mortar joint materials.

C. Facilities deal with good surface rubbed mortar
Use the spatula or triangular trowel (pictured) in the treatment good surface rubbed facilities thickness of 12mm to 20mm mortar. Each operating area should not exceed the effective work area (0.5-1m2), so that the mortar will not install culture stone molding.


Cultured Manufactured Stone Veneer Installation Instructions

A. Starting point
Wiping mortar facilities and installation of culture stone, from the bottom up construction, most of the models of culture stone from the top down construction avoids mortar splashed down in the culture stone, has been completed. Laminated-type culture stone should be bottom up construction.

II. The width of the binding sites
In order to obtain the most natural visual effects, the width of the joint by the the culture stone body block size. The average width 12mm-20mm.

III. Install culture stone
Pressed in the mortar bed culture stone culture stone edge, and some mortar emerge. The pressure exerted on culture stone should ensure sufficient binding force. And ensure that the mortar in the the culture stone surface completely covered. The mortar applied to the entire back surface of the culture stone (Figure).
Must pay attention to the to avoid mortar dirty culture stone surface. Once soiled the culture stone's surface, must wait until brittle then sweep
Broom removed.

1. First install the corners culture stone
If you want to use the corners culture stone, you should first install. Pay attention to the corners with culture stone has a long and short sides, alternately in the opposite direction on the installation (Figure).
2. Plane with cultural stone
Corners culture stone in place, corner level should be gradually piled up to the wall of the middle plane with culture stone (Figure).

IV. Maintain uniform culture stone mortar gap between
Each block culture stone close to ensure the uniformity of the gap therebetween. Needed at the mortar joints culture stone cutting and trimming. Then fill in the rest of the gap at the small culture stone cutting and trimming (Figure).

V. Cutting and trimming
Culture stone cutting and trimming to suit the installation requirements. Can use a wide mouth the pliers or hatchet (Figure). May be able to find the box rupture culture stone, the broken culture stone can be used to fill the gap of bulk culture stone. To be more beautiful, you should use the mortar to repair the cutting edge. If possible, when within sight above may be the cutting edge is placed above the cutting edge when the line of sight to the following can be placed underneath. Must wear protective glasses when cutting and trimming.

Six. The mortar joint tamponade seams and trimming seams
1. With mortar joint tamponade seams
In addition to the requirements mortar, you can also use the the gray seam agent to filling seams (Figure).
2. Trimming seams
When the gray sewn seams harden or thumbprint dries (molding time with the wall surface and climatic conditions), should use wooden or metal seams trimming tools outlined. Flatten the excess mortar in culture stone around the caulking and sealant edge (Figure).
3. Completion of clean-up
After the end of the day, or when the mortar has enough molding, the final step is to sweep away or brush away loose mortar and a clean culture stone surface. Do not use a wet brush to deal with the mortar joints, because it will stain the surface and are difficult or impossible to handle clean. Do not use the acid or acid-based products.


Other instructions

Note:
When using a series of shale, laminated-type culture stone, castle-type culture stone, should ensure that the seams straight line.

Shale series of laminated-type culture stone, the wind erosion Series laminated culture stone, castle-type culture stone installation instructions

Tight joints
(Seams without mortar) with close-fitting way to install these products.
A. Starting point
The first step-by-step installation starting from the bottom upward. Each began to install laminated of cultural stone or castle-type culture stone member. Continue the level of the commencement and completion of each process to start the next step. Needed culture stone member cut to the appropriate size of the end of the puzzle in the completed area or the top (Figure). Ready inspection of the mounting portion of the horizontal line and aligned position.


II. The first the installation corner with Cultured Manufactured Stone Veneer need corners culture stone, construction should be installed in the first culture of the corner stone, then installed adjacent plane with culture stone. Note that the corners culture stone has the long and short sides. Should be used alternately in the opposite direction.

III. Install culture stone
Forced each culture stone pressed in the mortar bed, mortar mortar groove being squeezed out at the edges around the back of the member. The pressure member should be to ensure sufficient binding force. Check the horizontal and vertical lines. The mortar also can wipe facilities throughout the back.

IV. To install plane with cultural stone
Splicing pattern of each process, the corner of the first piece of culture stone in place, then they should be installed the plane with cultural stone. Before installing the next one, a former culture stone edge around too much mortar with a trowel, shovel go. This will help with the next one adjacent cultural stone as close as possible (see Figure). The selection of the appropriate length of the member so that the vertical seams is not a straight line.

V. Cutting and trimming
Use a dry fitted with silicon carbide or diamond blade table saw, circular saw or grinder culture stone horizontal and vertical cutting (see Figure).
Will produce dust, the cutting should be done outdoors. Cutting culture stone products, always wear eye protection and protective masks. You can also use the wide mouth pliers or hatchet for cutting and forming.

Six. Other cutting and installation information
The finished edge --- finished edge on the surface.
The cutting edge --- the cutting edge is placed before the step.

VII. Trimming seams
Shale series of laminated-type culture stone, on the the wind erosion Department cases laminated type culture stone the castle culture stone design easy installation, and can be made without mortar joints between culture stone. This reduces the cutting stuffer thin mortar or trimming seams the time required.

VIII. Surface cleaning
Note that to avoid mortar dirty culture stone surface. Once the dirty surface, must wait until the mortar brittle and then use a small broom to remove. Do not use a wet brush or wire brush. Joints between culture stone carefully, so that after the completion seem pretty professional. Do not use the acid or acid-based products.




Prompt

Wash
The dirt by powerful granular soap solution or detergent and water, clear with a hard brush wash. Reuse of water to flush immediately. Do not use a wire brush, because it will damage the surface. Not using an acid or acid-based products to clean. Do not use high pressure washing equipment.

Salt and used for deicing chemicals
All concrete and masonry susceptible to salt against culture stone products can not guarantee against salt or other used to

Snow removal or deicing chemicals infringement. Therefore, it is not near the site of cultural stone products for deicing chemicals.

Wear and tear
All natural stone will be worn. Will arise from time to time in the culture stone surface wear. This helps the culture stone products exhibit natural characteristics. Some signs of wear through the cleaning method to be cleared.

Pan flowers
Pan-spend phenomenon is due to a water-soluble salt by means of infiltration of water vapor inside the wall is deposited on the surface of the decorative mortar, concrete, bricks and other masonry products. Pan spent phenomenon rarely appear on the surface of the culture stone products. The culture stone completely dry, you should wait for the elimination of the Pan-spend phenomenon, hard scrub with a stiff brush and clean water culture stone surface. Then thoroughly rinsed. Can not use a wire brush. For more thorny issues Pan spend, can be used by a white household vinegar and five parts water dubbed solution fully scrub. For unusually difficult cleaning problems, please contact the vendor of the local culture stone products.

Swimming pool
Cultured Manufactured Stone Veneer products should not be used under the water, such as for decorative pool. Discoloration of the chlorine and other chemicals will make culture stone and other masonry products.