How To Install Stacked Stone On A Curve

How To Install Stacked Rock On Curved Walls

1 of large things that makes our stacked stone stone panel products so easy to work with is that its already been pre-assembled into a highly calibrated gear up to install unit, that is more comparable to tile than to traditional loose paw stacked rock. The panel system provides a lot of benefits, main amid them the power for less skilled labor, including DIY installation of stacked rock by homeowners. One of the drawbacks of the panel arrangement is the lack of flexibility of the console, in detail when working on curved or radius walls. However, there are lots of great ways products like ours can be used on curved walls, and so let's take a look at our guidelines for using stacked stone on radius walls.

Stride ane: Know the Radius of Your Wall

The first footstep in understanding if a stacked stone tile will work on a curved wall is to know what the actual curve,or radius of the wall is. Radius is actually a unit of measure, usually given in feet, and expresses the length from the eye of a circle to the border. In other words, if yous took a curved wall, and extended that curve out using an imaginary line to complete a full circumvolve, the radius measurement would exist how far it is from the centre of the circumvolve to whatever indicate on your wall.

Stacked Stone Curved Wall University Lounge

If you're working with a gear up of construction documents or blueprints, the radius is oft called out, or tin can be calculated via many CAD programs. If you're retrofitting an existing wall with stacked stone you tin can tie a cord between the two ends of the curved wall, measure the length of the string and the farthest point between the cord and the wall, and using your high schoolhouse trigonometry, or more likely one of many easy to use online calculators, calculate the radius.

Our rule of pollex is that any wall with a radius of twenty feet or greater can use our rock panel products without modifying the product. For walls with radius measurements less than 20 feet, multiple options are explored below.

Step 2: Understand Installation Techniques

For walls with radius measurements less than 20 anxiety the primary methods for making stacked stone panels "fit" is to either cutting down the panel into smaller sections and / or cutting the edges of each panel for a tighter fit.

Stacked Stone Curved Garden Wall

Norstone Stone Panels have a standard orientation of 6" tall x 24" wide, so the first step when working on a radius wall less than xx feet would involve cutting the panels in half (6"x12"). This introduces twice as many vertical seams into the job which allows the tile to be more flexible along a curved wall since most of the bend is accommodated where two panels come together.

In add-on to cutting the the panels down in size, the vertical edges can be cutting with a miter saw to come together more than tightly along a tightly curved wall. This takes the right tools, and some skill and patience, but when done correctly on tight radius work like stacked stone pool and spa surrounds, the results are amazing. The garden wall in the photo above was installed personally the CEO of a major tile distribution company in Florida who has a lifetime of tile setting experience, and who personally attested to the ease of installation of Norstone stone panels in radius applications.

Step three: Understand Convex vs Concave

An important part of installing stacked stone on a curved wall is knowing if the rock is going on the convex or the concave side of the curved wall. Convex means the surface curves outward while concave means the surface curves inward. When working on a concave wall, the front of the stacked stone panels are going to be the tightest and potentially demand some careful trimming for a precise tight fit. Convex is just the opposite in that the back of the panels might need trimming for a clean fit.

Stacked Stone Concave and Convex Curved Wall Outdoor Hot Tub

Pace 4: Consider Alternatives

If you take a wall with a tight radius, but absolutely love the look of stacked rock in the space, the one alternative nosotros see many clients go with is flipping the orientation of the console to half-dozen" broad and 24" tall. While this definitely changes the look of production, accentuating the long linear experience vertically instead of horizontally, the 6" width of the panel allows for a far more flexible installation. Don't be afraid to think outside the box with your next stacked stone installation!

Vertical Stacked Stone Curved Wall

Radius walls are in many means a great design dissimilarity to the traditional flat walls that stacked stone is unremarkably associated with, and could be a peachy feature in your adjacent interior or outside project. If yous take specific questions about how stacked stone will install on your radius wall or even just demand a piddling assistance getting started, contact us today and one of our team members, highly skilled in both design and technical expertise, can help out. Until then, keep an heart out for curved walls in your twenty-four hours to twenty-four hour period and just call up how much better they'd await covered in stacked stone!