When to Install Stone Veneer Siding. If stone siding has started to take off in your neighborhood or if you’re looking for a home improvement project with a high return of investment, then it ...

Stone veneer siding is increasingly popular choice among homeowners, but experts say it is more often than not improperly installed and those hard-to-find installation defects can cause tens of ...

ASK THE BUILDER | Some come as panels that you screw to the wall. Others are individual pieces of stone you adhere to an interior or exterior wall with Portland-cement-based thinset.

Just a few miles from my home, a new building sports a mortarless stone veneer that’s about 1½ inches thick. The pieces of natural granite have a random texture that’s exposed to the weather.

When masonry veneer has a vertical transition to something like wood trim, windows, or other siding materials, it should have a 3/8" gap left between the two different materials.

Stone veneer, major failures. I recently had an informative email exchange with a past client that highlighted the discovery of some especially nasty water damage behind the stone siding at her ...