How to Cover a Concrete Wall with Stone Veneer | This Old House
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- This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook dresses up a block wall with stone-veneer panels. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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How to Cover a Concrete Wall with Stone Veneer | This Old House
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I am the owner of the wall and can say 8 years later it is fine nothing has fallen off or broken and the cost to do the job was perfect 0 dollars
Dennis Tavares, good for you.
So they did this in 2009?
Since you already had a masonry wall I think I would have used brick ties, about 4 per 16 inch and 2 per 8 inch. I think that's great that the wall hasn't fallen apart but I wouldn't have done your job without the brick ties, just to cover myself
and took 8 years to produce it. Sure Dennis.
Looks beautiful!! Good job Dennis and good to hear from you.
I have to smile at the comments on fake stone.. no it is real stone individual stone pieces put in a panel and once again again nothing has failed on the wall 8.5 years later::thank you Roger and Ask This Old House
Dennis Tavares half these people have never heard of ledge stone. Lmao
Looks real nice!
I gotta say ur a badass 4reals. I respect an Alpha Male putting in work cuz I'm a DIY type guy also.
Dennis, its nice to hear the job was free, were the materials also free? Just curious. It looks amazing btw.
It’s real stone, but the proper term is ‘natural stone *veneer*’.
Not to be critical.. but there are also a lot of vertical running joints going up the wall in close proximity.
More proper masonry is to cut or make adjustment to avoid repeat, joints like that. I get the idea of keeping it simple... I’m just saying, so others are aware. This was laid more like tile than real stone, imho.
With veneer stone, you can get away with it. But if it was actually real, full thickness, ledge stone, it would be considered a weak joint pattern. The exception would be if a repeat ‘grid’ pattern was being used.
I’m saying this because I was a masonry contractor for over 40 years, from a family of Italian masons and terrazzo workers. In a ‘real’ stone wall, a close vertical joint layout like that would be susceptible to cracking along the joint. There should always be sufficient seperation and distance on a running bond like that. In this case, simply flipping the panels over in spots could have eliminated that.
Other than that, it looks very nice. Good job. 👍🏼
I love the finished look! Roger is one of the greats! I watched this 5 years ago when they posted it, and was happy to see it in my recommended videos today. I always notice something i missed the first time when i re-watch This old house videos! - I love them all! :)
We want the mortah to have the consistency of peanut buttah
And that's hwaf an ench ov pourtlend mortaw
+Cambone13 Hahahahaha!
+Bobby Taylor Hahahahaha!
I think I got the instructions wrong. I kept putting the mortar into 1 pot and the sand into 3 pots. Not working.
No. It's cause you're using "mortar". You need to use "mortah". It's a different thing.
to do this job for rogah you will need:
stone veneeah,mortah,wotah and hammah.
Roger, Norm, Tommy & Rich are God's in this show. I am amazed at how perfect their calculations are, how flush their end products become and how easily they explain stuff to us.
Thanks for the share! Gave us lots of awesome ideas we can do for our dull and very large walls. This video also was very informative and gives a grasp of DIY. 👍🏼
Hoff an inch? That’s not on my tape measure! Lol
Great show guys👍🏻
Hi Roger, more than 2.7 mil people have watched this show, amazing, you doing a good job mate,good on ya, greetings from Sydney.
That's awesome I learn it to help a friend family! Thank you for your generosity...
There are some scratch coat mixes that are made to go over paint. As long as it is not a high gloss...it works really well. I think it has special modifiers in it that bite into the paint. I have 1,300lbs of stone veneer in my living room all the way to my cathedral ceiling on a cement block wall that was skim coated and painted when i first moved in.
superb vid -- details are explained and it's concise! thank you!!
the classic roger enthusiasm. hope he gets like this again.
Roger is a smart and generous man.
Exactly been doing the same prep for a walkout basement but got paint to remove. Used the gel stuff but needs more and power washer was doing great at @ 2300 psi but popped a whole in the hose. Just bought the darn thing but got new hose and going to tackle it again. Face shield helps but its a mess in a confine area. Going to put on that sticky bond when done. I got the older version of stone veneer mixed with different manufacturers for ledgestone(craigslist) but should be great once finished.
Awesome stuff, guys!
We love you Roger!
We built a cement block well house which protected the well and all its equipment very well during extreme weather then we used stone veneer over the cement block. It looked awesome.
Excellent work!!!
I am absolutely LIVING for these accents!
🤣❤️👍
Cheers. Enjoyed the video.
looks nice! great job!
Great information!
Wow! Awesome 😎🇺🇸!!
4:09 holds it at a 15-20° angle.
Great work, nice and clean 👍
Nicely done!
That looks really nice
Great job!
Wow, I normally like TOH videos, but this one was a shocker!
Nice video.
To make the last row of uneven cuts, you can place an uncut piece up against the top edge of the cap stone, then place another stone below it, mark it with a pencil, cut the piece and, viola, it's a perfect cut. Tile layers to this and it makes the job of cutting pieces faster and more accurate.
Nice work on the whal!
Awesome work
What an outstanding idea! Our builder left our foundation exposed and ugly! I would have to remove some dirt to get at it. I think I would have it done because I no longer have that kind of stamina to do big jobs. Thanks for the idea!
Looks great
I enjoyed this video and your country twang. Great job bro! You were technical and informative of your trade. Video production was good too.
That's not a country twang, that's a Boston accent.
“ let’s bond”
Haha
Any part of you that isn't wet? Let's bond!
awesome looks good
Awesome!
the best chanell, thanks of Brazil (Montenegro-RS - south Brazil)
Cara sabe onde axo esse moldes e fórmulas ??
Incredible 👍
Thanks great video
So look perfec ...good video
This video is good in that it shows you the general thought process and steps required to do this sort of project, but as many have pointed out some of the details are a bit iffy
looks neat" good job
Very good
Nice work
good job ,thank you
Beautiful.
Looks good
that's easy to do .you can see me do that in the chimney that's amazing job
Great. This little wall is stronger than the house ^^'
Nice wall
Beautiful
Did the wall get up and move to the other side of the garage???
Didn't you pay attention.
They already did the stripping and base mud on the left wall before Rodger showed up.
That way they could show a whole wall being done in a one day shoot.
Otherwise you would have to strip and mud one day and come back to do the tiling later.
Great video! I have a question, why can't you just use thinset to bond the stacked stone to the concrete wall? I plan on a similar project soon. One will be indoor and one will be outdoor. Both will be built roughly 4' high, and then covered with the stacked stone... I was under the impression I can use regular thinset mix. Would that not bond well enough?
It looks great. Any thoughts to doing a staggered joint with the pieces? Just wondering. When laying flooring, I would try to do this so repeating layout would not be apparent.
Man i miss doing this stuff!
keep bangin'
Doing the top course of tapered pieces before the cap would have been a lot easier to mark & cut.
My thoughts exactly. Scribing those cuts would have been lot simpler.
He most likely had wet cement to use up before he made all the cuts.
Good thought.
That's why they didn't show them cutting it. Because it was a total b****.I would have installed it, let it dry. And cut it off with a concrete demo saw. Have a man with a leaf blower behind me so I don't become a snowman
That's great
i love it, that's how my chimney looks like
Awesome, I knew all of this from Kirk On utube!
Awesome
good job
This gives me an idea 🤔
Don’t you just LOVE the way he says Mortar
stata feytaliZAAAA
Can someone recommend an adhesive/epoxy/mortar and grout good enough for extreme frost and thaw cycles? Im retiling my porch because it wasn't done correctly before and every year tiles will come off during winter. I live in southern Ontario, we can get nasty ice storms. Im using textured porcelain tiles on a large porch exposed to all the elements. Please advise.
I bought a refurbisher sander, Porter Cable, it's got some sweet sanding pads for everything, tough too, I would have added a plug on each wall an ran Led light under the cap stone lip on each side to show the wall off at night , an keep non driving people from hitting it,
Can you use Type S mortar? or does it require the special mix blend?
Does all the prep work, up to applying mortar on the wall, need to be done for a bare concrete wall?
Love your video, but any suggestions for a contractor who will do this here on long island NY----? Suffolk County-?
Want that done here, can't find anyone to help me get that going..... Please help.Thx.🤓
Massachusetts i can hear it anywhere i love it
I've never seen a project on This Old House that I could actually do.
Can you do this the same with a cinder block retaining wall or do I need to do anything different?
😅 LOL ED, YOU REALLY FUNNY, MY STOMACH SORE FROM LAUGHTAH
Powah Wahshing!
The when winter comes the ice is going to pry that right off.
nice bro
4:26 That *carpenter ant* wants in on the action
I have current photos of the wall 12/11/17 not one piece is missing from it or has ever fallen off
what stones were used?
Any links?Or do we have to take your word for it.lol
I did a wall on my barn 25 years ago and it's held up fine.
I believe the trick is that what we called Milk. It's the bonding
agent, expensive but it make the project last.
That wahl looks wicked haat.
what about exterior house walls , what pros or cons would be to use tiles instead of stone or other conventional cladding ?
Rest In Peace letter “R”, you will be missed!
Did Roger pass away?
He just doesn't say the letter "R". He might neveh say it again.
Hi, what do I need to do differently if I want to apply a veneer along the bottom of a cinder block foundation?
Did you take the shims out a day or two later after everything had set?
As a mason, this is tough to watch lol. Im glad it held up and nothing fallen off.
Why do you say that? I’m planning on putting the same kind of stone on a cement wall too.
Incredible acting. ""Roger, this is just amazing!" It moved me to tears....
I wanted to see how was the connection between the wall and the top. How it looks and and how can the top stay put strongly.
Do you have to wait a full day from mudding the wall to installing the veneer?
Could you do this same exact process for a cinderblock wall inside a basement?
The setting mortar was WAY to dry...You can tell the old guy worked with his hands for many years..:)
great idea
wait wrong guy
Yes it was
He pressed the first piece on the wall and the wall just laughed 😆
Waaaay too dry.
I wish you'd show the process of measuring, marking, and cutting the stone
I like the... super
This type of stone you use thin set same as you would tile. I've layed it loads.
Dont forget to caulk the bottom joint to protected from water as it penetrates the joint and freezing in the winter which will lead to detiriation.
it made me giddie
So what did you do with that gap between the tops after you got the inch overhang?
I have a very flat cement wall 6 metres by half metre high, do you think I might get away with adhering to to the wall with a silicone gun containing something designed to stick concrete and is a little flexible?