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To the skilled masonry contractor, now a variety of rocks, this is the most pain in the butt rock to lay, one at a time. River rock is probably the easiest, the fastest. A good masonry contractor can only lay about 100 square foot of river rock, this stuff, real time, maybe 50 square feet a day. Well this panel is 15, these 3 panels are 50 square foot. That’s all you’re getting. I’ll install these in minutes and they’re stronger and when done it’s a monolithic system not a segmented.
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And again it’s monolithic. Instead of having a bunch of little bricks or rocks that are separate, that are one type of mud and mortaring them in with a different type of mud and then grouting over them with still yet another type of mud, you’ve got an expansion and contraction problem we talked about with the other rock companies that are out there. Where you have 2 different muds , they expand and contract at different rates and sure enough, soon enough, they will delaminate and they’re going to crack. This won’t do this to you.
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The interlocking corner. Now corners, inside and out, are one of the biggest pains in the bottom that you’re ever going to. It takes more time to do corners than it does any other. The field you fly through it.
We’ve created in several different styles of rock, the interlocking corners inside and outside. We’ve got ledge caps for trim, we’ve got door and window trims for side. We’ve got a lot of different accessory pieces, but this stuff installs quick, real quick and mudless in most all cases.
The skill level of these 2 gentlemen, these guys make rock and they make all kind of rock and they’re skilled at it, but using 2 guys that are less paid than them, which what we’re looking for, but some less skilled employees can install this without even thinking about it. There’s no real skill in it. Like a masonry contactor that can lay rock as good as this, you’re paying high dollar and he’s not able to produce much that quick.
What I want these guys to do right now is just slide this together and I got those 4 inch screws which are galvanized or stainless. You don’t want to use a non galvanized or a because you know you’re going to have a problem with rust, potentially, because they are the heads are going to be sunk into this and touched up with a little bit of our grout mix so you don’t see the screw head. We’re going to screw right through the rock because in the river rock panels we generally in most cases will go in the grout joint and we’ll just touch it up with a little bit of grout. In other words the screw is just beneath the surface. If it’s not stainless steel or galvanized it’s going to rust and it’s going to show bleed through the surface. Now that joint just, boom, sweet together. And right now, depending on the squareness of the floor and the walls and the plumb, you know, you may have a little bit of gap there. We can either grind and make the fit better, if we have a tweak, or we can come back in, and we’re going to do this on several of our rocks, we’re going to take our texture mix throw it in that joint, let it tack up for about 10 minutes and just strike it, carve it out and it you’ll see is seamless.
When we get done with this we want this to look like a masonry contractor came out and laid one stone at a time. These 2 guys within 5 minutes will have done what one guy will take all day to do. But yet the strength the longevity, everything about it.
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The other thing about cultured stone is you’ll see, they have about 8 different styles of rock, but in each style they have about 8 different colors. Now it your design is this color and you’re trying to match that color and you don’t find that color in what they offer. We can make this any color you want and we can do it real fast. It’s a really fast process and long lasting on top of that and pennies on the dollar as fas as total cost.
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Again, notice what we’ve done here. Because this is drywall, we’re inside. Normally we’re on an exterior wall and in most cases on a framed building it’s plywood. That means I can drop a screw anywhere I want and I’m going to hit something. Notice the studs here, this is drywall, it’s not going to take a screw, it’s not going to hold. They’ve located the studs so you can actually on a 16 inch or a 2 foot you can screw into studs I prefer the sheeting of plywood if it’s there, if it’s not you have to find the studs. Metal studs, wood studs, if you didn’t have sheeting you can still install this. Typically I would want about 8 screws in this panel and that’s going to hold it. Now you’re seeing these screw heads and we’re actually going to take care of them with a little bit of our muds later as we go through this process. Once I get some of this stuff installed then we’re going to go back and start mudding different aspects to it and finishing.
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In the case of this, right now, typically this is 2 inches of relief and this particular stone is popped out. You see where he put that, a 4 inch screw would have definitely hit that stud. You have a ½ inch of drywall you have probably an inch, so you have enough there to bite with a normal screw.
In the cases where you don’t we’ve got these lags that are, well I can get these up to 8 inches long if I had need of it. You don’t need that, but if you did, it’s there. Again we’re going to cover over this. You don’t want to see this when you’re done. Can I have a fender washer over there?
A lot of times, like, if you look at Skyler’s, we’re going to go over to Skyler’s house and we actually have this on the website, we took a chimney of his that was old brick and we pinned a 4 by 8 sheet with 4 lag bolts right through the rock with a washer to give us. The head of this is kind of small, and we went one size up, this is ¼, I think we went 3/8.
Any rate, that can pull out so to give it a little more head we put the fender washer on, we put a lead anchor on there and we drilled though there, stuck the brick and tightened it up and sucked it up. We had 4 of these. These are big. These will hold about 600 pounds where a screw only holds about 200 pounds. You only need about 4 of these for a 4 by 8 panel.
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