When there is a desire and the ability to build your home and make a respectable facade decoration, they usually give preference to natural stone. This type of registration cannot be called budget, but it will definitely justify the invested funds. There are some features in the choice of natural stone for the base, they will be discussed below.
Cladding of the basement of the house with natural stone
So, let’s start with those qualities and characteristics that will be presented to finishing material.
- For obvious reasons, natural stone is chosen darker, because the base of the house is more characteristic of pollution. It is important to choose a frost -resistant, dense breed.
- Preference should be given to breeds of magmatic origin. They will adequately withstand temperature extremes, moisture, and clean them quite easy. Construction companies offer customers to choose a suitable version of natural stone among the list of the best applicants for the finish of the base: it can be granite and related breeds, labradite or gabbro.
- As a rule, the choice largely depends on the preferences of the customer and the design of the designer. However, if he fell on marble and granite, you will have to take into account a couple of nuances. This applies to the size of the stove: if its thickness does not exceed 1 cm, and the total area is about 0.4 m2, then the fastening is allowed only on the glue solution. If the size of the selected slab exceeds these parameters, you will have to use fasteners with the solution additionally with the solution.
Benching of a basement with natural stone: restrictions in construction
Sometimes the owners of completely presentable areas deliberately abandon natural stone in favor of artificial and cheaper materials for the basement. And the point here is not in savings. The stone can not always be used. For example, for facing the basement you took marble or dolomite, and quartzite or sandstone became natural stone for the wall itself. Be sure that in a few years the first problems will begin: some breeds relate to silicate, and the latter – to the carbonate, which will lead to the reaction between carbonates and silicic acid. So the neighborhood will have to be selected very carefully.
Another restriction regarding the masonry of natural stone lies in the correct distance between the plates for the finish of the base. It is necessary to take into account the ability of the material to expand and tighten. If you decide to lay out two breeds in the neighborhood at once, we take as a basis the distance between the slabs of the material in which the expansion coefficient will be large.
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