Manufactured stone
Manufactured stone veneer and architectural concrete, cast in Jacó. Matching corner pieces across every line.
Natural stone
Costa Rican quarry stone cut to order: irregular, rectangular multi-use and thin veneer panels.
Manufactured stone veneer and architectural concrete, cast in Jacó. Matching corner pieces across every line.
Costa Rican quarry stone cut to order: irregular, rectangular multi-use and thin veneer panels.
The full step-by-step is on the main site — installation. This page covers the details that separate a wall that lasts from one that does not.
Cured, clean, flat and sound. Dust is the single most common cause of stone coming away later — more common than any adhesive problem.
Fit corners, then run flats into them. Doing it the other way round is what produces the cut-edge look that the corner pieces exist to avoid.
No grout on QuickFit, FastFit, ThinStone and FossilRock. Grout on Hackett and IrishStone. Optional but recommended on brick styles.
On natural stone, consider dry-stacking a rectangular format: grout is where staining and algae start, especially in tight joints.
Dry-lay a section on the ground before fixing anything, and alternate piece lengths so no pattern repeats. This is the step most often skipped and most often regretted.
Fixing to a dusty or uncured substrate. It is the main reason stone comes away later.
Yes, always — then work the flats into them.
Hackett and IrishStone. QuickFit, FastFit, ThinStone and FossilRock install with no grout.
Substrate preparation, adhesive choice, corner-first sequencing, grout strategy and curing for stone veneer installations in Costa Rica.
WhatsApp 8800-1221 — we would rather talk it through than have you buy the wrong material.
