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Salvaged (?) stone for house

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  • 29-08-2005 5:08pm
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    smadger
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    I've seen some nuce houses done with stone that has been reclaimed from old farm sheds, walls, etc.

    Is this what is known as salvaged stone, or is there some other name for it.

    How would I go about sourcing this? I'm in the Louth/Meath area.

    Cheers


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    gibo_ie
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    hey smadger,
    A lot of this stone is not actually reclaimed but a "fake" look. It is called Hallmark stone and you can get it from Roadstone - Slane/Drogheda or even Oldbridge concrete (i think) on the boyne road along the canal to Drogheda..
    Good luck with the venture.


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    rooferPete
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    Hi smadger,

    Cut stone can be bought from salvage yards and stone masons, being in the Louth / Meath area you may have seen the signs up along the road offering stone for sale.

    As gibo said there are fake stone systems available from the companies he mentioned also I think Fernhill do a lookalike system.

    .


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    Debracd
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    Posted in wrong place!!!!


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    flocker
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    Smadger,

    l have seen samples at a show of Fernhill stone. They seem to have a very comprehensive range both in colours and texture.
    They had a CD showing their range and finished examples. I think they have an office at Glaslough Co. Monaghan. Tel 047 88015.
    Can't remember the cost per m/2 but it was a couple of years ago now.


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    flocker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭flocker


    Found the CD www.fernhillstone.com/home.htm for the online catologue.


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    smadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭smadger


    Thanks everyone. Will check out Fernhill all right.

    Have seen some Hallmark stuff. Was originally interested, but the more I see of it the more 'false' it looks. Must keep an eye out for houses with Fernhill on them to see how they worked out in reality.


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    jman0
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    At risk of being a little off-topic, i've seem some stone and brick work that i thought was fake but someone else insisted that it was real. And now after seeing some disaster photos from america recently, i think i know what i'm looking at. There's some genuine stone and/or brick that's actually used like sort of facade, meaning it's not supporting any weight and is actually set against a backdrop of plywood. I've seen it on houses where they put this real stone/brick facade to make it appear like the foundation of a timber framed house was actually stone.
    Is there a word of this type of thing?
    I actually had a good row with my brother over this one day.


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    smadger
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    I'm no expert, but I thought this was the way most modern 'stone' houses are built. The actual supporting structure is of block (or wood) and then the stone is added as a separate outer layer at a later stage. The builder builds the house and the stone mason comes along near completion and puts the outer layer on.

    I've seen quite a few go up like this recently.


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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    jman0 wrote:
    At risk of being a little off-topic, i've seem some stone and brick work that i thought was fake but someone else insisted that it was real. And now after seeing some disaster photos from america recently, i think i know what i'm looking at. There's some genuine stone and/or brick that's actually used like sort of facade, meaning it's not supporting any weight and is actually set against a backdrop of plywood. I've seen it on houses where they put this real stone/brick facade to make it appear like the foundation of a timber framed house was actually stone.
    Is there a word of this type of thing?
    I actually had a good row with my brother over this one day.

    Cladding.


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