Finishing stone arches

Decorative stone - a godsend for the designer-finisher.Finishing stone arched openings under acceptable for a country style of Provence, loft, country, hi-tech, etc.With a rugged and uneven surface texture, artificial stone is easy to process.Covered under the stone arches are found in urban apartments, and in the country houses.

Make yourself an arch made of stones, the same as in the photo, it is possible to obtain a good result is required to strictly adhere to the lining technology.

Benefits arches of stone

The produced decorative stone arches conveys the exact coloring and structure of wild natural mineral.Big advantage is that working the back side of the stone is adapted to overlay the adhesive mixture.On sale you can find specially processed stone for framing arched openings.

• Behind the arch, stone-paved, easy to care.Suffice nonabrasive detergent and warm water.
• Technique styling simple, and expensive part is small.Stoned arch stone on their own forces.
• choice of materials for the arches of stone is very large.The range includes the most beautiful and popular simulation minerals.

Preparation for installation of decorative stone on the arch

Of the tools necessary to:

• mixer building and drill;
• water level, measuring tape and a plumb;
• turboshlifovalnaya machine with a cutting disc;
• steel trowel, comb trowel, rubber spatula;
• trowel and a rubber mallet, rasp, wire cutters or pliers;
• syringe for jointing and jointing blade;
• wooden or plastic wedges - or thick cross brace for joints.

consumables applies adhesive decorative stone.Choosing the glue, read the manual time setting glue, correction time for stone tiles and recommended weight mothers.Inlay stone arches laying involves not only vertically, but also facing the vaults.In this case, the weight of the stones will affect the adhesive layer at the gap.High-quality adhesives for arches, lined with stone - the most important component.To work on the design of the arch stone still required:

• grout suitable color;
• primer adhesive;
• nail decorative stone;
• water repellent.

repellent - additive for deep penetrating concrete walls.In contrast to the waterproofing, water-repellency allowing the surface to "breathe".Work on finishing arches decorative stone carried out at an air temperature not below 5 C.

Preparation arch to the wall with decorative stone

Before laying on the arched doorway, it is necessary to clean and level.The surface is cleaned first arch with a steel spatula and then with a stiff brush with wire bristles.

1. putty overwritten and smoothes irregularities in the field of decorative stone fixing.For alignment arch arc plane is used a flexible rubber spatula.
2. working areas arches stripped surface with sandpaper and soaked the ground.The primer binds fine particles, and on a surface of any decoration is kept tight.
3. concrete or plastered with cement mortar, brick arches covered adgeziatsionnym ground.At higher ambient temperature or humidity is recommended to arch surface lightly moisten.
4. Arch drywall decorated with light marks of finishing stone.The surface of the arch of the FCL made of moisture-resistant material is treated with primer.
5. checked before starting work and prepared decorative tile under a stone.tile packages are opened and checked for the tone changes.In any case, the tiles from different packs desirable to mix.Sort the tiles in size so that the impression of a natural stone wall.
6. On the reverse side of the tiles should not be thin foam coating.This coating is called "cement milk", and it worsens agdeziyu tiles.To not glued tiles fell off, remove the "cement milk" with a wire brush.

laying decorative stone arched doorway on

1. Clay is mixed in a bucket mixer according to the instructions.The adhesive mass should not be too liquid.Stir not all the glue immediately, but small portions for 2 - 3 kg at a time.In operation, the adhesive mixture in the bucket periodically stirred with a mixer and a slightly moistened if necessary.
2. Laying start from the bottom up.The first stone was laid at the junction of walls and arches.At the transition of the opening in the arc arches, tile trimmed angle grinders and matched either pliers or wire cutters.The end sections are adjusted radially rasp.
3. trowel adhesive mixture is applied to the Wallpapers section of the arch.Comb trowel adhesive on the site leveled to a thickness of 5 - 10 mm.With vertical laying of glue made waves in the horizontal direction.
4. also applied on tile adhesive layer is 5 - 10 mm, and in this case the waves being made vertical.Crossing the adhesive mass waves fill the void.Tile pressed tightly against the wall with his hands and inciting a rubber mallet.Speaking on the perimeter adhesive is removed with a flat trowel.Tapping is determined by the absence of voids.Voids can cause condensation to form under the tiles.In case of detection of voids tiles removed, cleaned of glue and re-installed.
5. For jointing and decorative seams between the tiles artificial stone, mounted wedge or cross struts.After curing the adhesive mass and tile fixing spacers are removed and grouts are decorated with seams.
6. most time-consuming process in the wall of arches is pasting decorative stone arch in the doorway.To fix the ornamental stone used wooden spacers and adhesive tapes.Dove grab glued stone on vertical planes, go to the radius of the inner vault arches.
7. stick the first horizontal row of decorative stone on the inclined plane, fix it with tape.Push the board on top of adhesive tape and place the spacer resting on the opposite side of the opening.After setting, proceed to the installation of the next row.Adhesive tape is removed after the full completion of paving stone.

Fancy ornamental stone joints and final finishing

Fancy ornamental stone seams requires attention and care.Filling joints selected depending on the taste of the owner.For perfectly executed stone arches selected contrasting color grout, if the objective is to mask minor defects, chosen companion trowel mix color or tone of the stone.

1. syringe filled with thick grout, which gently squeezed into the gaps between the stones.Try not to fall on the face of the decorative stone.Remove from the rough surface of the trowel mix is ​​problematic.Seams are not filled completely, 3 - 4 mm up to the front surface of the stone.This creates the visual effect of the bump masonry.After 20 - 30 minutes on a path smoothed seams jointing spatula.
2. After drying, finished with a decorative stone arch washed with warm soapy water and degreased.For degreasing use alcohol or acetone solvents.Then, the opening is covered with acrylic paint on water-based.Select transparent or semi-matt lacquer.Apply lacquer by brush or spray can.

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