![]() ![]() While this requires a little more flexibility, this is an effective technique which ends up requiring a lot less work than other alternatives, and can be good for areas that only on occasion get cold weather, or in the early or late parts of the cold weather season where they might be able to find a good 7 day window to work in. If a creative solution to get the stone veneer installed before the cold weather hits isn’t in the cards, the two main options we advise our clients on is first to see if there’s any possibility they can find a 7 day period to get this material installed and cured without dipping below that 40 degree mark. Often times a project manager can get creative and have weather sensitive materials installed out of the traditional sequence, but before the cold weather sets in. As is the case with many things in life, prevention is the best solution in this situation. ![]() Sometimes you might find yourself staring down the barrel of a project that needs to be completed, but has complicating factors like an outdoor installation of stone veneer in the Fall or Winter. A cold weather installation, particularly one where the temperature can drop below 40 degrees Fahrenheit at any point, night or day, during a 7 day window after installation, risks freezing the moisture content in the setting material and stalling / stopping the curing process, resulting in a bond strength between stone and wall that might not be sufficient to hold the stone over the long run of an average installation.Īs you probably know, and maybe even the reason why you’re reading this article, construction time lines don’t always work out the way they were originally planned. The mortar is critically important because of the water content – which in an average / room temperature installation allows the setting material to cure along a prescribed time line, slowly drying out while allowing the other natural and chemical agents to fully cure and create a very strong bond with the stone. To understand more about why stone can’t be set below 40 degrees Fahrenheit you actually need to understand the properties of the mortar or thin set that’s being used to install the stone veneer, not the stone itself. Let’s dig into this topic and learn more about why it’s important to know about the cold weather installation procedures and what your options are. For the sake of defining what cold weather is, we’ll peg it as the ambient temperate of the installation being below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. For the record, we’re not talking about cozy stacked stone fireplaces on the interior of the home, but mainly for common exterior projects in northern climates. In the next video, we’ll look at how to take measurements to figure out how much stone you’ll need.As summer gives way to Fall and then Winter, one of the things we work with a lot of our clients on is understanding how stone veneer can be installed in cold weather climates. ![]()
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