Guide to Installing Stack Stone

This is the step-by-step guide to safely installing all Stack Stone panelling using StoneClip.

Both the types of Stack Stone shown in this example weigh in at 6.8kgs/piece/600mm x 200mm =55.6 kilos per m2 = well outside the parameters set by the glue manufactures (eg, Ardex, which is 32-38kgs/m2).

Picture 1:

Showing marking for the cuts in the stone panel to position StoneClip. They are 150mm from each end, but may vary according to the pattern you lay.

They are always cut in the middle of the bed - in this case, 10mm from the back edge, as the stone panels are around 20mm thick.

This allows you to use a 15mm StoneClip for fixing width.

Picture 2:

The tools and table, a piece of carpet and 2 only concrete blocks, a water bottle and a 100mm angle grinder + a ruler and pencil.

Picture 3:

Shows the two slots have been cut with an electroplated diamond blade using a little water to keep it cool and to stop the stone from exploding from the heat of the dry cutting.

Picture 4:

Shows rebates in the cuts in the panel of Stack Stone and StoneClip inserted. Rebate was cut with angle grinder. If this is done by a Router with a 6mm electroplated diamond round bit, a far neater result is achieved.

Picture 5:

Shows cut on the LHS is blown out when not cut with water. The cut on the RHS was cut with water.

Picture 6:

Shows two pieces of Stack Stone walling with StoneClips.

Picture 7:

Shows the two panels installed on top of each other and no outward signs of being secured by StoneClip other than the blow out on the top LHS of the top panel (quartzite).

Picture 8:

Shows StoneClips ready for fixing to the substrate. Fixing pins are different for each type of substrate.

Important Information

If StoneClip is positioned at the top of each 2nd row, you will have 6 StoneClip fixing per m2, but if you position at the top of each 3rd row this comes down to 3 StoneClip fixings per m2.

The number of fixings per m2 shown above are minimum required and are only a guide, but if used in conjunction with a good polymer fortified cement based fix, good results should be achieved if the product and the substrate are both cleaned prior to fixing into place.

The cost of including StoneClip into your job is not a dear one for if you add 6 StoneClips per m2, this comes in at $ 33.00 retail per m2, of course if it is 3 StoneClips per m2 it is only &$16.00/m2 retail/m2.

The StoneClips are sold in boxes of 36 including fixing pins to suit concrete substrate.

The big advantage of including the StoneClip into the fixing operation is that you DON'T have to worry anymore about the product (wall being clad) going drummy or cascading off the wall as you are installing it or later on causing an unsafe environment.

If the area being clad is a display wall it can be fully mechanically fixed and if need be pulled down later on, simply by the retraction of the pins from the substrate.

The size of the StoneClips are:

15 mm suitable for panels up to 20mm thick and allowing for 5mm of fix to be applied to the back of the panel to be fixed.

20mm StoneClips suit up to 30mm product.

28mm StoneClips suit up to 40mm product.

33mm StoneClips suit up to 50mm product.
 

The type of fixing required for what type of substrate you are fixing to are shown on the Clips Calculation page and the Installation Instructions page.

The StoneClips are available at Agents and Stockists in QLD, NSW, VIC, SA.