How To Cover A Brick Wood Siding With Stone

At the least you will need to apply a wet scratch coat to the brick before you install the veneer.

How to cover a brick wood siding with stone. The 1 by 6 treated pine deck boards on the bottom step had to be cut to fit around the bottom railing beam. Options for covering exterior brick. Mark the length of the brick wall with chalk every 24 inches. When you install siding over an existing brick masonry or stucco wall creating a level substrate.

Use a tape measure to measure the distance between each needed mark. We cut it into the same shape as the stringers except extended it all the way to the ground. After the wood risers and treads were all screwed in we finished the outsides with the same plytanium siding panel that we used for the porch skirting. Step 2 attach a 2 by 2 inch wood furring strip to the walls centered on each of the chalk marks.

This customer chose genstone to cover exterior brick because of the ease of installation. Yes you can install stone veneer over brick. As with other surfaces the brick must provide a stable surface for the veneer layer. You must apply a rigid sheathing material to the studs then secure the siding to the sheathing.