Advantages of Cultured Stone Over Natural Stone Veneers

Increasingly, Cultured Stone® by Boral is the first choice of home and business owners looking for a beautiful and economical cladding for interior or exterior walls, fireplaces, and vertical columns. Cultured Stone is durable and versatile, perfect for nearly any application.

Lighter weight and easier to install than natural stone products, cultured stone requires less cutting and shaping, thereby resulting in easier installation and less waste.

In the Rocky Mountain region, Boral’s Cultured Stone is sold and marketed by ProStone Systems of Denver and Salt Lake City.

Colors and Textures of Cultured Stone

To replicate the natural textures of natural stone, Boral production engineers cast molds of Cultured Stone from carefully selected real stone pieces. A broad range of color selections are created from Portland cement, natural aggregates, and iron oxide pigments to create a perfect match for natural stone veneers. Boral produces Cultured Stone uses thousands of different molds to eliminate the possibility of duplication in a single lot. Even units produced in the same mold vary in color and highlights.

Boral manufactures Cultured Stone in 100 texture and color combinations.

Application of Cultured Stone

Properly applied, Cultured Stone, available from ProCoat in Denver, meets all applicable building code requirements. Details of code compliance are listed within the instructions for the product installation.

Cultured Stone should be applied over well-cleaned and structurally sound substrates of wood, concrete, wallboard, brick, or metal and secured with specified Portland Cement mortar.

For best results, installation should comply precisely to the product instructions.

Durability of Cultured Stone

Boral offers a 50-year warranty with properly installed of Cultured Stone. The material is resistant to rain, wind, and snow and will retain the original color much like natural stone. The only suggested maintenance is an occasional washing to remove dust and dirt to preserve the original beauty.

Affordability

Cultured Stone from Boral, available through ProCoat Systems, is easier to install and generates virtually no waste compared to natural stone and stone veneers. Although there is far less cutting and shaping required with Cultured Stone, standard cutting tools like masonry or circular saws are appropriate when needed.

Call ProCoat Systems of Denver

As a partner to the world’s most sophisticated cladding manufacturers, ProCoat Systems supplies builders, remodelers, and installer with long-lasting and beautiful products for new construction and remodel projects.

For information regarding the technical aspects and installation of Cultured Stone by Boral, phone the ProCoat professionals at 303-322-9009.

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Bring Real Drama to Your Remodeling Project with Boral Cultured Stone Veneers

The world’s leading producer of manufactured stone veneer products, Boral has developed its state-of-the-art Cultured Stone® to be a beautiful, durable, and practical solution for any architectural project. With a broad range of stone types, textures, and colors, Cultured Stone veneers perform well in both exterior and interior settings to provide an elegant, stately appearance.

Cultured Stone offers all of the aesthetic advantages of natural stone but is less costly and far easier to apply. The product is engineered to impart the same appearance and surface texture as natural stone products like marble, limestone, slate, sandstone and more. A range of colors and shapes will allow the homeowner to reimagine a fireplace, an interior wall, outdoor living areas, and more.

ProCoat Systems of Denver is a significant distributor of Boral Cultured Stone products.

Advantages of Boral Cultured Stone Veneers

Besides reducing the project cost and labor intensity required to install, Boral Cultured Stone veneers offer:

• Durability
• Low-maintenance
• Value
• Sustainability

Cultured Stone Options

Significant home remodeling projects usually begin with identifying a color scheme and combination of textures that are compatible with the homeowner’s vision. Using cultured stone veneer to clad a fireplace as a focal point for changing the mood of a room is typical. Whether the fireplace is covered with a stately light-colored stone or red brick veneer or is dry stacked with a lodge-like multi colored ledgestone can make a notable difference in the room’s atmosphere.

As the dominant feature of the room, the rest of the decorating scheme will be selected to complement the Cultured Stone selection.

ProCoat’s menu of Boral Cultured Stone veneer styles includes:

• Cobblestone
• Coralstone
• Country Ledgestone
• Dressed Fieldstone
• Drystack Ledgestone
• European Castlestone
• Limestone
• Old Country Fieldstone
• River Rock
• Hewn Stone
• Cultured Brick
• Rockface
• Streamstone
• Sculpted Ashlar
• And more

Colors range from white to nearly black with textures from rough to smooth.

Contact ProCoat Systems for More Information Regarding Boral Cultured Stone Veneers

The range of manufactured stone products from Boral is impressive. The company has been a creative innovator with new and exciting products for a wide range of uses.

ProCoat Systems specializes in state-of-the-art options for internal and exterior claddings and have broad experience working with Boral Cultured Stone products.

For details and installation information about Cultured Stone veneer by Boral, call the specialists at ProCoat Systems of Denver at 303-322-9009.

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Boral Versetta Stone Veneer

A global leader in high-quality material and construction materials, Boral Limited continues to develop innovative easy-to-install solutions that create style, grandeur, and sustainability for interior and exterior surfaces. The Versetta line of manufactured stone veneers provide home and business owners a wide range of new looks for new construction or remodeling.

ProCoat Systems, a Denver-based supplier of high quality building cladding products, has chosen to partner with Boral because of the beauty and practicality of their broad range of products. One particular line, Boral Versetta Stone® revolutionizes the installation of stone veneers to achieve the appearance and elegance of natural stone products.

How Are Versetta Stone Veneer Products Installed?

Over the years, Boral has perfected the art of creating manufactured stone products to duplicate the colors, textures, and durability of natural stone. These products are designed for easy handling and installation to save substantial time and money.

Installation of Versetta Stone Veneer panels is similar to the methods used for installing other types of siding. The interlocking panels are 8” x 36” in size with 26-guage galvanized nailing strips which are guaranteed for non-corrosion for 60 years. Versetta products have with flat panels underneath, and employ universal corners, mechanical fasteners, and flashing to attach the panels to any substrate. Nail gun, hammer, drill, measuring device, and safety equipment are the essential equipment required. There is no need for mortar or natural stone cutting saws.

The lightweight, fiber-reinforced panels are rated for wind resistance up to 110 MPH and rated Class A for fire resistance. The products are guaranteed with a 50-year limited warranty.

More information and video demonstrations regarding the simplicity of installing Boral’s Versetta Stone Veneer are available on the Boral website.

What are the Style Choices?

One major advantage to choosing Versetta Stone for interior or exterior walls is the range of styles and colors from which to choose. Styles include Ledgestone and Tight-Cut, each with a wide assortment of colors, textures and compatible accessories such as light and receptacle boxes, trim stones, and wainscot caps and sills.

Ledgestone and Tight-Cut styles and colors range from nearly white Sand to very dark Graphite. In between are Mission Point, Terra Rosa, and Sterling.

And, Boral provides Stone CAD (computer aided design) that superimposes any choice of Versetta design over photographs of existing walls and exterior surfaces to determine the ideal choice of designs.

For More Information Contact ProCoat of Denver

ProCoat specializes in the world’s finest construction and cladding materials. A valued partner of Boral, ProCoat experts can advise you of the best solutions and installation procedures for Boral Versetta products.

Visit the ProCoat website or phone 303-322-9009.

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