Questions tagged [stone]
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How do I seal a stone/concrete patio above a garage?
My nearly 100 year old house has two garages. One has a sun room built on top of it and just past that is one that's just a patio. It's basically a stone structure that has a concrete roof that is ...
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How do I cleanly remove mortar from a sandstone block?
I am demolishing a leaning retaining wall and rebuilding it from the same blocks. The wall is made of faced sandstone blocks mortared together.
I have been breaking the blocks apart and removing the ...
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How can I remove stone walkway stains?
Last year I had a goshen stone walkway installed. Within a few weeks some of the stones discolored and had black stains on them. The installers had never seen anything like it before. I tried using a ...
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What type of stone wall finish is this?
I saw this wall outside a hotel and am impressed. I wonder what it's called, what it's made of, and how to build it. How do they find all those seemingly random shaped rocks and align them in such a ...
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Thermal bluestone showing discoloration after a couple of years
The picture shows unsightly spotting on the thermal bluestone on the right. Out of 30 that I bought and installed, 8 are showing this. This stone was not sealed as I was led to believe, perhaps ...
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How can I refinish a stone floor previously coated with wood varnish?
The house my family is in has had a room with stone floors for several decades. Every 5 or so years, we've just been scraping off whatever varnish comes off, then just re-varnish it. I think my ...
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Raising the height of stair steps without damaging the stone layer
I am installing floor heating on the ground floor and first floor of my house. The problem is that the height from the raw floor to the upper end of the stairs on the first floor is only 6 cm, but the ...
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Painting stepping stones in my garden
I have some stepping stones in my garden made of "artificial stone," which I assume is a fancy name for concrete since they contain rebar. Over the past few years, I've used a pressure ...
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faux rock veneer panel installation
Is Hardy backer board firm enough to mount faux veneer stone panels to (for a fireplace) when the Hardy Backer is screwed directly to studs? Should I install sheetrock or plywood first to studs then ...
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How to repair stone walkway
I have never done stone work before and I am getting confused by what product I need.
I am looking to repair a stone that has come out in my walkway. I've watched a few videos on YouTube and the ...
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Frame stains on Marble shower!
The frame door on my marble shower broke, so I installed a new all-glass frame. It looks great. However, when the metal shower frame was bolted to the marble at the door sill, it was removed, leaving ...
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What can I use to fill a joist notch? [closed]
I’m putting a stone bath in an upstairs bathroom so am sistering the joists with glued and screwed plywood either side. I’ve removed some rad pipes that I don’t need so have a number of notches in the ...
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How should I re-level my paver walkway?
The walkway to my house is made of bricks and these large stones that serve as steps. One of the stone steps shifted so that when we walk down the walkway, it's a trip hazard. I tried to youtube ...
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What would you do to mount a TV above this fireplace? [closed]
I want to mount my tv above this fireplace. does anyone have any ideas? Do I need a hearth with a gas fireplace? How low could I mount television? Do I need mantle? thanks.
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How to save this patio from sinking?
The image below shows the same patio from above and below. The patio has been sinking. I had removed the bluestone from the top. You can see on the picture on the right that the most recent slab has ...
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