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Natural stone veneer
Quarried limestone, granite and sandstone cut to the elevation. Sorted and laid so colour and coursing read evenly across the whole face, not blotched panel by panel.
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Service 02Stone and brick that sits straight for the life of the building.
Natural and manufactured stone, full brick and thin veneer, on new builds and restorations. Ties, flashing, weeps and mortar are set out before the first course goes on, because masonry is unforgiving once it is up.
20+
Years of crew experience
700+
Projects delivered
100%
WSIB & fully insured
Cobourg Creek Lofts
Brick and stone veneer · Cobourg, ON
What we install
Four scopes, one crew, one point of accountability.
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Manufactured and thin stone
Adhered thin veneer on a scratch coat and lath assembly. The economical route to a stone face on light-frame and steel-stud walls that cannot carry full masonry.
AdheredLathScratch coat
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Full brick and block
Anchored brick veneer and block back-up with ties, shelf angles, lintels and weeps installed to the structural drawings. Corners and openings set out before the first course.
AnchoredTiesWeeps
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Restoration and repointing
Repointing failed mortar, rebuilding spalled and bulging sections, replacing damaged units and cleaning the face. Mortar matched for colour and, more importantly, for hardness.
RepointingRebuildCleaning
The assembly
Set out once, laid once.
Coursing, joint size and corner returns get set out on the wall before we lay. Behind the face, the cavity has to drain, and every tie and flashing has to be where the drawings say it is.
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Set-out and shop drawings
Coursing, joint width, corner returns and opening details drawn and agreed before material is ordered. Fewer cuts on site, fewer surprises at the corners.
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Water-resistive barrier and flashing
WRB lapped and tied into through-wall flashing at the base and every shelf angle, so water that gets in leaves the wall instead of the building.
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Cavity and drainage
A clear drained cavity with mortar-catch and weeps at the correct spacing. A blocked cavity is the single most common cause of masonry staining and freeze damage.
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Ties and support
Ties and anchors at the spacing the structural drawings call for, fastened into solid substrate, with shelf angles and lintels shimmed level before any units go on.
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Laying and coursing
Units blended from multiple pallets, courses run to a story pole and levels checked each lift, so joints stay consistent from grade to parapet.
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Pointing, sealing and clean-down
Joints tooled to the specified profile, movement joints sealed, then a controlled clean-down that will not burn the face of the stone.
Specifying
Adhered thin veneer or anchored full masonry?
Adhered thin veneer
Thin stone bonded to a lath and scratch-coat assembly. It carries no structural load, so the wall behind it does not need a shelf angle or a masonry foundation ledge.
Light enough for steel-stud and light-frame walls
No shelf angles or foundation ledge required
Fast to install over large areas, less crane and scaffold time
Depends entirely on the drainage assembly behind it being right
Stone & Brick Veneer on site
Elevations we laid, corner to corner.
Cobourg Creek Lofts, Cobourg
Multi-residential elevation in brick and stone veneer.
Hoya Casa, Toronto
Stone veneer face with banding and opening surrounds.
LCBO, Barrie
Retail exterior with masonry veneer and finish detail.
Before you tender
Questions we get from owners and PMs.
If your question is not here, call and ask for the estimating desk. We will tell you what an honest scope looks like even if it is not ours to build.
Both. Elevations, wall sections and the stone or brick schedule get you a scope and number in about two business days. For restoration we walk the building first, because the condition behind the face decides the price.
Yes, with hoarding, heated enclosures and cold-weather mortar practice. There are limits: below the mortar's working temperature we protect and heat rather than lay and hope.
Usually. We source samples against the existing wall in daylight, match the mortar colour and joint profile, and set out coursing off the original so the addition lines through.
We work to the structural drawings and confirm tie spacing, shelf angle levels and lintel bearing with the consultant before we lay. Anything that does not match the drawings gets raised in writing, not improvised.
Deficiency walks are scheduled with the owner or PM rather than left to a punch list at the end.
Next step
Send elevations, get a masonry scope back in two business days.
Elevations, wall sections and the stone or brick schedule are enough to start. We will flag tie spacing, flashing and lintel details that cause trouble before they are priced.