How To Cover A Brick Wood Siding With Stone

When you install siding over an existing brick masonry or stucco wall creating a level substrate.

How to cover a brick wood siding with stone.

Step 2 attach a 2 by 2 inch wood furring strip to the walls centered on each of the chalk marks. The 1 by 6 treated pine deck boards on the bottom step had to be cut to fit around the bottom railing beam. 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.

As with other surfaces the brick must provide a stable surface for the veneer layer. But it is not as easy as troweling mortar onto the brick and applying veneer. Mark the length of the brick wall with chalk every 24 inches. Depending on the size of your project you can potentially finish installation in a single weekend.

Options for covering exterior brick. 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. You must apply a rigid sheathing material to the studs then secure the siding to the sheathing. This customer chose genstone to cover exterior brick because of the ease of installation.