Stucco is a great looking cladding itself, with a limitless range of colours and a range of ways to design it to your specific tastes. Some home owners want to take the design a step further by integrating stone with their stucco. This creates a great contrast between the rough stone-face and the smooth (comparitively) stucco texture.
Stucco and Stone Veneer
Price plays a factor in how much of each you decide to use in the end. While you can budget for stucco at $10 per square foot, stone is installed at roughly $25 per square foot. Because of this, people opt to use the stone veneer selectively.
Stone veneer is a more impact-resistant product, making it ideal for the bottom 4-5 feet of a home. A common practice is to install a 4-foot high “skirt” of stone around the front (and wrapping onto the sides) of the home, adding a stucco sill to the top and then installing stucco above.
Note that stucco can be made more impact-resistant through the use of a heavy-duty mesh. The cost of this is typically around an additional $2 per square foot, and is only required along the bottom 6 feet of a wall where there may be more foot-traffic or kids might be playing.
Stucco and Stone combination on a commercial project
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