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Stone Veneer Installation in Dallas

Stone veneer on Dallas home facades, columns, chimneys, and kitchen surrounds. Natural or manufactured, detailed so moisture has a way out.

Stone veneer in Dallas runs about $20 to $45 per square foot installed, depending on natural versus manufactured stone. We face home fronts, entry columns, chimneys, and outdoor kitchen surrounds. Natural stone is heavier and reads as real because it is. Manufactured stone is lighter and cheaper and has come a long way on looks. On the older Lakewood and Preston Hollow homes, owners usually want natural stone to match the era.

The detail that decides whether veneer lasts is what goes behind it. Stone veneer is not waterproof, so a wall needs a drainage plane, a weather-resistant barrier, and weep screeds at the bottom so any water that gets behind the stone has a path back out. Veneer set straight onto sheathing with no drainage detail traps moisture and rots the wall behind it. We detail the moisture path before the first stone goes up, and most of the failed veneer we have torn off in Dallas got that part wrong.

Mortar-set leaves a grout joint between the stones. Dry-stack sets them tight with no visible joint for a cleaner, flatter look. Both hold up outdoors. For columns and freestanding stone on Dallas black clay, the footing has to carry the weight without settling, because clay that moves under a rigid stone face will open cracks through it.

Stone veneer pairs with retaining walls and the rest of our stonework when you are reworking a front yard or a sloped Dallas lot, since one crew matching the stone keeps it all reading as one project.

We have set stone veneer across DFW for 20 years. See our full Dallas services and fill out the form for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.