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Stone Veneer Installation in Highland Park

Stone veneer for Highland Park facades, columns, chimneys, and surrounds. Matched to original masonry with proper drainage.

Stone veneer puts a natural-stone face on a facade, a column, a chimney, or an outdoor surround without full solid masonry. We install stone veneer on facades, columns, chimneys, and fireplace and kitchen surrounds, natural or manufactured. In the Park Cities the job is almost always matching original masonry on a home that has stood for decades, so the veneer reads as part of the house, not an addition.

Natural or manufactured is the first choice. Natural stone veneer is cut from real stone and carries the depth and color range to match an existing masonry facade, which is usually what an older Highland Park home needs. Manufactured stone is cast and lighter, a route where weight or budget rules. We bring both and set them against the existing stone, and on a historic facade we source to the original rather than the nearest sample.

Veneer fails when it is treated like a finish. Behind a proper install is a drainage plane, a weather barrier, and weep screeds at the base so water that gets behind the stone drains out. On an older home the wall behind the veneer often needs that detailing added, since it was not built for it. We set veneer mortar-set with raked or grouted joints or dry-stacked with no visible mortar, and the moisture detailing is the same either way.

Exterior stonework in Highland Park can fall under the town's architectural review, so we plan the veneer to stay in keeping with the home, and we work the tight access and close property lines these lots come with. The same stone can carry to an outdoor fireplace or kitchen so the yard matches the house. See the full range of stonework or our Highland Park services. Fill out the form for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.