Stamford Stone Veneer installs adhered thin stone veneer on exterior walls, fireplaces, foundations and chimneys across Stamford and lower Fairfield County. Stamford has about 58,000 homes with a median build year of 1972, and one in seven was standing before 1940, so most of the walls we veneer are older sheathing, block or brick rather than new construction. Our stone masons set natural thin-cut fieldstone, granite and bluestone from New England quarries, and manufactured lines such as Eldorado Stone and Cultured Stone, over a water-resistive barrier, galvanized metal lath, a scratch coat and a drainage plane, bedded in a polymer-modified veneer mortar such as Laticrete MVIS. Think of it as a raincoat over a sweater: the stone is what people see, and the drainage plane behind it is what keeps the house dry. In our opinion that plane is the one line on a quote you should never cut.
Every quote is written by the square foot after the wall is measured, because the yards sell flats by the square foot and corners by the linear foot, and a sample board of the chosen stone goes on site before the first course is set. North Stamford's one-to-three-acre lots still carry the dry-laid fieldstone walls the old farms left along the property lines, and matching that tan-and-gray range is most of the color conversation on a Stamford job. Stone comes through local Fairfield County yards such as Connecticut Stone and O&G Mason Supply, so the stone on your estimate is the stone that goes on your house.
