Quartz Stone

Quartz Stone

The installation concept of Quartz Stone and Engineered Stone

With the development of the artificial stone, the dynamics characteristic is the same or even better than the natural stone. However, because of the low water absorption and smooth surface to make it difficult to glue, and also problems generated like water spots and color fading, empty of the stone, crack, falling etc affected by the traditional mortar. The adhesive specialized for artificial stone have great advantages such as high cohesiveness, softness, empty of stone avoidance and other problem reduce , so it is strongly recommended to use the adhesive specialized for artificial stone when installation. Attention before installation:

1. It is not allowed to roll, throw or hit the artificial stone during the transportation and handling for it may cause the hidden crack or damage. Keep the artificial stone outdoors from rain and snow with cloth.

2. Before artificial stone installation, pay attention to the base carefully. As the very important step for the whole installation quality, please make sure that the base is strong, flat, without empty position, clean, no oil or dust ect. At the same time, make sure that the defect for the base should be repaired beforehand, and also make sure no structure crack or shrink crack.

3. Make sure that the base is total solid before artificial stone installation.

Installation and construction guide:

1. Pavement on the wall

(1) To wet the wall base with clean water, and to construct until no obvious water line on the wall.

(2) Make sure there is no obvious water on the wall base, then Apply adhesive specialized for artificial stone (line shape/for all base) with thickness at least 3mm, with the same method on the backside of the artificial stone, thickness about 2-3mm, and then to install the stone to the wall.

(3) The adhesive which has applied on the wall base and the backside of the artificial stone should be required to finish the installation in a prescriptive time, which can achieve the best effect. It should not be installed overtime. To make the artificial stone and the adhesive stick closely, we can twist or move up and down the stone or beat it with the hammer during the pavement (for the wall pavement, installation team workers can make it fasten with the copper wire based on the design) .

(4) Make sure to have at least 2mm joint between the two panels, to avoid stone heave or crack because of the expansion or contract of the artificial stone.

(5) To clean the surface of the artificial stone simply, then 3 days after the pavement, joints clean and filled can be preceded. To fill the joints with the stone fillers specialized.

(6) After filling the joints, to clean the surface of the artificial stone with the neutral cleanser (no cleanser contains acid or alkali can be applied), it¡¯s highly suggested to use the cleanser specialized for artificial stone.

(7) To avoid to roll, throw , hit or pollute the artificial stone during the transportation and handling, especially during the pavement procedure, many sundries will harm the surface of the stone, so generally, the plastic protection paper can be tore off until checked and cleaned after the stone installation.

(8) Not suggest to use the traditional stone wet hanging method for installation.

2. Pavement on the floor

(1) To wet the floor base with clean water, and to construct until no obvious water line on the wall.

(2) Make sure there is no obvious water on the floor base, then Apply adhesive specialized for artificial stone (line shape/for all base) with thickness at least 3mm, with the same method on the backside of the artificial stone, thickness about 2-3mm, and then to install the stone to the wall.

(3) The adhesive which has applied on the floor base and the backside of the artificial stone should be required to finish the installation in a prescriptive time, which can achieve the best effect. It should not be installed overtime. To make the artificial stone and the adhesive stick closely, we can twist or move up and down the stone or beat it with the hammer during the pavement.

(4) Make sure to have at least 2mm joint between the two panels, to avoid stone heave or crack because of the expansion or contract of the artificial stone.

(5) To clean the surface of the artificial stone simply, then 3 days after the pavement, joints clean and filled can be preceded. To fill the joints with the stone fillers specialized.

(6) After filling the joints, to clean the surface of the artificial stone with the neutral cleanser (no cleanser contains acid or alkali can be applied), strongly suggest to use the cleanser specialized for artificial stone...

(7) For large area flooring, it¡¯s strongly suggest to leave a contracting joint 5-8mm in every 8-10 meters, so as to avoid arch or crack caused by the expansion or contract of the artificial stone.

(8) In order to avoid scratching, hitting or polluting the stone during transportation and handling, especially to avoid the damages on surface caused by many sundries during pavement, the plastic protection film should not be tore off until acceptance inspection and cleaning of the site.

3. Dry hanging for wall installation

Refer to Natural stone installation method and acceptance inspection.