Week 18-22: Super Jay and the Stone Wall (14 Sept - 13 October)
We found Jay from Jayscape as the most highly recommended installer at Eco Outdoor (our stone supplier for wall cladding). He actually installed the walls in their show room.
He has been a breath of fresh air to the build - such a meticulous, tidy, reliable and hardworking craftsman. His stone work is a thing of real beauty. After disappointment after disappointment with brick layers not showing up and underperforming, it meant so much to us that Jay was there everyday he said he would be, on time to the minute and working so hard and with perfect precision. Such a great communicator too. He is a credit to the industry! Thanks Jay!
I had no idea how complicated and time consuming the process was to clad a wall with granite. It's a real work of art and 10 days plus of labour for two skilled guys. It is such an awesome feature to the house and Josh loves it compared to the render we had originally planned.
CHOOSING STONE... we had Eco Outdoor highly recommended to us by friends (thanks Mirella and Matt) with a 3-4cm thick stone cladding. we also considered Amber and Sareen Stone. Here are our final 3 choices...
Grouted Random Ashlar Clancy (left)
and Alpine (Granite Dry mounted) with our brick colour against it. It is certainly the most 'on trend' which worried us a little that it would date, but also the best colour match and we liked that it is dry mounted rather than grouted.Here it is coming to life under Jay's skillful hands...
Once it is complete, it will be offset with a nice travertine natural stone paver (cheap as chips through a wholesale supplier but direct from Turkey and the quality looked pretty good). The columns will be framed by a low pillar by the front fence and a tiled pathway drawing the eye to the columns and oversized front door. Hard to imagine with a front yard full of rubble, tools and portaloo!
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