LANDSCAPING W
alls, the things that keep your house up, stop your ceiling falling into the floor, and give the windows
something to sit in.
For generations walls have been built out of stone, brick and wood. Modern building standards now demand further efficiencies in the form of cavities and insulation, whilst always striving for improved environmental standards. Wild stone offers cost effective alternatives to traditional building methods, by providing cladding materials that use a fraction of the materials and are simpler to install therefore lowering overall building costs. And best of all you wouldn’t be able to tell it apart from the traditional materials it replaces. Wild Stone offers complete, high performance building facades with a choice of real stone, engineered stone, vertical tiling or brick. Offering 35 different colours and materials to give their customers a real choice of texture, style, colour and price point, not to mention availability. It’s a complete system, available as panels or slips that can be used jointed or unjointed. It offers a lightweight alternative to traditional materials, and is fast and easy to install.
Wild Stone UK operations director Roger Pearson says: “All too often, customers tell us that what they want is a natural stone cladding panel. Yet when we show them our range of engineered stone panels, it turns out that what they want is actually a particular look, colour or a texture. It doesn’t have to be natural stone.”
NOT JUST
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
Fiona Russell Horne meets a company that is offering cost effective innovative alternatives to traditional stone.
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Wild Stone UK key account manager Sally Layton adds: “Customers have been really surprised by how authentic the engineered range looks. Once installed it is difficult to tell the difference. The engineered product was the material of choice for a very exclusive build filmed for Channel 4’s Building Britain’s Super homes, we couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. And they liked it so much they are using it again on another project. Pearson adds: “We’ve realised that, by and large, people are looking for a texture and a colour, and what it’s made of is a lesser consideration. As long as it fits visually and
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