How To Install Rock Wall Tiles

Step-by-step tutorial on how to install stacked stone veneer fireplace.

We took an empty wall and created a gorgeous focal point past creating a DIY stacked stone fireplace with a wood mantel and electrical fireplace!

This rustic faux stone is a great way to update a dated fireplace, and can be used with both gas fireplaces and the electric option like we have.

This fireplace DIY projection in our last basement made a HUGE impact.

Nosotros had an apse that was the perfect spot to create a fireplace where there was none. We had a new mantel and hearth built in our basement living room first:

Those tiles were simply leaned upwards against there and then I started with that bottom function -- because it was the easiest. :)

I'm sharing this DIY natural stone tile fireplace how-to with you today!

This is the Desert Quartz Ledgestone tile we used, from Lowe'southward:

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Unfortunately they don't seem to carry this exact one anymore, at least under this name. This ledge stone tile is very similar, just with more gray variations.

This natural stone tile has the same texture and a more creamy wait like we used.

I've had to visit three unlike locations to find plenty to use because some batches are more pinky shades than others. I adopt the more natural and cream tones then I've had to mix and friction match boxes.

I choose to take the stacked tile up the whole wall, merely this stone would wait fantastic but effectually the fireplace surround as well.

This stuff is crawly and And then much easier than using a mortar mix. Yous pay a petty more just volition relieve in fourth dimension and mess.

This adhesive is ready to get and yous don't take to worry about getting the mixture simply right.

You'll need a trowel -- but make sure y'all go i with "teeth" that are the right size for your tile.

Mine was the ane/4 by 1/iv size -- the adhesive container tells y'all which one to use:

After installing a few tiles and realizing not all of them are shaped exactly the same (most are), I started laying them out on the floor to brand sure they all fit together OK:

Some tiles are shorter on ane end and won't work, and I had to take a couple tiles down because of that, so this part is of import.

Tiling itself is actually quite an easy process, specially with this tile. It just takes TIME.

Kickoff past spreading your agglutinative on the wall:

Fill in the general size of the tile on the wall -- I've learned over the years that it doesn't take to exist caked on.

You're wasting the agglutinative if you go crazy with it:

The reason for this is, you'll add together more than to the back of the stone.

I've found that I waste product less if I spread information technology on with the direct side of the trowel first:

Like frosting! ;) This stuff is so easy to work with.

And then use my trowel and put the notches into it:

The blueprint of the trowel gives some more grip to the adhesive.

And so you just put it on the wall:

I wiggle it around a piffling then leave it. Yous'll have a few minutes to easily work with it but information technology grips correct abroad -- no worries near them falling off (at to the lowest degree with this particular tile).

Yes, I tiled directly onto the drywall!

• I've tiled many times onto drywall and it holds up great -- yous do non demand special drywall or bankroll unless y'all're tiling a moisture location or have a wood called-for fireplace.
• A non-combustible material like cement board should be used around a forest burning fireplace.
• Unless your tile is incredibly heavy, this drywall installation is fine. If that is a business organisation, install cement board before tiling.

As far as the install goes, direct lines get fast and easy with this tile. They fit together like a puzzle so you can become pretty quick.

Areas similar the sides of the fireplace took more fourth dimension because I had to do a lot more cutting.

You tin meet that sometimes I started on the left side, sometimes on the correct, so the seams don't ever match up:

The dazzler of this tile is information technology does not accept to exist perfect! Information technology is very forgiving because the design is then irregular and natural.

To fill up in spots I would mensurate the width I needed and then mark my cut line with a pen or pencil:

I borrowed a tile saw for this project -- I find this tool to exist i of the easiest to utilize.

Y'all bank check your line with the saw while it'south off, and so turn it on (make sure water is running) and then run it through slowly:

Tips for installing a stacked stone fireplace surround:

• Think nigh where you desire to start. I started in the middle for my long runs just this tile is so forgiving it's not necessarily needed.
• E'er wear eye protection when using the tile saw!
• I didn't have many problems cutting this tile but you do have to watch where your cut will exist -- if it's going to leave a footling sliver of a piece it will about likely get torn upward by the saw. Tiny cuts are very difficult to practice with a saw like this so make your measurements accordingly.
• Go on all of your scrap tile till you are done -- y'all never know where yous can apply a pocket-size piece that may be likewise hard to cut.
• You practice not need to grout with this tile, which saves a ton of time! There are a few spots where y'all can encounter the wall between the pieces (if you lot look actually hard), so I may fill up in a few spots with some tile caulk.

You lot will accept smaller sections to fill in and I've saved nigh of these for last, since I saved the fleck pieces:

Also, I originally planned to cut the tiles at the ends at an bending and so they would fit confronting the wall.

It was going to take Then MUCH longer to do that though, and then I went with a straight edge and I'm so thankful I did. It would be so hard to get mitered edges to match upwardly perfectly.

I will share the total reveal when I terminate the tile, do the final coats of poly on the wood and afterwards I decorate it! I tin't wait!

I stained the wood accents before the tile installation so I could get to it all.

Simply here's an idea of how this rock material looks installed:

This tile has added so much warmth such a warm, cozy experience and we're so excited nigh this area!

Can't await to encounter information technology decorated for Christmas!:

Have you used this tile in your home?

Many of you shared photos of your projects on my Facebook folio and I dear it every time I come across it used!

Here'southward an image to pin if you are interested in tiling sometime in the future:

Source: https://www.thriftydecorchick.com/2016/11/how-to-install-stacked-stone-tile-on.html

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