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November 28, 2007
removing fake stone facade
I would like to explore removing the unattractive "Garden State Brick Face and Stone" fake stone facade on my little house in Greenpoint and restore it to the original brick. Has anyone had any experience with this? If anyone knows of a good mason or re-pointer, I'd love a name/number. Thanks.
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I think that stuff is usually applied over wire lath attached to the original surface so memoval should be possible, although there's probably some damage from the fasteners used to attach the lath.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at November 29, 2007 9:40 AM
Yes, I heard told that about the wire mesh. I imagine many bricks underneath will be damaged. But I suppose I could get those bricks replaced when it all gets repointed? Do they replace whole bricks when they repoint, or just the mortar?
Posted by: elpe at November 29, 2007 11:17 AM
That crap actually peels off pretty cleanly. You'd be surprised. You could even do it yourself. Getting a mason to do this part of the job would be overkill, I think. Day laborers will suffice.
Posted by: guest at November 29, 2007 12:07 PM
good luck. i had a similar problem with my old place in PS. it was new still, so I just painted it dark grey and it looked good. i was also planning on selling it, and it was renovated modern anyway, so those 2 reasons made me not bother to change it.
Posted by: guest at November 29, 2007 3:16 PM
It's funny you should say it comes off easy because one little square popped off from the bottom lintel of one of the windows. But I think it was just stuck on, they didn't bother with the mesh on the lintels - yes, they even covered the lintels with this stuff!
Posted by: elpe at November 29, 2007 4:41 PM
It should come off fairly easy for the simple reason than back then they didn't attach the wire mesh to the wall. Now we attach the mesh to the wall with mechanical anchors, wich means even if the material pop up it still be atached to the wall and present no hazard of falling off.
How sure you are there is brick behind?
Usually to install that stone thay remove the siding (yes siding) downn to the wood boards, install felt paper (roof base paper) and on top of that they nailed the wire mesh.Finally they installed the stone veneer.
Hope it helps.
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Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 11:55 AM
Lyn,
I dont' know much about Brownstones, but thought you may be someone I went to PSU with. Did you live in Beam Hall? If so, hope you remember me, otherwise I feel a little foolish. Was going through boxes of old Christmas cards and came across your card from about 1990. Hope you are the same Lyn I knew....
Tyson Boutcher
tboutcher@parklandscapeservices.com
Posted by: TysonB at December 9, 2007 7:26 PM
Sorry to be foolish. Guess you aren't the Lynn I thought you were. Good luck with your
brownstone. Had alot of good memories about Lynn and Gene and the others at PSU. Again, sorry to bother you
Posted by: TysonB at March 2, 2008 9:41 PM
our brick face seemes to have been put on top of our browstones ground floor facade in the 1950s when they remove the stoop.
do you think its resonable for us to pray they didnt ancor it in the hopes that we wont destroy the original brownstone detailing underneath?
we are also hoping to remove this with day labors.
does anyone have reasonably priced brownstone guy - we need to fix our facade and hopefully add a NEW STOOP
Posted by: brownstone89 at March 10, 2008 7:35 PM
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