Natural stones are known for their beauty and natural grace. People nowadays prefer natural stones as a home decorative material over many other synthetic materials. This owes to the stability, strength and durability executed by these stones. Natural stones are not available easily as they are required to be extracted from the rare natural resource rich remote locations. This makes its extraction process quite expensive which adds on to its prices. This is why such stones are also quite expensive in nature and not affordable by everyone. Thus, as an option to these expensive natural stones, Natural Stone Veneerwas introduced in the market.

This stone veneer is basically a protective yet decorative covering that is used for covering the interior as well as exterior walls and surfaces. Their general thickness is one inch and they weight near about 15 lbs per square foot. Their width and weight eliminates the need of any additional support to keep it intact in its place. Due to its light weigh and thinness, these veneers are also often referred to as thin stone veneer. These stone veneers are not only made from natural stones but they are also made from manufactured stones. Stone Suppliers either get these veneers made from real stones or replace it with collected or quarried stones.

A stone veneer is constructed by pouring a lightweight mix of concrete into a rubber mould to give it different types of shapes and styles. After a shape is attained by this concrete mix, it is finally provided color through a special coloring process. This coloring process is the stage that makes a stone veneer to appear exactly same as a natural stone. Since, these veneers are light weight; they are attached to the walls with the mere support of special mortars.

Stone veneers are replicated out of large variety of natural stones like marble, granite, limestone, slate, etc. However, the one that remains in maximum demand is the Slate Veneer. A general stone veneer provides advantages like cost cutting, ease of application and large variety of designs. But when you opt for a slate veneer, you grab along the immense qualities offered by slate. The finest of slates are available underground and can only be attained through mining. Due to this, its surface gets used to elements from hundreds of year making it strong enough to survive the most rough use as well as instances of natural calamities.