Use slate as wall cladding

What you need:

• Plaster hardener
• Glue
• Notched spatula
• tool

Methods of covering walls with slate

• The oldest type of Wall cladding With slate, thin shingles made of the material are nailed to a battens. This method is advantageous for facades because you can install ventilated thermal insulation behind them.
• You can easily cover a wall with strips of slate. The name originally referred to the length of split bricks that were used as compensation stones at the beginning and end of walls. The slate straps are thin stone slabs that have the shape of a stone. With this method, you can walls can also be designed very individually by only covering parts of the wall.
• These brick slips, but also polygonal plates and mosaics, are often commercially available in groups applied to nets. This has the advantage that you do not have to worry about the size of the joints, making it easier to lay than with individual brick slips.
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• It is still easy with wall facing modules, in which groups of stones are put together to form fixed panels. Many manufacturers also offer outside corners as a module, which makes it particularly easy to attach such a wall cladding.
• A special form of wall cladding with slate are Tiles in common tile formats. These tiles can have an uneven natural surface, or they can be polished and smooth.


Gluing straps - this is how the living room wall succeeds

Bricks are thin, economical facing bricks, which are also used for thermal insulation and as a clinker replacement ...

For indoor use, you should always use one of the systems for gluing.

Wall cladding to be glued

1. Of the Underground must be clean, dry and stable. If it sands, paint it with a hardener.
2. In all systems, the adhesive is applied with a notched trowel, and the slate is pressed into this adhesive bed. Please note that when you use corner elements, you start at the corners. Incidentally, work is always done from the bottom up.
3. If you work with individual brick slips, with modules with joints or with nets, you must make sure that there are no too large horizontal or vertical joints. The joints should be staggered every 30 to 40 cm.
4. Depending on the system, you can glue the slate without large intermediate joints or with corresponding gaps that you have to joint later. In the case of modules, you have to be guided by how the module is constructed; these are available with and without joints. If you use one with joints, you have to leave a joint between the modules. Mesh always has joints, the size of the joints is determined by the mesh. With brick slips, it is at your discretion whether the wall cladding should be with or without joints.
5. If you are using a system with a joint, it is important that, when the adhesive has set, you completely cover the wall with joint compound and wash the compound off the slate while it is still wet.

Cladding with slate shingles

1. With the traditional method of wall cladding with slate, first screw vertical battens onto the wall. On top of that come a horizontal battens. The distances are based on the size of the shingles.
2. Start from the bottom up. Nail a row of clapboards to the bottom lath. You have to overlap them by a quarter.
3. Then nail on the next row of clapboards. This must overlap the first row by about half.

The shingled arrangement of the shingles ensures that no water can flow under the shingles.