Split face stone cladding

Stacked stone cladding, ledger panel, ledgerstone: one product

In Australia, the UK and New Zealand it is stacked stone cladding, split face cladding or natural stone wall cladding; in North America the same panel is a ledger panel or ledgerstone. It is several split face strips bonded into one staggered unit. The stepped ends lock into the next panel, so the joint disappears into the pattern and the wall reads as dry-stacked stone rather than tiles.

Because the US market sizes these panels in inches, you will see 6 × 24, 6 × 18 and 6 × 12 on our product pages. They are the same panels: 600 × 150, 450 × 150 and 300 × 150 mm.

Sizes and thickness

Standard panels are 600 × 150, 450 × 150 and 300 × 150 mm and about 20–30 mm thick. The XL panel is 610 × 230 mm and about 30–40 mm thick, in split face and in honed or sandblasted 2D and 3D faces, with matching XL corners for external corners and returns. Loose split face strips are 100 mm high in free lengths, 21 mm thick, and there is a 50 × 150 mm strip as well. Thicknesses vary with the split, as they would in any natural stone.

Travertine or marble

Travertine splits with an open, slightly porous face in creams, golds, browns and silvers, and gives a warm wall. Marble breaks sharper, with more crystal and contrast, in whites, greys and black. Both are natural stone all the way through, so a chip shows more stone rather than a grey core, and neither fades in the sun as coloured concrete veneer can.

Inside, outside and on facades

Split face cladding is used on feature walls, fireplaces and chimney breasts, kitchen splashbacks, columns, retaining and garden walls, outdoor kitchens and facades. Outdoors, use an exterior-rated adhesive, seal the stone so water does not sit in the face, and in frost-prone areas follow the adhesive maker's guidance for freeze-thaw. On facades above ground level, follow your local building code and the adhesive system's specification; some jurisdictions call for mechanical fixing at height.

What to fix it to

Onto fibre cement sheet, cement board, masonry, brick or concrete — never straight onto plasterboard or painted surfaces. Use a polymer-modified cement-based adhesive on the wall and back-butter each panel. Start at the bottom on a level line, stagger the vertical joints, and seal the stone once the adhesive has cured.

From Denizli, by the container

We sell to importers, distributors and stone suppliers. Samples go out before an order is confirmed, the minimum order is 100 m², and one container can carry several colours and products. Crates are strapped timber, heat-treated to ISPM 15, and we ship FOB Izmir about four weeks after order confirmation.