What is the difference between natural stone and faux stone siding?
A. Natural stone siding comes from a harvest of actual stones gathered and processed from quarries. Some varieties of natural stone siding are processed in the factories and formed from large slabs. They are shaped in a similar way to how stone tiles are shaped; by means of water cutting and cutting with a diamond saw. The individual stones are set into mortar to form an exterior siding application. Faux stone siding uses no actual stones, but is poured into molds where the liquid mixture sets into a stone-like shape. Once formed, each of the “stones” can be set into mortar in much the same way natural stone is. There are also varieties of faux stone siding you can buy which are formed in panels rather than as individual “stones”. These panels can then be set into mortar as a unit.
