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Browse our Photo Gallery to get ideas of what you like then follow our guide below.
WILD WIND STONE SELECTING GUIDE
This should help you select your stone in a simple and organized manner.
- Choose stone style.
- Browse stone companies for style and colors.
- Choose stone company, style and color.
- Choose mortar or mortarless grout joints.
- Choose mortar color.
Choosing Stone Style:
Your choices in stone styles are the following:
- Drystack Stone sections stacked and butted together, no mortar joints.
- Weather Ledge Large and small rectangular stone with more squared off edges than ledge stone, can be stacked with or without mortar. Usually no mortar.
- Ledge Stone Large and small irregular stone. Can be stacked with or without mortar. Usually no mortar.
- Field Stone Large and small flat faced stone replicating stone turned up in fields. Mortar in between.
- River Rock Round stones replicating those found along a river bank. Mortar in between.
- Cut Limestone Larger rectangle stone resembling cut stone found on churches and foundations. Mortar in between.
- Castle Stone Larger square and rectangular stone resembling stone found on a castle. Usually no mortar in between.
Browse Stone Companies for Style and Color:
We generally use three stone companies:
- Eldorado Stone eldoradostone.com
- Dutch Quality Stone dutchqualitystone.com
- Boral Stone boralna.com
Choose Mortar or no Mortar:
- Field stone, Cut Limestone, and River Rock are generally done with mortar joints.
- Drystack and Castle Stone don’t have mortar joints
- Weather Ledge and Ledge stone can have either no mortar or mortar between them. We prefer not using mortar.
Choose Mortar Color:
Generally we use “normal” grey mortar between the stone. With some of the field stone and cut limestone we like to tint the mortar.
As a note we don’t like to use black mortar joints outside as they fade to grey anyway. Dark browns often turn out too red.
We have a buff color we like.
