Serving clients nationwide, Call us at (877) 210-9248 to reserve your samples today
Serving clients nationwide, Call us at (877) 210-9248
Serving clients nationwide, Call us at (877) 210-9248 to reserve your samples today
Serving clients nationwide, Call us at (877) 210-9248
When a larger format stone is required, our XL Rock Panels deliver with larger individual stones and a unique interlocking edge design.
XL Series Rock Panel
Offering larger individual stones and a unique interlocking edge profile, XL Rock Panels are an ideal thin stone veneer for jobs where a larger stone look is desired. The cut stones within the XL Rock Panels are approximately TWICE the size of those found in our standard Rock Panel collection, but maintain that same signature dry-stack look you know and love.
These thin stone panels are perfect for commercial and residential facades, retaining walls , broad feature walls, and tall stone fireplaces .
Larger Stone Design, Interlocking Ends
Finger-Jointed, Interlocking Corner Unit
Get to Know Your XL Rock Panel
XL Rock Panels offer a “stepped” interlocking edge profile, which allows one panel to interlock with its neighboring panel. This unique system decreases the size of the vertical seam between two panels from 6” to 3” which is important with larger sized individual stones and provides the most seamless look possible while still leveraging the easy to install nature of a panel system. Add this simple, but refined detail to Norstone’s already exceptional manufacturing techniques and you arrive at one of the best-calibrated, most seamless, and most dimensional panels in the market.
XL Rock Panel Brochure & Install Guide Downloadable Resources
How Many SF is 1 XL Rock Panel? Each 6″x24″ Rock Panel with the stepped / interlocking edge profile provides .94 square feet of wall coverage. The Outside Corner Unit covers 6 lineal inches of vertical outside corner and accounts for approximately .94 square foot of wall coverage when used in full.
How Do I Calculate Corner Units? Each Outside Corner Unit will provide approximately .94 square foot of wall coverage when used in full and provides 6 lineal inches of vertical outside corner. For every 1 lineal foot of vertical outside corner, 2 corner units are needed.
Natural stone is one of history’s oldest and most revered building materials. From the ancient pyramids of Egypt and the Coliseum of Rome all the way to the modern era, natural stone, in its many forms, has provided a cornerstone for building and design. Norstone’s exclusive adaptation of this ancient medium into thin stone panels has further progressed natural stone to be used on places and in applications previously thought impossible. Norstone XL Rock Panels adhere to the following characteristics:
Norstone XL Rock Panels are made from 100% natural stone and create a 3 dimensional thin stone veneer look.
The Ochre Blend is a Quartzite based sedimentary stone.
The Charcoal, White, and Ivory Rock Panels are all pure Quartz.
With an amazing blend of large format stones and traditional color blends, XL Rock Panels are a perfect fit for exterior thin stone veneer installations, or anywhere a larger format thin stone panel system is needed. With a bigger and bolder look than the standard series Rock Panels, XL Rock Panel maintain clean and simple lines.
Norstone Rock Panels are ideal for:
Exterior projects that would benefit from the larger size stones in the XL Rock Panel.
Residential Applications, including feature walls, facades, fireplaces, chimneys, feature and retaining walls.
Commercial Applications, including office, retail, signage, restaurant / bar, hotels, casinos, hospitality and medical builds outs.
For more detailed installation instructions, please visit our installation guide.
One of the most compelling reasons for choosing a thin stone panel system is the ease with which the product is installed. The panel system provides for rapid installation over prepared cementitious surfaces, such as cement board, brick / block, or a traditional lathe and scratch coat with a polymer modified tile thinset. Thin stone veneer is ideally cut on a tile wet saw and our XL Rock Panels have staggered edge profile, allowing the installer to interlock adjoining panels together, thus eliminating the need to grout or point mortar between individual pieces or units.
Whether part of a large scale commercial application, or a small residential project, all levels of installers will find the XL Rock Panel quick and easy to install and a pleasure to work with.
A natural stone sealer can be applied depending on the characteristics of the application or to achieve a desired look or finish. Note that acid should not be used to clean Norstone products, for instructions on how to maintain or clean our products, please contact your local representative or refer to our installation guide.
Norstone’s Thin Stone XL Rock Panel Range is available nationwide.
Wherever you might be located, Norstone can be purchased either manufacturer-direct from our offices or via a trained distributor in your local area. Norstone products are consistently kept In Stock either in distributor warehouses around the country or in one of our national distribution hubs. This means shorter lead-times for most projects.
XL Rock Panels in Action
Why the XL Rock Panel Range
With stones meticulously cut and dry stacked to precision, we feel we’ve created the most perfect of all ledgestone panels in our XL range. Dry-stacking is a stone laying technique where stones are stacked directly one on top of the other instead of separating them with mortar. While this is more labor-intensive for our manufacturing, we prefer the clean lines it creates. So instead of using concrete mortars in our panel system, we opt for high strength epoxies which are light weight and more durable. This gives our panels the build strength to stay strong in transit and during on-site handling.
XL Rock Panels offer a “stepped” interlocking edge profile, which allows one panel to interlock with its neighboring panel. This unique system decreases the size of the vertical seam between two panels from 6” to 3” which is important with larger sized individual stones and provides the most seamless look possible while still leveraging the easy to install nature of a panel system. Add this simple, but refined detail to Norstone’s already exceptional manufacturing techniques and you arrive at one of the best-calibrated, most seamless, and most dimensional panels in the market.
At Norstone we take great pride in not only making a quality stone veneer panel product but also making it great looking. Originally created by a trained designer, our panels are more than just gluing a bunch of loose stone together. Heights and widths are carefully designed and executed during the manufacturing process to create architectural grade products. This is especially true of the XL Series Panels where everything is bigger, bolder, and on display for everyone to admire.
XL Rock Panels also incorporate our two-part, finger-jointed corner system. The two-piece system offers a hassle free installation and provides the most seamless look possible. One section is longer than the other to allow an offset pattern to continue around the corner along the adjacent walls. Because they require little skill on the part of the contractors fixing our rock panels to a wall, they significantly reduce installation time and onsite labor costs, especially when compared to the time and skill involved in cutting and forming mitered corners.
Stone veneer is meant to be an easier to work with version of traditional stone masonry products. Traditional stone products might be 4" thick or even thicker, whereas stone veneers are often going to be less than 2" thick and some even thinner.
While its possible to cut stone veneer much thinner, to allow for the XL Panels to use the largest possible individual stones and still be less than 15 lbs per square foot, the XL Series Rock Panels product comes in between .75" to 1.75" thick.
At Norstone we refer to our stone veneer products as panels. Most of the panels, including the XL Series Panels are 6" tall and 24" wide.
Stone veneer is natural stone that has been cut or fabricated into thinner layers than the stone would normally come in and is normally used to enhance the appearance of various wall applications.
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