What Are Artificial Stones?

Demand for Stone

• The ever-increasing demand for stone and the stone manufacturers, located primarily in the southeastern portion of the United States, could not keep up with the pace of natural stone supplies. Artificial stones were developed to fill the gap. These stones look just like the real McCoy. They mimic the color, shape and styles of natural stone, are readily available and are high-quality products.

Advantages

• The advantage of using artificial rock is that the pieces are easy to move. You may find some real rocks that you like in a remote location but you may have difficulty going to pick them up and transporting them to your destination. Furthermore, you can create the rock formation that you want in your yard or in your home when you use artificial stones. If an already existing rock formation resides on your property, you are forced to work around the structure because it dictates your space and the ultimate design.

Options

• You can add artificial rock to existing rock formations to make the structure bigger or more interesting and lend the existing formation better form. You can mimic the durability, beauty and permanence of actual rock when using fake stones. The stones can be sized exactly how you envision the design--with the desired scale, effects and dimensions.

The Yard

• Faux stones create decorative additions to your yard. Home improvement stores carry fake stone birdbaths, fake stones for waterfalls and fake stone garden benches that look real but don't weigh a ton, which means you can move them to a different location with minimal effort.

Other Uses

• Fake stones can be used if you are doing a project and need it to look like a particular object or structure, for example a castle or rugged terrain. You also can reproduce realistic animals out of fake stone.

  Fake stones are used in playgrounds to create climbing boulders on which children can climb. The faux rocks can create cliffs and hills and underworlds in aquariums. Fake rocks are frequently utilized in zoos.

  Artificial rocks are used to cover eyesores in the yard, such as a pool filter. The rock is hollow so you can set it over the object. The artificial stones can be used to create a faux flagstone walkway in your yard. The stone comes in flat styles called low-profile rock.

Engineered Stone

• Artificial marble is, for example, referred to as engineered stone. Marble powder, pigment and resin are mixed to together and cast using a vacuum that oscillates and creates a block. The marble is cut, calibrated, ground and polished. Sometimes polyester resin is added that makes the engineered stone glossier, harder, strong, more resistant and less likely to absorb water.