The use of acid to remove the film is also a consideration however, in all cases you should check with the manufacturer of the product s to make sure it will not damage the underlying surface. The removal process will also make the wall surface less smooth which will aid in the installation process. Natural Thin Stone veneer can be applied directly to any new or existing concrete block or brick surface. It is important to make sure that the existing surface and wall is sound and without defects, and that the surface has not been painted or sealed.
In the case of a poured concrete wall, all form release chemicals should be either sandblasted or removed with a masonry detergent before the application of the natural thin stone veneer. For exterior walls a non-corrosive paper-backed lath is applied see waterproofing instructions. Studs in walls are covered with exterior grade wood sheathing or cement mesh mortar units as chosen by builder. Use self-furring, non-corrosive, expanded metal lath, 3.
A paper-backed metal lath can be utilized to avoid the need for a separate moisture control barrier being applied prior to the metal lath. Check with producer for a recommendation. The use of a bonding admixture with the mortar may be recommended to add bonding strength check with your stone dealer for recommendation. Please refer to the selected bonding agent instructions for recommended mixture quantities. Extra care should be taken when using bonding agents since dropping can be difficult to remove once they cure.
Admixtures are necessary for all soffit or overhead conditions. Now that the metal lath and the scratch coat have been applied, installation of the natural thin stone can proceed. Toggle navigation.
Where to Buy. Introduction Stone has been used for thousands of years. The thicknesses of other types of stone may vary depending on the density of the stone. Three hydro-power stations are constructed on the cascade of Drini river such as the hydro-power station of Fierza, Vau i Dejes and Koman.
Malja Shkodra team has marked the first victory in the friendly matches it is playing in Turkey. After the losses achieved in the first two matches, Vllaznia has achieved its first victory a day ago under the score while playing with a second division team of Turkish championship. The team from Shkodra is carrying out its preparation phase in Turkey since more than a week on eve of the beginning of the second tour of Cup of Albania and second phase of national championship.
Malja Since three days now, there are no limitations in electric power supply in the region of Shkoder, Lezha, and Malesi e Madhe. Since two months ago, Shkodra consumers have felt the absence of electric power supply for more than 8 hours a day due to limited rainfalls in the North and North-eastern regions of the country. Malja The second phase of the distribution of food aid for the inhabitants of the snow blocked areas in the three districts of Shkoder prefecture started today on Thursday.
According to the secretary general of this prefecture, Sokol Haliti, around Around tons of food aid were distributed with helicopters of KFOR and Albanian military means, during the first phase which lasted two weeks, in the snow blocked areas of Shkoder prefecture.
According to him, through this financing, five projects will be carried out. The works have started in two of them such as the rehabilitation of eight-year schools in Oblike and Obot. The buildings will be completed by June of the current year. The project for the full rehabilitation of Shkoder-Muriqan road, 15 kilometres long, is expected to start in the coming days. Malja, Nearly tons of alimentary supplies have been delivered to inhabitants of remote zones of districts of Shkoder prefecture during the two phases of civil emergency time.
About 43 thousand inhabitants of the remote zones have profited from the contingents of aid. The heavy snowfalls of last year and first January days caused blocking of roads in many communes, located in the mountainous areas of this prefecture.
Malja, Around 20 tons of food aid were sent on Tuesday to inhabitants of the villages of Shosh and Shllak communes in Shkoder which are still blocked by snow. Ida: Five Albanian boxers will participate in the international tour, to be held in Belgrade from February The coaches of the teams are Zef Gjoni and Ramiz Reka. During the last days, the national team has been trained for this international activity in Shkoder town, where all the optimal conditions have been provided for them.
After tour of Belgrade, Albanian boxers will participate in another international activity, the Balkan Championship of Under, to be held in Tirana in April. Malja The municipality of Shkodra city and Bar city Montenegro , two cities on both sides of the border signed on Wednesday midday in the premises of Shkodra municipality an agreement of cooperation. The agreement signed by the respective Mayors Ormir Rusi and Borisllav Lolovic forecasts the implementation of several projects in the field of tourism, environment, development of cultural and sports activities, opening of exhibitions and organisation of several activities of NGO-s operating in the two cities.
Also during the meeting Lolovic presented several projects to be soon implemented such as the functioning of water transportation line Shkoder-Vilpazar a request of Montenegrin businessmen , the opening of border crossing point of Muriqan which would render possible a more rapid movement of the people and goods on both sides of the border and a joint project for protection and preservation of flora and fauna in Shkodra lake.
Shkodra municipality has so far signed co-operation agreements with the Montenegrin cities of Podgorica and Ulqini. We will cooperate in fields of interest for the region — Ambassador of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Tirana states in Shkoder —. Kapetanovic stated at the meeting he held with Shkoder Prefect Gjergj Liqejza.
Liqejza familiarized Ambassador Kapetanovic with the social-economic status of the three municipalities of the Prefecture, paying a special attention to the inter-border co-operation between Shkoder and Montenegro in many domains. At the meeting with representatives of Shkoder Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Kapetonovic got informed on the resources Shkoder and the surrounding zones have. He paid a special attention to the close co-operation with the Montenegrin Chamber of Commerce on realization of joint projects in the field of tourism, aggr.
Shkoder is a northern city of Albania, situated about kilometers away from Tirana. All the up-to-date conditions for a normal development of cultural and artistic activities have been already created in this theatre. Malja: The U. Malja- Thursday evening police detained two persons suspected of putting explosive into Vraka bridge, 8 km away of Koplik.
Local police said that they are of Vraka, but their identity is not made known on investigation grounds. The explosion damaged a foot of the bridge. The movement of the vehicles on the bridge linking Shkoder town to Koplik and the border crossing point of Hani i Hotit came to a halt for more than two hours. Malja Police of Shkodra has blocked 47 vehicles during last week with irregularities in documents, mainly products of The spokeswoman of the directory of Shkodra police told ATA that during the controls exercised in the last three days in the national road axes Shkoder-Tirane, Shkoder-Malesi e Madhe as well as in some of the main roads of the city, were blocked 47 vehicles, mainly products of According to the same source, almost all the vehicles blocked so far have lacks of documents while some of them had no documents at all.
Shkodra police is co-operating closely with Tirana Interpol for the verification of these very expensive vehicles in the countries from which they have come from. Since the beginning of this year, Shkodra police has blocked vehicles of different types for lacks of documents, four of which resulted stolen in Montenegro. The project for the service modernization started a year ago and it includes 7 cities of Albania, such as Elbasan, Korca, Lushnja, Pogradec, etc.
Present in the agreement signing ceremony was also the German Ambassador to Tirana, Helmut Schroeder. Malja: Border police of Montenegro detained late on Thursday two nationals from the city of Shkoder who were fishing in the territorial waters of this state in Lake of Shkoder.
The news was confirmed to ATA by official sources of local police, according to which the event occurred at about hrs in the lake, in vicinity of the village of Zogaj, about 9 kilometers away from the city. The two nationals are accused of violation of borders and illegal fishing, while experts from both countries are casrryign on respective investigations.
In the fair have displayed their works some artisan women from Shkodra, who have returned once again to the tradition of artisan work. In the pavilions of the Fair there were displayed works of the tradition as made by Shkodra women, such as carpets, national costumes as well as works in silver and wood. This is the second fair opened in this district after that opened a year ago with artisan works of Shkodra women.
The Commando troops in Shkoder district are working to repair the dam of Gjader river on the two damaged sides. The prefecture has sent a scraper of the Water department although the situation largely depends on rains.
The Shkoder prefecture has presented requests for food and clothing. The report says that work is going on to re-establish the traffic on Shkoder-Lezha road, which in the segment of Torovica is functioning already without problems. Measures are underway to ensure food for the evacuated people, and an estimation will be made today for the damage caused throughout the region.
According to this office, this aid is distributed to inhabitants of most affected areas by floods, such as Hajmel, Vig, Velipoje, Bushat. Aid coming by Greece was dispatched in Shkoder on Wednesday and contained tents, blankets, food and other items. According to sources from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, rain falls continued overnight in Lezhe. The pumping stations have not helped improve the situation because of the high level of waters.
In the district of Lac, the pumping stations are working normally and there has been no shortage of electricity. The same grave situation continues in the town of Shkoder where continued rains have flooded farmlands. Sources from the Agricultural Department explain that evacuation of inhabitants from the endangered zones continues. Sources from the Prefecture said to ATA that after the last night rains and the damage of a mountainous barrier in the vicinity of this village, the army forces and those of local police evacuated 30 families of this village that were in danger.
According to the sources, since yesterday army forces are working to throw concrete blocks in order to protect the damaged barrier and to avoid the demolishing of the houses. The sources said that today situation has improved due to the stop of the falls.
At the Emergency Staff are arriving already the preventives of the damages in 7 communes and 1 municipality of this district, flooded by the recent falls.
ATA — Ministry of Local Government and Decentralisation said to ATA that the situation in Shkoder prefecture, in the enbankment of Gjader river as well, is still aggravated, threating further innundation of Zadrima zone. Meanwhile the Irrigation Department, department of Road Maintance and the army units are working to install protective elements.
Technician of the shift, Ymer Qosja, said to ATA that at midday of Thirsday the water flows in this lake have reached cubic metres per second out of cubic metres per second the previos day.
As a result, he said that the water level shows Under these conditions due to the increase of the lateral flows, to keep the situation under control, at the midday of Thirsday, one of the gates of this HEC was opened from where are discharged around cubic metres per second. It is reported that the four turbines of this work are in full capacity producing 4.
Malja — After rain falls interruption, the situation in Shkodra prefecture is improving. According to Liqejza, in communes of Hajmel, Vig, Bushat Velipoje, is being estimated the damages evaluation.
Army forces and specialists are still keeping working to repair some arts work damaged in zone of Mnel Vig. The attention of local bodies is actually concentrated in repairing of electrical network damages, water supply systems, rural roads etc.
In addition he said that police has intensified fight against trafficking and smuggling. Malja, Electricity inspectors cut off nearly unauthorized power connections in different quarters of the city of Shkodra during the last days. Whereas, during there were cut off nearly illegal electric connections and there were put nearly fines to the consumers who used to abuse with electric power. Malja Nearly 40 million lek are accorded by Austrian government for the total rehabilitation of four water-supply networks in the commune of Kastrat in the district of Malesi e Madhe.
According to him, with the completion of the works to last nearly 2 years will be supplied with sufficient water nearly inhabitants of these mountainous villages who have faced the lack of water, especially during summer. Whereas, during the current year with the fund of 18 thousand lek accorded by state budget will be constructed two new water-supply networks in the villages Dedaj and Vermosh. Malaj: Seven painters from the city of Shkoder opened Thursday an exhibition in the venues of the Gallery of Arts of this city.
Their best paintings are exhibited in the show. This is the second exhibition opened in the city of Shkoder since the beginning of this year. Malja, The police of Shkoder and Montenegro will intensify the joint fight against traffics and contraband. The head of Shkoder police and his counterpart from Podgorica emphasized that cooperation, started two years ago between the neighboring police forces, has achieved positive results in fight against trafficking and contraband on Albanian-Montenegrin border.
They highlighted the notable reduction of trafficking cases, especially of women trafficking, registered in as against The two police leaders agreed that this interregional cooperation experience should deepen. Priority will be given to practical action to prevent trafficking attempts on both sides of the border.
This activity aims to increase operative performance efficiency to uncover and identify all elements involved in these traffics. Two years ago, Shkoder and Podgorice police structures signed a cooperation agreement on fight against traffics on both sides of the border. Malja, The Malesi e Madhe police, in cooperation with the border police forces on Saturday, blocked a big speedboat on the shores of Shkoder lake.
The speed-boat was found hidden in the willows near the lake and, according to police, it was thought to be used for various traffics on the Shkoder lake.
Also, the local police took three persons from the zone to the police station as suspected of being related to the users of the speed-boat.
Malja, Shkoder is the first town where the first musical band was created in Albania. It was precisely in , the year of the creation of the League of Prizren, when the first musical band was created in Shkoder. Malja Murriqan customs, 15 km away from Shkoder city, is to undergo the process of reconstruction. According to Malaj, through a fund worth 74,8 million lek out of the state budget, rehabilitation of Shkoder-Muriqan road 15 km long will start in April. Opening of Muriqan customs point will shorten the distance between Shkodra and Ulqini to 30 km in comparison to km needed to go through Hani i Hotit and will encourage inter-frontier links between these areas.
Muriqan crossing border point was closed in Opening of this point has been requested several times by Albanian government. Also during a meeting held with representatives of Montenegrin government in Bajze by December, last year on occasion of re-opening of international railway line Bajze-Montenegro, former-premier Ilir Meta asked the opening of this point.
Malja: Construction police demolished on Wednesday some 85 unauthorised constructions in Shkoder town. The head of tax police in Shkoder Prefecture, Ilir Gila, stated for ATA that during the action, some unauthorised constructions were demolished, 20 of which were made of stone, two two-storey buildings, one of which still unfinished. According to sources from construction police, during this action, which was supported even by the police, no problem arose with their owners. The premises which had been taken by unauthorised constructions will turn to green areas through UNOPS financing.
During last year, construction police demolished unauthorised constructions in Shkoder. Sources from the prefecture reported that, during the coming days, such constructions will be demolished also in several Shkoder neighbourhoods.
Malja, Minister of Environment Lufter Xhuveli stressed in Shkoder on Wednesday the indispensability of protecting the environment by all citizens. The latter asked to intervene in the town to build a short and long term strategy with the aim to preserve the environment, especially at tourist spots.
The Ministry of Environement was also asked to demand from the government to give the status of National Park to the Shkoder Lake. January — February: Taxes-Levies office in Shkodra encases 17,2 million lek more incomes. According to Miri, attention of taxes-levies office in this period is concentrated on registration of all private subjects that exercise their activity in Shkodra district and avoid fiscal obligations.
Until the end of March they aim that the number of registered subjects reach Sources from the finance office of this branch announce that during the two-month period all indicators such as VAT, excise incomes, small business and so on have been realized. All his pictures were displayed in his personal show-room at the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana. There were 60 photos which were taken in during a visit of his in Northern Albania. Then he stayed in Shkoder town and in the surrounding areas.
His pictures bring the similarity of the common life of the people in these areas with Massachusetts in the States where he lives. The opening ceremony of the show-room was attended by distinguished personalities of the Albanian culture. The black and white technique made use of the American photographer Stanley Sheerer which contains in itself the modern and classical was very easily interpreted artistically.
The exhibition is expected to stay open to the public of the capital for ten days. And then from April it will be transferred to the halls of Shkodra University, in Northern Albania. Malja, The state budget has provided a fund worth 80 million lek to build the new professional training center in Shkoder district.
Jako adds that this center will offer the inhabitants from Shkodra and other northern areas more opportunities to study and qualify in various professions, because the labor market requires qualified staff.
This center will provide courses on different domains as well as certificates which will facilitate employment in private or state run companies or setting up own businesses. The establishment of professional training centers is part of the strategy of government to reduce unemployment in the country. Sources from the prefecture made known for ATA that for the coming year, a series of projects will be implemented in economy, education, environment, culture, health and so on.
The rest of the fund is destined for the construction of three health centres in Vau i Dejes, Fuzhe-Arrez and Malesi e Madhe. Malja, Electricity inspectors cut off nearly unauthorized power connections in Shkodra the last two days. Sources report that this action will be extended in other quarters of the district in the next coming days. This is the forth action undertaken by the electricity inspectors since the beginning of to avoid cases of power abuses by the town consumers.
There are about 30 works of art from various genres of painting signed by Andi Hila and Pasquale Ursa. The painter and photographer from Shkoder town Andi Hila has taken part in 26 other collective exhibitions of a local and national level. And he has also opened three personal exhibitions in painting and photography. He has displayed a part of his works in Italy, Montenegro, Kosova.
The actual exhibition will stay opened for a week. Malja- The local police of Shkoder town in northern Albania detained Monday in the vicinity of Barbullush village, about 25 km away from the town, a very wanted person charged with murder. The same sources said that he was declared wanted since the year , after the Court sentenced him in absence with 24 years imprisonment for the murder of two persons a year ago. Xhani was caught while in possession of an automatic rifle.
Since the beginning of the year Shkoder police forces have detained 20 persons declared as wanted. The products of these firms are exported to countries such as Italy, Greece, France and so on. Like the previous year, the export of early products of tomato to countries such as Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia and so on is expected to start soon this year as well.
Malja Activity in the Savings Bank branch of Shkoder continue regularly. Beside clients depositing their savings, there are also people withdrawing deposits on demand without impediments of any kind.
According to the same source, during the day, a reduction in demands for withdrawals of deposits on the part of the clients was evident. Over 7 million lek were deposited in tellers of the branch and four new saving accounts were opened. Malja Performance of state police is concentrated on uncompromising fight against the organized crime on one side and various traffics on the other.
Afterwards Minister of Public Order introduced the newly-appointed director of local police Xhevahir Karaj who substitutes to this duty Pjerin Ndreu who was nominated deputy Director General of State Police a few days ago.
Malja: The Police of Malesi e Madhe detained at around Thursday midnight two suspected of trafficking of human beings. According to official sources from the local police, the national Bujar Pepushaj, 32 from the Lepush village of this district and Kole Pepushaj, 19, from Hot village of Bajza commune were detained in Hani i Hotit-Shkoder road axis, around 10 kilometres away from Koplik town.
The sources added that, along with two detainees, who were travelling in a car, there was a year old girl from Podgorica Montenegro. According to the police, the year old had entered Albania illegally, crossing Shkoder lake, with the help of two Albanian nationals, who would later traffic her to Italy and draw profits from her.
Since the beginning of the current year, this is the third case that the police of this district detains foreign nationals who enter Albania through Shkoder lake. During January-February period, 4 prostitutes from Romania and Moldavia have been detained, and the two individuals who accompanied them. Malja- The industrial area of Shkoder town, in which there is focused most of the native and foreign business, will be supplied with electric energy 24 hours a day. A project of the municipality and Albanian Power Corporation as well as of the businesses will make possible that beginning from Monday and onwards, work should start for a new line of 20 kilowatt with a length of 4.
A single fibre will make possible the line be supplied non-stop in a straightforward way from the station. Sources close to the municipality made known to the ATA that the aim of the project was to come to the aid of the business established in the industrial area. The deputy mayor Fatlum Nurja said that after the project will be finished, a period expected to be 60 days, the supply with electric energy of the businesses in this area will be made for 24 hours a day.
The industrial area of the town has been short of electric energy supplied not only during restricted periods, but even more. This has influenced negatively to the producing and trade activity of 37 businesses concentrated in the area. Malja- Local electric police units of Shkoder town cut recently about illegal electric links in some of the quarters of the town.
The previous controls had brought to light the fact that several families and private subjects got electric energy in an illegal way. Since the beginning of the year, this is the forth action undertaken by electric police in Shkoder town, aiming to do away with the abuses to electric energy.
While during March it was interrupted the supply with electric energy for private and family consumers, that had not paid back the bills toward Albanian Power Corporation since the year This influenced to the increase of the level of cashing four times more as compared to February.
There were cashed 27 million leks to the funds of the electric branch. Malja: Railway station of Bajza in Malesi e Madhe district, resumes work after 10 years.
This is the first cargo of private enterprises which passes through the international railway line. In the end of December , the full rehabilitation of the international station of Bajza ended through the 25 million lek fund, allocated by the state budget.
Whereas, for the current year, Albanian government has allocated some million lek for the rehabilitation of Shkodra-Bajza segment. A segment of this line from Shkodra to Grizha, 10 kilometres long was totally damaged during the riots of March 97, and the rails of this railway were sold in Montenegro. The works in this road segment are forecast to end within the current year. By the end of the works, this segment will be connected with other parts of Albanian railway.
In a meeting held between the General Directorates of Albania and Montenegro, in December last year, it was decided that the transport of passengers commences soon through the international railway line. Shkoder-Hani i Hotit line was built in It is the only railway which links Albania with Montenegro and Europe.
This is the first time a similar event takes place in Albania. Gjetja has exercised boxing in Italy since where he has contested three matches, winning two and loosing one. Water management is a critical component of proper stone veneer installation. Achieving appropriate water management requires adherence to three principles:.
Lath represents the skeleton of the adhered stone veneer system in much the same way framing is the skeleton of stick-built construction. Lath installation is critical. To ensure proper installation, fasten lath to framing so the weight load of the adhered manufactured stone veneer system can be transferred to the framing. Among the options for lath are expanded metal lath, woven wire lath, welded wire lath, fiberglass lath, and some types of plastic lath.
Lath with its attachments will carry this load to the framing. The scratch coat provides two critical functions: minimizing water and air infiltration and decreasing corrosion susceptibility and providing total weather resistance for the wall. The mass of the total scratch coat along with setting bed mortar and the faux stone units provides water management through both absorption and evaporation. Using a self-furred or lath furring fastener, center the lath near the middle of the mortar thickness.
Reinforcement at the center of the mortar offers optimal crack resistance. Failure to fur the lath will make it difficult to obtain the necessary scratch coat thickness, and will also prevent reinforcement from functioning to its full extent. To meet building code requirements, adhered stone veneer must achieve a minimum bond strength of 50 psi. To meet these standards, follow these key principles:. ASTM Standards Although adhered manufactured stone masonry veneer MSV has been in use for over 40 years, ASTM standards governing the units and their installation are brand new, having just been first published within the last five years.
Development of the Standards Before the initial publication of ASTM C in , MSV manufacturers wanting to demonstrate compliance with the building code could voluntarily submit product information and test reports to earn an Evaluation Report through the International Code Council Evaluation Service. For Standard C, the group began with the existing AC51, then set about evaluating what should be kept, modified, added, or discarded to develop unit requirements specifically applicable to MSV products.
Overview of the Specification ASTM C looks similar to other masonry unit standards developed through ASTM, and covers: 1 minimum requirements for constituent materials, 2 sampling and testing criteria, and 3 requirements for minimum compressive strength, minimum freeze-thaw durability, minimum bond strength, maximum drying shrinkage, and physical dimensions.
Table 1: MSV Unit Physical Property Requirements Constituent Materials The basic materials used to manufacture MSV are the same as those used to produce other modern concrete masonry units, and are governed by ASTM standards to ensure consistent quality: 1 Aggregates—MSV is manufactured primarily using lightweight aggregates to minimize the weight of the units, which helps in handling, in ensuring bond with the mortar setting bed, and minimizing the load on the structural substrate.
Freeze-Thaw Durability Durability testing is also required because resistance to freeze-thaw effects cannot be reliably predicted based on factors such as compressive strength, absorption, or concrete density. Figure 3 — Shear Bond Testing of MSV Units Density and Dimensions ASTM C includes requirements for thickness and face size of the MSV units, as well as a maximum weight per square foot of wall to facilitate handling and installation, as well as to help ensure good bond between the unit and the setting mortar—overly large or dense units will be more difficult to handle and place, and may tend to pull away from or slide down the mortar setting bed.
Finish and Appearance Finish and appearance provisions limit defects that would detract from either the appearance or performance of the MSV installation, but permit minor chips and cracks incidental to usual manufacturing and handling methods. Summary Even though it is a popular cladding material, adhered manufactured stone masonry veneer has historically not had a national, consensus-based specification to set minimum properties for these products, which in turn has sometimes been a source of performance issues in the field.
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