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Understand the Material's Properties and Applications

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The flexible rock panels, referred to as Duraliner or Moisture Shield, are made from a material similar to a truck bed liner, but impregnated with real stone and crushed rock/sand for color and texture. This makes them lightweight (a 4x8 ft sheet weighs only 20-30 lbs) yet extremely durable, able to withstand being driven over or hit with a hammer. The material is designed for both indoor and outdoor use, with a lifespan exceeding 20 years in harsh environments like Disneyland. Its flexibility allows it to be bent and twisted to create three-dimensional and curved surfaces, eliminating the need for traditional masonry skills. This makes complex rock features, like lightweight boulders and waterfalls, achievable for DIY enthusiasts.

Goal: Learn about the Duraliner material, its characteristics, and how it simplifies rockwork.

Tools and materials

  • Angle Grinder — Cutting the dense material for custom shapes
  • Flexible Rock Panels Moisture Shield — Primary building material for cave effects
  • Hammer — Demonstrating material durability
  • Utility Knife — Shaping the flexible material

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It's it's basically like a truck bed liner. Okay. Okay. And we've done a few little things different with that. We don't use any paint to color it. We use crush rock and sand to color it. And it's embedded in the material and on it. And then we back it up. If we need it to be structural, we'll back it up with um some polyurethane highdensity structural foam. Okay. Yeah. And that's what gives it the three-dimensional feel. So, you've got the texture built into the rock work, but then you can actually make it more three-dimensional by by bending it and twisting it if you want. And that's not for every application, but you'll see what I'm showing you now. You'll see how you can do that. So, let's say you take a typical 4x8 sheet, Brian, or St. Sorry. How much does a 4x8 sheet weigh? Oh, like 20 lb. 20 something pound. But you could drive a car over it and not hurt it. You can hit it with a hammer, which we'll do. I'll show you all this stuff later today. Yeah. All right, guys. This is where I'm going to jump in because this is the part of the story that got me really excited. Now, he has never made stone facades or stone veneers yet, but when I went down to Texas, I talked him into starting to do this thing. Because if you guys can imagine a 4x8 sheet of this stuff, 32 square ft, weighing 20 lb and going up in minutes compared to trying to lay this stuff out typically brick by brick, stone by stone, and the sheer weight of this thing and the process of it. This is night and day different. This is so much easier than the old techniques that stonemasons are used to using and it lasts forever. So, I'm going to put a link to this stuff down below because the door of possibilities is open. You no longer have to be a mason to put this stuff up. You can be a handyman, have a Milwaukee screw gun or a DeWalt or a Makita, I don't care. Pick one, know how to drill some screws into a wall, and you can make something look really cool, really fast. So, it's it's light, but it's just so durable, which makes it perfect for what we're using it for. How long do you think it'll last in an outdoor application? If somebody wants to stick this on the front of their house as a facade, how long do you anticipate something like this lasting? Well, I didn't know how long this would last when I started it. No one was doing it the same way I was doing it. So, I've been going 21 years. I've seen stuff back at home in my sister's house and on some buildings and zoos that is between 12 and…

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