How to Install Decorative Natural Stone Outdoor Flooring

Turn Any Backyard Into A Wonderful Paradise Your Neighbors Won’t Want To Leave

With Everlast® Natural Stone! www.everlastepoxy.com/natural-stone-flooring

When you’re trying to create a beautiful backyard, a single broken tile can end up hurting the overall image.

If the broken tile happens to be in a highly visible location, it’s probably going to attract the eyes and take away from the overall beauty of the backyard.

For Mark Rogers customers’ backyard, despite many professional tile renovations, the general design of the backyard deck was causing the tiles to pop up after a “hard” North Carolina winter.

Realizing that installing tile again was not going to solve any problems, Mark reached out to Everlast Epoxy for an alternative solution to constantly replacing the outdoor tile.


Extensive Damage Due To Moisture & Freezing Conditions

Mother nature sure can be a tough cookie to deal with. Given even a small amount of space to fill up, water seeping underneath an outdoor tile will eventually expand once it starts to freeze.

Now you’ve got an even a larger pocket for water to fill up once it thaws.

As any seasoned professional knows, this type of freezing and thawing will eventually damage and destroy the flooring material bond to the substrate if the moisture has no where else to go.

Because of the pool environment around the deck, water was constantly being thrown onto the tile (especially when it was sunny and not raining!). With grout lines being highly absorbent of water and other liquids, it’s no surprise that the tile weren’t staying in place for too long.

No amount of professional installation can offset the impact of water eroding the thinset underneath each tile and causing them to come loose after only a few years.

However, looking ugly was not the only thing wrong with this backyard deck;

1. Sharp corners from popped up tile were becoming a hazard for people walking around barefoot.
2. Because the tile was set in a groove against the concrete deck, it limited the type of tile that could be installed because it had to fit exactly into the groove and its height needed to be flush with the concrete.
3. Alongside the edge of the pool was a curving, vertical surface with no ledge to support heavy material. Because of the curvature, tile was obviously not an option, so the owner was forced to have raw concrete exposed for every pool guest to stare at.


Beautiful, Flexible, & Able To Handle Most Of What Mother Nature Throws Around

There were three primary reasons both Mark and his client decided to go with an Everlast Epoxy Outdoor Tough Natural Stone floor.

1. The client was able to mix and match the stones that they wanted, to reach the right color scheme for their preferences.
2. Because the material is troweled onto the floor and it has a natural thickness to it, it fit right into the grooves and filled them up nicely.
3. Due to the honeycomb nature of the Natural Stone material, water and moisture would naturally dissipate through the material and prevent the damaging freezing/thawing effects of winter from causing harm to the flooring material. Also, because of the honeycomb nature of the floor, any water making its way up from underneath the concrete to the surface would have an easy way out.

And as a cherry on top, the owners wanted special luminescence rocks sprinkled into the floor for some exciting nighttime viewing pleasures.

As you can see, the final floor is quite the sight! Everlast Natural Stone is bringing the moon right into your garden!

From a technical standpoint, there is one thing I want to emphasize with Outdoor Tough.

It doesn’t use epoxy glue.

Epoxy glue is simply not built for outdoor use, even though many flooring manufacturers use epoxy glue in their outdoor products. Epoxy glue doesn’t handle UV Ray exposure for too long, causing rocks to come loose and yellow.

Many customers have come to us here at Everlast Epoxy and complained about how their outdoor floors started to look old after only a few years.

Everlast Epoxy Outdoor Tough uses polyavastic glue, which is designed to handle adverse weather conditions with ease.

For more information visit www.everlastepoxy.com/natural-stone-flooring or call 800-708-9870