Blog: facade advice and flexible stone

Practical articles on cladding facades with flexible stone: choosing a texture, installation, insulation, cost and common mistakes.

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Modern house with a facade of four textures: beige stone, dark slate, a grey brick plinth and a wood-clad entrance recess News
25.09.2026
How to combine stone, brick, slate and wood on a facade
Four textures on one house are not a problem as long as they have a hierarchy: one primary, one secondary, small accents. How to distribute stone, brick, slate and wood, choose the colour palette and plan the transitions so the facade reads as one whole.
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Two cube-shaped villas among pines: one clad in dark flexible stone, the other in light flexible stone with a stone texture News
24.09.2026
What happens to a facade after 10 years: flexible stone or porcelain stoneware
A new facade always looks good. The difference between flexible stone and porcelain stoneware shows after hundreds of heating and cooling cycles, rain and frost: weight, colour, water, repairs, complex shapes. What 10 years reveal, and what to compare before choosing.
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Dark brick facade in winter beside a thermal image of the house with heat-loss zones and a window junction cutaway News
23.09.2026
Thermal bridges that can compromise your home's insulation
Expensive insulation does not help if heat escapes through corners, reveals, the plinth, board joints and fasteners. What a thermal bridge is, where it appears most often, how to see it with a thermal camera, and what to check before installation starts.
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Dark modern house in the rain: grey textured stone plinth, wet terrace paving and a lit entrance News
21.09.2026
Why the plinth of a house ages the fastest
The plinth gets everything at once: splashes from walkways, meltwater, freeze-thaw cycles, dirt and accidental knocks. Why the lowest part of the facade loses its looks first, and what makes a plinth finish last: texture, colour, drainage and a proper transition to the wall.
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Dark modern house with a flexible stone facade in heavy rain, water streaming down the walls and the glass balustrade News
18.09.2026
What happens to insulation if the facade lets water in
A small leak through a joint, a window reveal or a flashing looks trivial, but if water regularly gets inside the facade system the insulation suffers first. Where the water goes, the signs that give it away and what to check before winter.
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KORDEKO installer pressing an anthracite flexible tile onto combed adhesive, next to a stack of tiles and a KORDEKO box News
18.09.2026
How much a flexible-tile facade weighs: 3–4 kg/m²
When choosing cladding we look at colour, texture and price, but weight decides the load on the walls, the insulation, the fixings and the logistics. KORDEKO flexible tile weighs 3–4 kg/m² — here is what that means on a real facade.
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House with an anthracite flexible-stone facade in bright sun, black windows, a downpipe and a covered terrace News
18.09.2026
Dark facade in the sun: heat, fading, installation
Graphite, anthracite, deep grey: dark facades are in fashion, but owners ask how they behave in the sun. Heating, fading, texture and installation — what makes a dark facade last.
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Two-storey house clad in beige flexible stone, black windows, a downpipe and a covered terrace in winter News
18.09.2026
Insulated house, cold walls: where the heat escapes
Corners that freeze, a draught by the windows, heating bills that barely move — after insulating. Usually the insulation isn't the problem; the details are: thermal bridges, reveals, plinth, joints, damp and the finish.
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Anthracite flexible stone facade in the rain, with a metal sill under the window, a canopy over the entrance and a downpipe News
14.09.2026
KORDEKO flexible tile and facade junctions without infiltration
Water rarely ruins a facade through the middle of the wall. It gets in through sills, drip flashings, canopies and joints. How junctions are executed so the walls stay dry.
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Grey-graphite flexible stone facade next to a play area, with balls on the wet paving and fallen hail News
11.09.2026
An impact-resistant facade for the active areas of the yard
Balls, bicycles, hail, car doors and splashes from the parking space: in the yard, the facade takes knocks every day. How to choose a cladding that lasts and stays neat.
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Modern house clad in grey-anthracite flexible stone in the rain, with a downpipe on the corner, a protected plinth and wet paths News
11.09.2026
Protecting the facade from moisture: how to stop efflorescence
White stains and damp walls do not appear by chance. The cause is almost always water that stays on the facade or reaches the plinth constantly — and it is stopped with details, not with detergent.
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Facade of a seaside house clad in KORDEKO flexible stone, with the plinth and corners protected from salt News
08.09.2026
A seaside facade: salt-resistant flexible tile
Salt air, humidity and wind stress a facade more than an ordinary climate does. Which cladding, which plinth colour and which technical details last by the sea.
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