What type of project are you planning? If it's an individual rock, an excellent tutorial is posted at the below website by Dena6355. Take a look and perhaps it will be helpful. (Check out her other albums too for other project inspirations.) You might also find other information by searching "fake rock" Here is a link that might be useful: Dena's how to make a fake rock.

eriky....Thanks for sharing your thoughts on our faux rock. Our PB said the costs are roughtly about the same, but I think it depends on how much rock and how labor intensive the rock kit from Rico Rock is. They have modular kits, hybrid kits and also entirely custom jobs with onsite trained labor to use a combination of their products to create the design intent. They sell only through local PB's who have prior installation experience or attended training courses. The modular kits can be installed by handy DIY'ers and only require mortar. The hybrid kits require trained labor as these kits require rebar, concrete and some forming prior to concrete pouring. The custom jobs are done by trained folks who have expertise in using combinations of boulders and rock panels to create large rock formations...there's some impressive structures on their website...including a pool house that is made entirely of Rico Rock product and looks like a massive rock structure from the outside but has televisions, wet bar and hot tub inside! Ours was a combination of modular and hybrid kits and we had someone from their headquarters in Orlando, FL on site for a few days to help the PB hands with installation. I was also there the entire time to makes sure the boulders were placed as specified and make any last minute changes in boulder placement to create the look we wanted. For this part of the country, the labor was about the same as the actual product costs...example, if the boulder/kit costs were $10K total, the labor to install would be $10K for a total cost of $20K for the entire rock job. This will likely vary depending on region of the country and local labor costs. Hope this helps!

I thought the phish phosils were pharoh's... Neil, I was going to mention your wonderful pantry. I know what you mean by being able to tell when a stone is cultured, but you can also tell when it's sliced natural stone. In fact, some of the sliced stone I've seen seems more pointedly 'fake' than the faux stuff. I want to strongly second Jeichlere's point about using cultured stone in a 'natural' way-- it simply looks better. Consider this: it's completely possible to install cultured stone on a ceiling. Why don't we see it there? Because it would be jarring. It isn't just a matter of looking 'natural': most of us can spot the difference between real and otherwise. When the 'otherwise' is used in a responsible way, we enjoy it for the color, texture, rythum, etc. it brings to the space. If it registers on some level that it isn't real, fine-- that's just a small part of the picture, and not an important one. If it's used badly it doesn't whisper 'fake', it screams 'FAKE!!!' in a way that drowns out all other design statements. I'm using a massive swath of 'lick and stick' in the living room-- about 8x23 feet. Would use it in the kitchen too, if I had a spot for it. But I'd keep it well out of the cooking zone as I'm pretty certain you couldn't get any smoke/grease deposits off without removing most of the color as well. I'd want it at least 6 feet from the range, and even then, I'd be fanatical about using the vent system [real, not recirculating] when frying sauteing searing broiling roasting... pretty much everything but boiling. Closer to the cooking zone, I'd use a real stone that can withstand pretty vigorous cleaning, including the occasional use of caustic chemicals, because you just never know.

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