From: Art Todesco 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Matching faux stone outside house
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:21:06 GMT

Alex wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The house my wife and I are looking at buying has what I'd call faux
> stone on the outside of the front, and at some point they added a hole
> to the front living room (next to front door) for an A/C unit.  I'd
> like to patch this up, but I'm not sure how to match the faux stone on
> the front of the house.  I looked through my photos of the house and
> found these two pictures (ignore the cat...).
> 
> http://www.hotlug.org/house1.jpg
> http://www.hotlug.org/house2.jpg
> 
> In the first picture you can see the window unit near the front door,
> and in second photo is a closer look at the fake stone.  It appears
> they used brick mortar or similar for the stone, so if I could just
> find a replacement for the stone and match the colors (variety of
> colors on the house), then that should work.  Problem is finding a
> similar stone to use.
> 
> Any suggestions?  The are is only about 3'x2'.  Also if anyone has
> other suggestions on how to 'hide' this on the front porch so it's not
> so apparent, that'd work as well.
> 
> Thanks for your time and help --
> 
> Alex
One way that's aways worked for me is to 
harvest the stone from a
spot that is not in plain view and us it 
to fix the hole.  Then, use new
stone which is a close match in the 
inconspicuous place where you
harvested the stone for the hole.