Natural Stone Wall Cladding — Springwood, Logan
Natural Stone Wall Cladding Springwood
Before the stone: work out whose wall it is
Stacked stone panels and free-form loose stone, plus a warehouse counter at 3362 Pacific Highway, Springwood — call before you drive over. Stone and Rock supplies natural stone wall cladding in two formats: interlocking stacked stone panels sold by the box, and free-form loose stone fitted piece by piece. Cladding is not a surface decision the way a floor is. Our product page for the Golden Mushroom stacked stone panels states their weight requires mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive — so fasteners go into the wall, and what the wall is made of matters more than the colour on the front of it. In a suburb where many homes are attached to another one, the first question is whose wall it is. Call 1300 113 260 and ask what is on the display walls at 3362 Pacific Highway, Springwood before you drive over.
Three questions come before the stone, and none of them is about colour. Whose wall is it, and is anyone else's property on the other side of it. What is it built of, and is it sound enough to fix into. And who has to agree before fasteners go into it. Stone and Rock's own product page for the Golden Mushroom stacked stone panels answers none of those for your address, but it does explain why they matter: the panels need mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive, and a sound substrate to fix into. Once those three are settled, the format question is straightforward. The range runs to interlocking stacked stone panels sold by the box and free-form loose cladding sold as individual pieces, and the two are laid and estimated differently, so the format comes before the quantity. Samples are free, credited against your next purchase, limited to three per order as standard and shipped within three working days from Queensland — useful if the wall is one you have to get someone else to agree to.
Why natural stone matters in Springwood
A wall is not a floor, and here it is often not only yours
On a floor the ground carries the load and the surface is unarguably yours. A wall is different on both counts, and in Springwood that difference comes up more often than it does across most of Queensland. The 2021 Census recorded 23.7% of occupied private dwellings here as semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses, against 11.7% for Queensland and 12.6% nationally. That figure describes dwelling type and nothing more: it does not tell you how any particular wall was built, who owns it, or where a boundary runs. What it does say is that a reader here is likelier than most Queenslanders to be facing a wall with something other than their own yard on the far side.
So the first question is not which stone. It is whose wall.
That question has weight because of how the stone is held up. Stone and Rock's own product page for its Golden Mushroom stacked stone panels states that the weight requires mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive. Mechanical fixing means fasteners driven into the wall. Cladding has stopped being a finish at that point and become work done to the structure — the kind of work that needs agreeing with anyone else who has an interest in the wall before the stone is ordered.
Permission comes before colour
Two standards, and one question to settle first
Only your own title, survey and, where one exists, your body corporate can tell you which applies. If the wall is shared with a neighbour, sits on or near a boundary, forms part of an attached dwelling, or is common property, permission becomes a task in the job and it belongs in front of the colour decision. If the wall is freestanding in your own yard, go straight to format.
Either way, two standards are worth knowing about. AS 3958:2023 covers preparation of the background and the bonded fixing and grouting of floor and wall tiles including panels, applies to internal and external laying, and covers backgrounds and their suitability to receive a bedded finish. The second is named for this exact work: AS 4214:2018 'Fixing of Stone Veneer'. Ask your installer about both — and settle who has a say in the wall before either standard becomes your problem.
Why settle all this early? On the tenure figures, two-thirds of Springwood's occupied dwellings are owned rather than rented — 38.3% owned with a mortgage, above Queensland's 34.4%, and 28.5% owned outright. That measures tenure and nothing else. But where the person choosing the stone is also the owner, an unresolved question about a shared wall stays with whoever fixed stone to it.
The range
Two cladding formats, and the rest of the range behind them
Stacked Stone Cladding Panels
Interlocking stacked stone panels sold by the box for feature walls, pillars, facades and fence faces, laid with butt joints for a dry-stacked look.
See stacked stone panels →Free-Form Loose Stone Cladding
Free-form loose wall cladding sold as individual pieces and fitted piece by piece, for random-coursed and irregular stone wall finishes.
See free-form loose stone →Natural Stone Tiles and Pavers
Travertine, limestone, marble, granite and porcelain in tile and paver formats for floors, patios, paths and pool surrounds — the horizontal half of the range.
See tiles and pavers →Landscaping Stone
Crazy paving, stepping stones, cobbles, pebbles and loose landscaping stone for paths, garden beds and retaining faces.
See landscaping stone →Samples
Free samples with the cost credited against your next purchase, a standard limit of three per order, shipped within three working days from Queensland.
Order free samples →See the texture
Stone wall cladding, close up
Natural Stone Wall Cladding
Cloudy grey, on a vertical face
Natural Stone Wall Cladding
Blue steel rustic tones
Free-Form Loose Stone Cladding
Sold as individual pieces, fitted one at a time
Free-Form Loose Stone Cladding
Coverage depends on how it is laid
Photos are cladding from the Stone and Rock range, shown for colour and texture reference. A stacked stone panel only shows its shadow lines once it is standing up and lit from the side, so a display wall or a sample is the way to judge it.
What to settle before you order
Where cladding orders usually go wrong
Ordering stone for a wall that is not entirely yours to fix into
Attached dwellings are a much larger share of housing here than they are statewide: the 2021 Census put semi-detached, row or terrace houses and townhouses at 23.7% of Springwood's occupied private dwellings, against 11.7% across Queensland. That statistic measures dwelling type only — it establishes nothing about any specific wall — but it does mean the odds of a wall having another party's interest attached to it are higher here than in most Queensland suburbs.
Cladding is not paint. The supplier's own product page for the Golden Mushroom panels states the weight requires mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive, so the job puts fasteners into the wall. If the wall is shared, sits on a boundary, or is common property, that is a change somebody else may have a say in, and finding out afterwards is the expensive version.
We supply the stone; the ownership question is yours to close, and it is worth closing before you commit to a quantity. Check the title and survey for the boundary, and where a scheme administers the property, ask whoever runs it what they need to see. Free samples, limited to three per order as standard and shipped within three working days from Queensland, exist partly so you have something physical to put in front of that conversation.
Treating the choice as a surface decision when the supplier's own advice is about fixing
Cladding is sold on appearance, so the browsing happens in colours and textures. The Golden Mushroom product page is largely about something else: mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive, and a sound substrate to fix it into.
Those are the supplier's own recommendations on its own product page, not a code obligation and not legal advice. Read as recommendations they still reorder the job: the fixing method and the substrate are decided before the stone arrives, and on a wall you share they may need agreeing with somebody first.
Our Golden Mushroom product page states the fixing method and the substrate requirement alongside the dimensions, so the specification can go to an installer before anything is ordered. Bring that installer in early, and call 1300 113 260 if the page does not answer the question in front of you.
Taking one product's weight as the weight of stone cladding generally
One published figure gets quoted for everything. Stone and Rock's product page for the Golden Mushroom cultured quartzite panels states about 7.5kg per panel and about 72kg per square metre, with each 20 x 40 x 1.5cm panel covering 0.5 square metres and six panels to a box. Those figures are published for that line. Whether anything similar holds for another line is a question for the specification of that line, not an assumption.
Roughly 72kg per square metre is the reason the same page says adhesive alone is not the fixing method for those panels. Carrying that figure across to a different product, or assuming a lighter one behaves the same way, is how a fixing method gets chosen for the wrong load.
We publish the panel size, the weight per panel and per square metre, the coverage and the box count together on that line's product page. Ask for the same specification on the exact line you are buying before your installer settles a fixing method, on 1300 113 260.
Working out the quantity before deciding on the format
A square-metre figure for the wall is not an order quantity yet: what it converts into depends on which format you choose. The range comes in two formats that are laid differently: interlocking stacked stone panels sold by the box, and free-form loose cladding sold as individual pieces. Panels give a repeating module and a published coverage — 0.5 square metres each, six to a box for the Golden Mushroom line. Free-form loose stone is fitted piece by piece, so how much a given area takes depends on how it is laid.
The two formats produce different estimates from the same wall, and they produce different-looking walls. Deciding quantity first locks in an assumption about a format nobody has chosen yet.
Pick the format, then measure to it. Elevations are also where people go wrong on walls in a way they do not on floors — measure the actual face you intend to clad, counting any face that turns a corner as its own area and any area behind a fixture, rather than scaling it from a photo. Order the samples for the formats you are choosing between before you count anything.
Choosing a cladding stone from a screen
Cladding is a three-dimensional product photographed flat. A stacked stone panel is built up from smaller pieces — the Golden Mushroom panels are 20 x 40 x 1.5cm made up of 10 x 20 x 1.5cm pieces — and the shadow lines that give it its character only appear when it is standing up and lit from the side.
A wall is usually the most-looked-at surface in a courtyard or an entry, and the finish is not returnable once it is fixed. If the wall is shared or overlooked, other people have an opinion on it too, and a screenshot is a poor way to have that conversation.
There are display walls at the Springwood warehouse, 3362 Pacific Highway, and customer pickup inside staffed hours, with no after-hours self check-in. Call 1300 113 260 before you drive over and ask what is up on them. If the trip does not suit, order up to three free samples with the cost credited against your next purchase, shipped within three working days from Queensland.
About the supplier
Who you are buying from, and what is actually at Springwood
The trading entity is Stone and Rock Pty Ltd, ABN 21 621 132 090 (ACN 621 132 090), an Australian private company with an ABN active from 6 April 2018 and a main business location recorded on the Australian Business Register in Queensland postcode 4106. 3362 Pacific Highway is therefore a warehouse and pickup counter with display walls, not a head office and not the registered address. What is at the address is display walls, customer pickup and staffed trading hours, with no after-hours self check-in. Behind it sits a range that runs from tiles and pavers to stone wall cladding, stacked stone panels, landscaping stone, mosaics and sealers. Its Golden Mushroom stacked stone line has a published product page carrying the panel size, the weight per panel and per square metre, the coverage and the fixing method.
Nearby & related
More cladding and stone across Logan
Questions we hear
Springwood wall cladding FAQ
The wall between us and next door — can we clad our side of it?⌄
That depends on facts about your property that no website can see, and it is worth resolving before you choose a stone. The relevant point from our side is that cladding is fixed work, not a coating: the product page for our Golden Mushroom stacked stone panels states their weight requires mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive, so fasteners go into the wall. Where a wall is shared with a neighbour, sits on or near a boundary, or forms part of an attached dwelling, that is usually a conversation before it is a purchase. Your title and survey settle where the boundary is, and where a scheme administers the property, whoever runs it can tell you what they need to see. This is a more common situation in Springwood than in most Queensland suburbs — the 2021 Census recorded 23.7% of occupied private dwellings here as semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses, against 11.7% statewide — though that is a measure of dwelling type and says nothing about your particular wall.
What does the wall behind the cladding have to be?⌄
Sound enough to fix into, and prepared before anything goes on it. Our Golden Mushroom product page requires a sound substrate and advises waterproofing the wall beforehand, because those panels are installed with butt joints and no grout. The Australian Standard for this kind of work starts in the same place: AS 3958:2023 covers preparation of the background and the bonded fixing and grouting of floor and wall tiles including panels, applies to internal and external laying, and covers the types and classes of backgrounds and their suitability to receive a bedded finish. What none of that can do is tell you what your wall is made of. Have it looked at by whoever will be fixing the stone, before you order.
How much do the panels weigh?⌄
For one specific product we can tell you exactly. Our product page for the Golden Mushroom natural stacked stone feature wall cladding panels states cultured quartzite panels of 20 x 40 x 1.5cm, made up of 10 x 20 x 1.5cm pieces, weighing about 7.5kg per panel and about 72kg per square metre, covering 0.5 square metres per panel, six panels to a box. Those figures belong to that line and should not be read across the range. About 72kg per square metre is also the reason the same page says the weight requires mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive. Ask us for the specification of the exact product you are buying before your installer settles the fixing method, on 1300 113 260.
Can I fix stone wall cladding myself?⌄
Read our own product page before you decide. For the Golden Mushroom panels it states that the weight requires mechanical fixing in addition to adhesive, recommends stainless steel angles in grade 304 or 316, recommends consulting a qualified engineer, requires a sound substrate, and notes wind load and thermal cycling as exterior considerations in coastal Queensland. Those are our recommendations on our own product page rather than a code requirement or legal advice. There is an Australian Standard named for this specific work — AS 4214:2018 'Fixing of Stone Veneer' — and naming it to an installer is a good way to find out how they intend to approach the job. If the wall is shared, on a boundary or part of an attached dwelling, settle the permission question before any of this.
How many boxes do I need?⌄
Decide the format first, because the two formats in the range are estimated differently. Interlocking stacked stone panels are sold by the box with a published coverage — the Golden Mushroom line covers 0.5 square metres per panel, six panels to a box. Free-form loose cladding is sold as individual pieces and fitted one at a time, so the area a given quantity covers depends on how it is laid. Measure the elevation you actually intend to clad rather than scaling it from a photograph, and count any face that turns a corner as its own area. If you are choosing between formats, order samples first: they are free, the cost is credited against your next purchase, the standard limit is three per order and they ship within three working days from Queensland.
Can we see the cladding before we buy it?⌄
Check before you make the trip rather than assume. Our Springwood site at 3362 Pacific Highway has display walls and customer pickup, inside staffed hours only — it trades Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday, with the Friday close at noon. Note the Friday close before you plan the trip. Call 1300 113 260 and ask what is on the walls before you drive over. The Sunshine Coast showroom at Baringa also has display walls and offers self-check-in viewing 7am–9pm daily, but pickup is not available there. If a display wall is not practical, order up to three free samples and look at them against your own wall in your own light. A stacked stone panel only shows its shadow lines once it is standing up and lit from the side, so judging one flat on a screen is not the same test.
Who am I actually buying from, and is Springwood the head office?⌄
You are buying from Stone and Rock Pty Ltd, an Australian private company whose ABN has been active since 6 April 2018. Springwood is not the head office and not the registered address: the Australian Business Register puts the main business location in Queensland postcode 4106, while the site you would drive to sits in 4127. What it is, is a warehouse and pickup counter with display walls. For an order the size of a wall, the company you are contracting with is worth two minutes on the register before you pay anything.
Where to collect
The Springwood warehouse, 3362 Pacific Highway
Display walls and customer pickup on site, inside staffed hours. No after-hours self check-in.
Settle the wall, then the stone
Bring us the elevation, and the format decision
Settle the wall before you settle the stone. If the wall is shared, on a boundary or part of an attached dwelling, get the permission question answered first; then bring the elevation, and the format decision, to us. There are display walls and customer pickup at 3362 Pacific Highway, Springwood, Monday to Thursday 8am–4pm, Friday 7am–12pm and Saturday 9am–2pm, closed Sunday, with no after-hours self check-in. Call 1300 113 260 to ask what is on the walls before you drive over, or email info@stoneandrock.com.au. If you would rather test the stone against your own wall and your own light first, order up to three free samples with the cost credited against your next purchase. Laying something horizontal as well — a patio, a path or a pool surround — is a different set of questions, and they are answered on our Springwood tiles and pavers page.
Product weights, dimensions, coverage and pack sizes are stated as published by Stone and Rock at the time this page was prepared and should be re-checked on the live product page before ordering; the Golden Mushroom figures belong to that line rather than to stone cladding as a category. The fixing and substrate guidance quoted here is the supplier's own recommendation on its own product page, not a code or legal requirement. AS 3958:2023 and AS 4214:2018 are named for reference; Business Queensland and Australian Business Register material is general information. Final specification of the fixing, the substrate and any waterproofing belongs with a qualified installer or engineer, and approval questions belong with a building certifier.