The Allison, Newberg, Ore.
While the stone doesn’t have the same degree of abrasion resistance as granite, a bush-hammered finish will – over time – allow the stone to obtain a soft patina.
For the interior, Yellow Mountain supplied the stone as 30” X 30” tiles at a 1.2cm gauge.
“We supplied them with a glassless mesh backing to make sure they were going to be as robust as they needed to be at that size,” Williams says. “We also wound up using a resin impregnator-sealer on them.”
The limestone pavers are in 5cm and 8cm thicknesses. Williams says it’s his understanding that the interior stone was installed using a thin-set mortar system, while the exterior pavers were installed with straight mortar.
John Duty, vice president of Don Frank Co., the Portland, Ore.-based company that installed much of the interior flooring, says his company was on the stone portion of the job about six weeks. Don Frank also does other types of flooring work, and spent about six months on the project.
“Our job was broken into two sections,” says Duty. “There were the common areas, including the spa and the restaurant and the lobby, and then there was the guest wing. We started in the guest wing and that took about three months to do. Then we moved to the common areas and that took another three months.”
Duty, who has worked with Yellow Mountain before, describes the company as, “awesome to work with,” and that company’s Williams says it was no problem keeping the approximately 5,500 ft² of Redheart Limestone and approximately 2,000 ft² of Black Slate supplied to the job, despite the distance the stone had to travel.
“Our lead times from approval to shop drawings to delivery on the job run between nine and 13 weeks,” Williams says. “We operate on about the same time frame as getting cut-to-fit materials domestically. In a lot of cases, our times are shorter.”
Time was a critical factor on the job, and Lease Crutcher’s Mills says all those involved performed admirably.
“This was a fast-track project, so there was definitely a push to get product,” he says. “I know we were tracking shipments that were coming in from many different countries so we knew exactly when it would get in and be available. There was a lot of coordination and tracking.”
GGLO’s Schaefer agrees.
“We would weigh different factors in making sure the timeline was met,” she says. “In some cases, if the timeline was not there, we went to plan B. We were very aware that we didn’t want to create problems for the contractor, which would then create problems for the owner. That was very important to us.”
Ultimately, though, the project was completed on time, and received notification of its Gold LEED certification in April. Now that it’s done, many of those involved say it was a once-in-a-lifetime job.