My wife wants stone to run part way up the wall from (roughly) the ground to just under teh windows. Seen it a million times. To me it is cliche, and makes no sense. Sure fake a stone foundation, but run it half way up a wall? Show me a historical building built with real stone that way … Ok anyway.
If you do this, what is the building practice to transition from the foundation up to over the wall shealthing? Typically wall shealthing is proud of the cement foundation. Do you have to plan for this and set the wall back flush with the foundation? What if the foundation is out of square, then you are back to square one even if you try to push the wall back.
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best Practices
What are best practices in this case
I've seen real buildings with stone half walls.
They were in areas where stone was plentiful, and lumber costly. Basically, they had to move the stone from the interior to begin construction. It is hard to make well controled window openings in stacked stone, so they built up to the base of windows, then went up the rest of the way with wood.
So far as how to do it right, the stone manufacturer's sites have details, of how to do the flashing, and water proofing involved.
This is an example: http://www.culturedstone.com/technical/details.aspx