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Gothic vault ceiling in Washington, DC
Lath and plaster gothic vault ceiling. I did the whole ceiling with molding plaster and lime. It didn't have to be this good, because it got a color finish. I like to show I can still use a hawk and trowel.
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Finished ceiling and hallway. The walls are brown coated with veneer plaster basecoat and a color finish applied. The ceiling is painted with transparent plaster bonder and the color finish put on.
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Color veneer plaster, Washington, DC
We're finishing the house from last update. The picture shows the soft mottling and the rich sandy texture.
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Plastering the kitchen. The walls here are water resistant, scratch resistant, and super hard. The walls here can be scrubbed with water and a metal scouring pad with no damage.
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The finish coat is made of Keene's cement, a super hard gypsum plaster, silica sand and lime. Keene's is great for color or texture, because it sets slow, allowing large areas to be done at a time. .
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I took this picture in the sunlight to show our sandy texture. The light texture adds a lot of depth, even though the plaster is only about a quarter inch thick.
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Barrel vault ceiling in Washington, DC
Freshly troweled plaster seems to glow. The ceiling is so dense and hard it should echo.
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We used conventional plaster brown mortar instead of veneer basecoat on the barrel to make sure it is dead straight and dead round.
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Painted stucco re-coated in Washington, DC
The finish coat even matches the original sandy color from 1921. Color is from Expo stucco in San Diego.
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The problem is the paint is already peeling badly after a few short years. The original paint just didn't bond that good to the stucco. We have a very durable, very permanent method of coating old painted stucco.
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EIFS garbage replaced with REAL stucco. Alexandria, Virginia
Flimsy EIFS garbage is easily peeled off these chimneys. Lying crooks sold these as "stucco" houses. The buyers were foreigners and believed that these were stucco. Believe it or not, they still put this stuff on chimneys.
We put on metal lath, a thick cement basecoat and a REAL color portland cement finish. This chimney will never flap in the wind again.
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Historic pebble dash stucco is repaired in Rockville, MD.
