Old stucco had been re coated using a chemical bonder and two coats of mortar. Stucco failed due
to lack of roof coping.
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Jobs in progress #151
Updated November, 2017
Re-stucco in the Cleveland Park area
Washington, DC
Old stucco had been re coated using a chemical bonder and two coats of mortar. Stucco failed due to lack of roof coping.
Finished wall showing new copper coping. Metal roof was also repaired.
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Chipping hammer is used to remove loose and failing mortar.
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Stucco is re coated using mortar with plenty of Flex-con, an acrylic bonder, in the basecoat.
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Finish coat is troweled smooth like original.
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Just like 1921 again.
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Band on chimney is made by forming with lumber and filling in with cement mortar.
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Branded chimney crown with embedded quarters. Maybe someone will see this one day.
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Pebble dash stucco replaced
in Purcellville, Virginia
Stucco falling off is due to deteriorated wood lath and furring.
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Windows, porches and everything covered with masonite and correx before tearing off the stucco.
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Old stucco and wood lath stripped down to the sheathing.
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New tarpaper, self furring metal lath and mortar.
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Back is our sand mix, foreground is our pebble mix.
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Just like 1920 again.
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Historic re stucco on this circa 1830 house
in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Stucco is stripped down to the stone.
Counter flashing put on first. Portland cement mortar is mixed using half flexcon and half water.
Wall is rodded off using a one by four.
Original exposed stones were left exposed.
Finish coat is scored to look like stones.
Finish coat is white portland cement and coarse masonry sand.
Lath and stucco replaced
Downtown Washington, DC
Turn of the century clapboard house was stuccoed in the 1960's.
The reasons the stucco failed is the lath wasn't galvanized, and the lath was flat and not self furring.
Finish is cement and sand with blue paint tint.
Patch and match
Wall is taped off prepared for pebble dash finish.
