Synthetic stucco chimney re-done

Synthetic garbage
replaced on Toll Brothers Home,
Herndon, Virginia

Finished chimney matches almost exactly. Finish is REAL Portland cement and REAL sand. Color is "ivory" from Expo stucco.	Synthetic finish is flapping in the wind after 7 short years.

Band at top is foam EIFS. It already had holes in it. The top was coated with a thin coat of some crumbly stuff put over a plastic cloth.	Some stupid boy drove nails through the roof and covered the holes with some caulking, which had already dried up and was crumbling off. Apparently, there was a two by four or something nailed here for a scaffold, probably to put the synthetic garbage on the chimney.

Without a kick out flashing, water runs into the wall, and between the gutter and the wall.	Black stuff from the roof runs into the wall, and exits out of the wall.

I made a kick out flashing from a scrap piece of aluminium. Kick out is tucked behind the step flashing, and diverts water into the gutter. The synthetic stucco is cut away, and a counter flashing is put on. We re-did the flashing, and fixed the holes on the roof.	We made chimney shoulders out of two flagstones. You may seen how we do this before. If not please click here.

Chimney cap was done in white.	I put 4 state quarters in the cap.
	There you have it, sports fans. I never thought the color would match this good. The color was left over from Jaime's Richmond, Virginia stucco house. I just happened to have enough. The flagstones are real flagstones and match the other stonework on the house. We're making videos on the job these days. Please come back and check them out.