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Jobs in progress contains some 400+ pages. Here, you will find a wealth of informaton on the world's oldest building trade, plaster, both interior plaster, and exterior cement plaster, also known as stucco. Please check it out. A table of contents is forthcoming, like I did on the Stucco News.  

Toll Brothers garbage replaced in Vienna, Virginia
Metal lath nailed to cardboard on this Toll Brothers house in Vienna, Virginia
 Somebody nailed metal lath on cardboard.
Therma ply is silver cardboard, and isn't meant
to carry the weight of mortar. This is the reason
these walls were buckling and falling off.
     This was one of the houses that Toll Brothers
replaced the EIFS with one-coat synthetic
sono wall.
     Over 140 houses in northern Virginia were done
by a unlicensed contractor from Chicago.
     You have to be mighty stupid to nail metal lath to
therma ply.
Of course, we nailed the new lath to the studs.
Synthetic stucco replaced with real stucco in Vienna, Virginia
 Toll Brothers fake stucco chimney in the Washington, DC area
Finished Product:  Self-furring metal lath, nailed to the studs this time, an honest 3/4" cement basecoat with a real Cement and sand finish coat.
The wall is later painted to match the toxic synthetic
finish on the rest of the house.
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 The chimney, also was loose and ready to pop off.
You could wiggle the stucco with your hand. If you live
in a Toll Bros. house, maybe you should wear a hard hat.
Note how the synthetic finish bubbles up when it
traps water.
  More details here
Toll Brothers replaced EIFS on over 140 houses in northern Virginia
 Tell me this chimney doesn't leak
The walls here are so loose you can wiggle them.
Toll Brothers replaced EIFS on over 140 houses in
northern Virginia about 2003 with this junk, metal lath, a thin cement basecoat, and a synthetic finish.
 Please click here or on the pictures for more.
 Tell me this chimney doesn't leak. A couple shovelfuls of mortar may have saved this chimney. This is fast and cheap for you.
More details here
Stucco make over in Arlington, VA
Stucco make over in Arlington, VA
ornamental stucco in Arlington, Virginia
BEFORE:
The old wall was a little shabby looking.
The top was flat allowing water to penetrate over
the years.

Please click here or on the pictures to see how we did it.
AFTER:
I cast a medallion to put on the finished wall.
The top was rounded off for good water runoff, so maybe it will last longer this time.

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Front entrance wall
The front wall re-stuccoed
BEFORE:
Front entrance wall had seen better days.

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AFTER:
The front wall was extended up 2 courses of block and re-stuccoed. How do you like my round peek through ?

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Stucco repair in the Washington, DC area
Historic plastering in VA
BEFORE:
Deteriorated areas were chopped out and filled in.

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AFTER:
The wall was extended up 3 courses of block for privacy and re-stuccoed to look like new.

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Stucco replaced in Arlington, Virginia
Old stucco stripped off to the old wood lath
ABOVE: ^
Old stucco stripped off to the old wood lath.
LEFT: ----------->
Badly deteriorated chimney repaired.
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 deteriorated chimney repair
Stucco chimney replaced in Washington, DC
chimney in Washington, DC
The top of this chimney was left wide open when
the stucco was done about 30 years ago, leading to rot.
The whole thing was torn down and rebuilt.
 stucco chimney in Washington, DC.