>
Jobs in progress #127-updated January 21, 2013
Historic renovation of Capitol Hill 7th Day Adventist Church in Washington, DC
Just like 1910 again. We finished the the front walls from last update. The finish coat is REAL white portland cement and REAL white sand.
The balcony walls and our columns are painted white. We have some decorative concrete coating and other interesting work here.
Traditional stucco in Washington, DC
The original house is chipped and coated with a bonding coat. The finish coat will be a steel troweled finish
More info....
The addition showing tarpaper and self furring metal lath.
See how we did it..
Doing it right. The old stucco is cut back allowing the flanges on the copper roofs to be nailed to the sheathing. Overlapped with tar paper and stucco these roofs can't leak.
More details here:
The old painted stucco is chipped and prepared for a bonding coat.
More here:
A metal brake is used to bend copper flashing for over the windows.
Click for more:
Metal flashing is put on first, then a layer of tarpaper.
Click for more:
The bottom of the foundation walls have a correct weep screed put on. The holes in the weep screed allow for drainage of the stucco, reducing expansion.
more:
The concrete is chipped for added insurance the stucco won't fail. An acrylic bonding admixture is used in the scratch coat to ensure a permanent bond.
more:
Conventional stucco addition in Arlington, Virginia.
A new traditional stucco addition has a dash on texture.
New texture matches old house on the money.
The finish coat material is white portland cement and coarse concrete sand, like the original.
Addition in Cathedral Heights area in Washington, DC
