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Jobs in progress #128 - updated March 25, 2013
Stucco stair tower. Washington, DC
The brown coat on this stucco stair tower is round and straight.
Please check out Swami's mystic rope trick here.
Traditional stucco, Foxhall Road area, Washington, DC
The back wall is finished.
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The finish coat is troweled after it sets firm to create a stone like appearance and feel. Mottling is created by the trowel burning the finish.
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Wondering how we did the round window sills on the stair tower ?.
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Work by the competition rots this four year house in Arlington, Virginia
The worst thing about this house is that under the windows is level and not angled away from the wall. Underneath the fake stucco is nothing but wood framing: no sill, no flashing, nothing but a piece of Tyvek. People who put this stuff on: You aren't stucco contractors. These lying crooks told the homeowner this was real stucco.
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The main reason we don't use expansion joints on our jobs is that I think the look bad. If someone insists on joints, we make our own and not the pre-made metal joints. Metal expansion joints tend to leak and damage everything underneath
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There was no coping on the parapet wall. All that was on the top was fake stucco.
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More rot under the windows. This work was done by my competition. This house has a thin cement basecoat and a fake finish. The competition just doesn't have the skills to put on the real thing.
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Conventional stucco addition in Arlington, Virginia.
Rodding off the brown coat. Note the stucco soffits. Stucco soffits are permanent, and hurricane-proof the house. This is phase two of this project.
See phase one here:
Sills are solid mortar and the top is angled down to prevent water infiltration.
Stucco ceilings: Lasting quality. Here is the scratch coat on the ceiling on the front of the house.
Patch and match
Termite damage is repaired and stucco replaced on this house in the Glover Park area of Washington, DC.
The front wall is re-stuccoed up the the first story line. Just as a warning from someone who has fixed a lot of termite damage, if the level of your wood framing is below the level of the grade, you are likely to get termites. After years of soil erosion, landscape projects, etc., this can happen.
Outdoor fireplace and chimney is stuccoed in the Lake Barcroft area. No, we didn't do the fresco painting.
We're tearing off sloppy patches done by Handy Andy. We put on metal flashing over the horizontal tudor boards.
