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                 updated August 12, 2013
   
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Jobs in progress contains some 400+ pages. Here, you will find a wealth of information on the world's oldest building trade, plaster, both interior plaster, and exterior cement plaster, also known as stucco. Please click on the last update button for more.
Since 1996 I've tried to have more of a provide information type site instead of a spammy sales pitch type site.
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Lath and plaster gothic vault ceiling. I did the whole ceiling with molding plaster and lime. It didn't have to be this good, because it got a color finish. I like to show I can still use a hawk and trowel.   See how I did it here:	Finished ceiling and hallway. The walls are brown coated with veneer plaster basecoat and a color finish applied. The ceiling is painted with transparent plaster bonder and the color finish put on. More details here:

Color veneer plaster
Foxhall Road area.
Washington, DC

We're finishing the house from last update. The picture shows the soft mottling and the rich sandy texture.   See more here.	Plastering the kitchen. The walls here are water resistant, scratch  resistant, and super hard. The walls here can be scrubbed with water and a metal scouring pad with no damage. See how we did it.
The finish coat is made of Keene's cement, a super hard gypsum plaster, silica sand and lime. Keene's is great for color or texture, because it sets slow, allowing large areas to be done at a time. More about color plaster here:	I took this picture in the sunlight to show our sandy texture. The light texture adds a lot of depth, even though the plaster is only about a quarter inch thick. See more.

Barrel vault ceiling
in Washington, DC

Freshly troweled plaster seems to glow. The ceiling is so dense and hard it should echo. For more,  check it out here.		We used conventional plaster brown mortar instead of veneer basecoat on the barrel to make sure it is dead straight and dead round. See how we did it.

The finish coat even matches the original sandy color from 1921. Color is from Expo stucco in San Diego. More details	The problem is the paint is already peeling badly after a few short years. The original paint just didn't bond that good to the stucco. We have a very durable, very permanent method of coating old painted stucco. See how we did it.

Flimsy EIFS garbage is easily peeled off these chimneys. Lying crooks sold  these as "stucco" houses. A lot of the buyers were foreigners or from other states and believed that these were stucco. Believe it or not, they still put this stuff on chimneys.	We put on metal lath, a thick cement basecoat and a REAL color portland cement finish. This chimney will never flap in the wind again.

  Patch and match.

Historic pebble dash stucco is repaired in Rockville, MD.	Montrose school was rescued by Peerless Rockville, that buys historic buildings slated to be torn down.

Thanks for visiting my site. There are more projects, including pebble dash repair
stucco additions and more, but I'm saving them for the next update.
I haven't updated my site in a while due to being on a workaholic trip.
We are working on some cool stuff now, including a cool silo,
replacing work by the competition, a unique plaster stairway and more.
Please check back.