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Jobs in progress #133 -updated January 22, 2014
Cool stucco fire pit and seat in Arlington, Virginia
The fire pit is heated with a gas log and is filled with gravel
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Curved seat starts out as blocks.
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The seat itself is made using inch and a half channel iron and metal lath. Here a piece of corner rite, a strip of lath bent at an angle, is used to reinforce the seat and the backrest.
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Bricks are used for the fire pit to allow a tighter radius. No, we aren't bricklayers. We only lay bricks when they get stuccoed over and don't matter much what they look like.
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Stucco addition on a Spanish style house in Chevy Chase.
This Spanish style house has a Spanish tile roof and a Spanish texture. You can't get much more Spanish than this without going to Spain.
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Stucco arches and decorative cast columns accent the Spanish style.
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Our Spanish texture.
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Original Spanish texture. Window surrounds are painted on.
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Historic aggregated stucco in Afton, Virginia
A view of the old house shows different colored rocks and crushed green glass embedded in the stucco. The old glass was made from wine bottles broken up and screened to size.
Another satisfied customer poses with pride.
I matched the rock color fairly close and screened the rocks to size. I used stained glass instead of wine bottles. I got a reflective green glass from Jed at Washington Art Glass.
Retaining walls done by the competition re-done in Washington, DC
Serpent like retaining walls are re-stuccoed. You can see my heater in the background.
Eight year old synthetic stucco finish is badly deteriorated. The whole house can be peeled off with your fingernail. This material, when applied over a cement basecoatlasts less than 8 years.
Garage and
retaining walls stuccoed to match
in Washington, DC
A close up of the dash on texture on this Wardman house. Wardman built a lot of houses and over 20 apartment buildings in Washington in the 1920's and 30's.
Dash on stucco texture on this concrete retaining wall.
A close up of the dash on texture on this Wardman house in Washington DC
Basement on this old house livened up with white pebble dash stucco in Chevy Chase
White pebble dash stucco in Chevy Chase
