Jobs in progress #164
Updated October, 2020 !
Almost 22 years of jobs in progress !
REAL 3/4 inch thick stucco with a REAL cement and sand finish
McLean, Virginia
Finish texture is randomly troweled to add movement and depth. Each panel is a little different.
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The top panels shown here are natural white cement and white sand. The bottom panels are colored using paint tint. The panels are defined using aluminum channel screeds.
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Old house is torn down and a new zip wall box is built.
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We spray painted flashing and put it on over the windows, angled down and away from the building. The window manufacturer angled the top of the windows in toward the building.
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The roofs are covered with plastic, plastic sheets, and tarpaper. The mission is not to get a drop of mortar on the roof.
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I ordered the aluminum channel screed from Flannery Aluminum Trim in San Fernando, California.
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Color plaster fireplace
in McLean, Virginia
Durock is painted with the original Larsen's Plaster Weld.
We used veneer plaster basecoat for the basecoat. It is made to go on thin and is super hard.
Color is made by pouring black paint colorant onto the lime.
Color is partially mixed in. Lime ring is opened up and moulding plaster is gauged in.
Here is a video how we make finish plaster
Plaster is troweled smooth, enhaancing mottled colors.
There you have it, sports fans, a veritable work of art.
Plastering at the Arts Club of Washington
in Washington, DC
The Arts Club of Washington is an art museum, as well as a venue for jazz and classical music.
James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, lived here from about 1811 until the end of his presidency. Monroe moved into the executive mansion now called the White House, in 1817, after the mansion was rebuilt. The British burned the mansion in 1814.
Loose plaster stripped off old bricks.
Molding plaster and lime allow for same day completion, and provides a rock hard product. Here, mortar is rodded off.
Plaster is troweled smooth. Just like 1802 again.
Another rainy day, another bathroom.
Pebble dash stucco replaced on this 1915 house
in Washington, DC
Old stucco stripped off. Sheathing is replaced with zip wall, and new windows put in.
Just like 1915 again. I'll have more details the next update. Please check back.
Patch and match
3/8 inch gravel matches on the money on this patch in Washington, DC.
Doing it right. Stucco is cut off the old wall and counter flashing is put on for a new copper roof. Later, the roof will slide under the flashing. Stucco is then patched back. This allows the flashing to go under the stucco, and not over the stucco.
More crummy coping in Reston, Virginia. The original coping is angled into the wall, causing leaks and the stucco to fail.
