Jobs in progress #167
Updated July, 2021 !
Over 22 years of jobs in progress !
Siding replaced with blue stucco
in Silver Spring, Maryland
BEFORE: Vinyl siding was brittle and had a lot of moss.
AFTER: Siding replaced with stucco.
BEFORE: Back of house
AFTER: New blue stucco
Chimney was victimized by spalling brick and sloppy patches..
Chimney finished with blue stucco.
Siding is easily ripped off with bare hands by starting from the top. This siding was super easy because it was old and brittle.
Stucco fireplace and porch
in McLean, Virginia
Fireplace surround is built out using blocks. The top was made from metal studs and metal lath.
Enclosed porch had a nice rough white stucco finish.
Arts Club of
Washington, DC
Addition in the Arts Club sculpture garden gets new stucco. Proteus is back in town to share a cool design.
Design is marked off on the stucco brown coat with masking tape.
We put on our finish coat material, white portland cement and white sand, and pulled the tape off.
Next, the rest of the wall is finished.
Stucco on the back of townhouse
in Washington, DC
Townhouse in Northeast Washington had a mix of old sloppy stucco and old sloppy brick patches.
Finish coat is white portland cement and sand. Color is paint tint
from Sherwin-Williams.
Black stucco
in Alexandria, Virginia
Stucco on the back of this house near the Masonic Temple.
A whole gallon of black paint tint is added to our liquid mix.
Liquid is mixed with white portland and sand with a drill.
Black cement finish.
Stucco replaced in Wesley Heights
Washington, DC
Old stucco was buckling and coming loose.
New lath and stucco. Texture matches the 1920 finish.
Pebble Dash revisited
Washington, DC
A typical patch job on a pebble dash garage.
The garage is at this house we did in 2004.
A couple small projects
in Washington, DC
Patching plaster in the Arts Club of Washington. The inaugural ball was held in these two rooms in 1817. The White House was burned in 1812, and wasn't rebuilt yet.
Stucco on these dormers. To find out who lives here, listen to WPFW
on Sunday morning at 9. For the best variety of jazz on planet earth, online or at 89.3 fm in the Nation's Capital.
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