What's so special about this
patch? We do lots of these and never take pictures. This house belongs to an ornamental plasterer named David Hytla. MORE..... |
Here is a picture of one of his
jobs. MORE..... |
Old stucco torn off on gables and dormer. | New lath and scratch coat. |
We found an area of the old house
that had never been painted to determine how they made the old texture in 1930. It's hard to tell after ump-teen layers of paint and whitewash. |
The brown coat is rubbed with a
rubber float
to pull the sand up. I used a concrete sand that was real coarse and teenie rocks in it. It matched the old stucco exactly. |
After the mortar sets, wall is
washed down by dashing water on the wall. This washes off the cement and exposes the aggregate. |
Finished dormer just like 1930. |