PROJECT

PHOTOS

Keep on stuccoing

February  19 -21, 2004

scratch coat on dining room wall

dining room near kitchen

a/c inlet/outlet

upper level of scratch coat

adding more to low spots - dark area

finished stucco up to window area

finished stucco coat to window in bedroom

using one batch of stucco

reaching up to 7 foot level behind cabinets

Billy's area of work from the back door

all sponged and finished (dark areas)

We got a lot done in the past few days, finding our rhythm in the stucco process. We fired the temporary workers we had two days in a row because their work was just awful. Billy and I got more done (just the two of us ) in a few hours - than the whole team we had hired did in a whole day. There is a certain finesse to this type of work and Billy and his dad both have the touch. I spend most of the time cleaning up behind them and gophering for them, giving them more stucco and handing them tools. Billy has some more chipping to do around the living room windows and the upstairs windows. Larry Regier came over for a while on Saturday to give us a hand and he ended up staying over 6 hours, he got addicted to stucco! He and Billy got a lot done by themselves and really made the kitchen and dining room walls look great.

over the dining room window

showing finished stucco behind stairwell

backlit of guest room stucco

working off of scaffold to the 11' level

finished stucco at edge of ceiling

Larry applying second coat to kitchen wall

smoothing out the layer on the previous coat

more on the wall

Larry's finished sponge coat

they are beat, after 6 hours