Historic renovation of Capitol Hill Seventh Day Adventist Church
            in  Washington, DC.

Concrete coated with a decorative cement finish.

sealed with roof patch A bonding coat is applied
First thing-The area around the new concrete and the painted stucco was sealed with roof patch.
The new concrete was left rough for a good bond for our finish. A bonding coat is applied using flex-con half and half with water, portland cement, and medium sand blasting sand.
The sand blasting sand is used for strength.
Linux
PosteRazor
I edited my picture of a lamp with Paint shop pro 7, which works fine in Linux using wine. I quit using Microsoft Windows a few years ago and haven't looked back.
The next step was to blow up my lamp using
PosteRazor. Each rectangle represents a 8-1/2 by
11 sheet.
I printed out my poster on heavy card stock
a pencil outline of the lamp
I printed out my poster on heavy card stock  and cut out the pages. Here, I taped the pages together on a sheet of plywood.
The reason for the poster was to draw a pencil outline of the lamp on our new basecoat.

An
              outline for the lamp
a lamp
              unto my feet, a light unto my path
An outline for the lamp is taped off using, what else ? Masking tape.
After the mortar starts to set the tape is pulled off
and now we have a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path.
Glass is packed down good
The border makes the lamp stand
              out.
Glass is packed down good as Hazel looks on.
Next, we taped off the border before applying the rest of the finish. The border makes the lamp stand out.
The black sand for the finish is
              "Black Beauty"
The surface has a float finish for
              traction.
The black sand for the finish is "Black Beauty" which is a slag product. The finish is the same as we use for stucco: 1 bag white portland, one fourth bag of lime and 200 lbs. sand.
The surface has a float finish for traction.
Tape peeled off,
              leaving a border.
Seventh Day Adventist logo
Tape peeled off, leaving a border.
Seventh Day Adventist logo is done the same way.
We sprayed the
              designs with 5 cans of heavy duty polyurethane.
blowing the fine
              part away with a fan


We sprayed the designs with 5 cans of heavy duty
polyurethane. I know some of the glass will get knocked loose, but this should hold it real good.
Crushing the glass left a fine powder in the
bottom of the buckets. The powder is separated
by pouring it back and forth into buckets and
blowing the fine part away with a fan.
I found out that you can buy crushed colored glass
online already screened to size. Now I know that,
we can save a huge amount of effort in the future.
Historic stucco renovation of
              Capitol Hill Seventh Day Adventist Church in Washington,
              DC.



Now the church has an inviting entrance, and
historically accurate as well.

The black sand and white portland finish looks
cool when it is wet, like the granite in the curbs in Capitol Hill.