Greetings from Virginia, the most historic state.
All exterior finishes you see are REAL Portland cement and REAL sand and not the TOXIC SYNTHETIC (fake) junk that comes out of a bucket.
Did you know that making SYNTHETIC STUCCO finish, acrylic paint and other TOXIC building materials generates more pollution than all the car exhaust in the world ?

Beautiful stucco addition finished. Finish is REAL cement and sand. Color is from Espo stucco in San Diego. More...	Lath and stucco installation was done about 6 years ago by someone from Maryland. It was already falling off the wall. The plastic lath used was brittle, and apparently deteriorated from hot and cold cycles, like other plastic materials. Tearing off the plastic lath was like tearing off newspaper. More...

Flimsy EIFS garbage blows off this gable. We replaced it with REAL stucco. I guarantee it will never blow off. More...	Color finish on Gable. More...

BEFORE: Old lime plaster suffered from effloresence, due to excess humidity in this basement. Plaster was torn off and replaced with cement plaster. More...	AFTER: New cement plaster with a white portland cement and white sand finish. Cement plaster is used for resistence to humidity. More...

Decorative color plaster finish is troweled down. We really did this two years ago, and I never added it to jobs in progress. It deserves it's own page, too. More...

Rubber plaster mold
by Proteus

	Proteus came back to town and did a couple of cool little projects. This durable rubber mold can be used for pouring decorative stucco medallions, or can be poured with plaster and drilled through the center for a decorative ceiling medallion for a chandelier. How this mold was made

Patch and Match Metal lath is put over this old wood lath and filled with molding plaster and lime. This patch is in a historic house in Manassas, Virginia. More...