Jobs in progress
updated December 3, 2000
the coolest thing we did this month is
the dome
Cathedral Heights area
Washington, DC
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| Finished dome. | Mynor pushes rotating template around. |
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| The skylight and dome light up
the stairway |
Channel iron framing and metal lath. |
The second coolest thing was a tour
of David Hytla's
ornamental plaster shop
in Hume, VA
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| 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. Click here to see more. |
Here is a picture of one of his jobs.
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| Old stucco torn off on gables and dormer. | New lath and scratch coat. |
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| We found an area of the old house that had
never been painted to determine how they made the old pattern 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. |
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| 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. |
All for now.
There's always plenty more.
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