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Plaster domes

Finished plaster dome rotating template
Finished dome.  Mynor pushes rotating template around.
skylight and plaster dome Channel iron framing and metal lath
The skylight and dome light up
the stairway		 Channel iron framing and metal lath.

Ornamental Plasterer David Hytla

David Hytla Here is a picture
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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Stucco addition
Washington, DC

Old stucco torn off on gables and dormer New lath and scratch coat.
Old stucco torn off on gables and dormer. New lath and scratch coat.
old texture The brown coat is rubbed with a rubber float
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.
This washes off the cement and exposes the aggregate Finished stucco dormer
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.