March 25th: Stucco
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Today our stucco guys will come. Let's see if they are as good/bad in keeping a "clean work space" as rumour claims. |
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John, our stucco guy from Island Coast Plastering
Island Coast Plastering Inc.
Mark Heidig
17 NW 32nd Pl
Cape Coral, FL 33993
Cell: (239) 770-4257
Fax: (484) 905-0888
Qualitystucco@embarqmail.com
www.IslandCoastPlastering.com
, is melting under the Florida sun today while he is nailing the mesh and the corner beads to the wall. Fortunately our fridge has a neverending supply of cool water!
We learn from Mark, John's boss, that they have to nails the corner beads manually as the nail gun are either too weak to pierce the concrete or too powerful to keep the plastic corner bead undamaged.
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Mesh to keep the stucco on top of the window flashing |
John, cutting the |
Corner beads around |
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The archtop windows are a bit more difficult. |
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March 25th: Wall insulation (... continued)
While John is in the middle of the fight with the corner beads on the outside Juergen continues his work putting up the wall insulation boards.
We are not sure which side John will start with tomorrow. The door/window panes of that side will be covered completely with a protective foil against the stucco.
We will see if we will be able to get into Maria's Art Studio tomorrow!
