Addition · Brevard County, FL
Block addition wrapped in stucco
A new addition came to us as bare concrete block on three sides, roof on and openings framed. Block is thirsty and it telegraphs every joint, so it gets a proper scratch coat before anything else — then a brown coat pulled flat and a finish texture carried around all three corners in one go. Doing the whole wrap in one visit is what keeps the texture consistent; stopping and restarting is how you end up with a seam you can see from the driveway.
Service performed: New Construction & Additions
The corner is the line people actually read
Two before photos are taken at the outside corner, and it turns up again in the after shots. On bare block a corner is whatever the mason laid, course by course. Under plaster it becomes one line from footing to fascia, and somebody standing in the yard reads that line before anything else.
Getting it there means treating the corner as its own piece of work: run plumb top to bottom, with reinforcement behind the arris rather than a point troweled up by hand, and the texture carried around both faces so neither side looks like the front.
A long wall with nothing to hide behind
The second before photo is a blank elevation. Block end to end, fascia and rafter tails above, a fence and sand beyond, and not one opening in it.
A wall like that is harder than a complicated one. Every place one batch meets the next is out in the open with nothing to stop against, so the edge stays live and the work keeps moving to the far corner. In the finished shot there is still a faint band of shade across the elevation — material at different stages of drying, which levels out as the wall gives up its water. A cold join in the coat itself never does.
Turning the coat into the opening
The third before photo has the one opening on this side of the addition, framed out and open to the inside. In the matching after shot the plaster is carried into the reveal and stopped square at the frame, so the jamb reads as a cut edge and not a ramp of material shoved toward the metal.
Returns are where a wrap gets inspected. Nobody puts their face against the middle of a wall; they stand in the doorway, and the plaster wrapping into that opening is what they are looking at.
Why fresh stucco is grey before it is any color
None of the after photos show a finished color. That heavy, curling texture is the finish coat itself, still the grey-green of wet portland cement and sand, with paler patches where it dried ahead of the rest.
Bare cement is a long way from what a wall looks like coated, and across most of Florida the normal path is a painted face over the base coats rather than an unpainted mineral color. Paint follows our trade, and it wants the finish set first: fresh plaster is strongly alkaline, and a coating put on too early pays for it.
Cracked, bulging, or just looks tired?
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