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Weathered wall above a stone veneer, re-finished
The stone veneer along the bottom of this entry was in good shape; the stucco above it had gone blotchy and grey with years of weather. Replacing the stone was never the job. We worked the wall above it back to an even finish and cut in cleanly along the top of the stone, so the two materials meet at a straight line instead of a smudge. Same house, same stone, and the front of it reads new again.
Service performed: Remodels & Re-Stucco
A wall in permanent shade shows everything
The before photograph is an entry alcove — boarded ceiling overhead, the door to one side, a shutter and a window to the other, and between them a panel of stucco gone grey and green in blotches, with a paler smear low down where something was worked over at some point.
A face tucked under a roof like that never gets an hour of direct sun to dry it out after rain, and mottling of that kind does not wash back to one even tone. It is not dirt sitting on the surface by then. It is the surface.
Nobody was taking the stone off
The ledge stone along the bottom — cream and tan with a few red and brown pieces set through it — was in good order. Pulling sound stone off a wall to make a plasterer's morning easier is not a service, so it stayed, it got covered before anything started, and it set the rules for everything above it.
Working over a material you are not replacing means the new finish has to arrive at it rather than run past it. Splatter on a rough stone face is far harder to take off than it is to keep off.
The line along the top course
Compare the two photographs at the one spot where stucco meets stone. Before, that meeting is a smudge — old material wandering down over the top course, thin and ragged in places. After, it is a single straight line running the full width of the alcove.
A line like that is cut, not wiped. It gets ruled off, the finish is worked up to it, and anything that gets past is taken off the stone while it is still soft. Once it has gone off, it is a chisel and a bad afternoon.
An entry gets looked at from three feet
A wall out on the street gets judged through a car window. A front entry does not. People stand in this spot waiting for a door to open, so the work has to hold up at arm's length — even grain right across the panel, no trowel shine in the middle of it, no sanded halo where somebody blended out and hoped.
It is a small area and it takes a disproportionate share of the day, which is worth knowing before you compare quotes on square footage alone.
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