Sunday, July 19, 2015

chimney completed and the stucco is going on !

after a little more than a year the last piece of stone went on the chimney and the stove is slid into place ,  still need to add the surround on the front of the stove .  The outside of the chimney is now flashed and the remaining stone put on.  
   We have been working on the stucco on the rastra block on the outside of the house.  the stone mason set me up with a recipe for the old style stucco with mason sand, portland cement and lime plus a bit of dye to add some color.   we are going for three coats of stucco and we have been adding dye as we go to see if this color works for us.  the last coat should be a bit smoother but we will see.  i get about 8 foot of running wall done a morning then in the afternoons i am installing the track for the steel studs inside the house.  these walls are all non bearing (no load)  so all they need to do is hold the sheet rock.
      the last photo is of the radiant floor heat zones coming into the mechanical room along with the ground source heat pump tubes from outside.  lots more to install in the mech. room.