Last week, we stucco’d the battery house (the first coat that is; there will be one more finish coat done in a month or so). The whole thing only took two days.
Here’s the formula:
1 part STUCCO MIX (We have a pallet full of bags of this. It’s astonishing to think how much stucco’ing we’ll be doing.)
PLUS
3 parts SAND (We just got a delivery of 13 tons. Eek.)
PLUS
WATER (We have lots of this.)
AND STIR COPIOUSLY…
(This is our new cement mixer. It is so awesome! I highly recommend one of these. The small ones are quite cheap.)
This kind of stucco seemed to go on quite easy. One thing we learned was that you really want the chicken wire stapled down super-tight before you stucco.
Corners are my speciality.
The final step is troweling in a mesh fabric. It is supposed to prevent cracking. We found it super easy to work with.
Here are the final results.
I an building my house and have never stuccoed before. I have plywood board what do I need to cover with before I stucco or before I put the wire on and what kind of mesh fabric did you use under the final coat. Also I can’t read the stucco sack label. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
We stucco’d over OSB which is like plywood. We covered the OSB with a paper called JumboTex; put it on from bottom to top so water will stay outside. The stucco mesh (chicken wire) goes over the JumboTex. We used El Rey Fastwall stucco, but any one-coat stucco should be fine. I don’t remember the brand of the mesh, but any stucco supply place should be able to answer that question. Note that the mesh is trowelled on to the first coat after the wall is looking flat.