Materials remaining for porch. Tuesday next work day!

This is a look at the materials left for the porch stucco and stone.
A bag of play sand, some lime and some white cement.

We are due to finish it off on Tuesday!
The stone is ordered and Craig has picked it up or will. 4 boxes of selected stone for the sills.

Porch Scratch 2 & Chimney cleanup and pointing

Next... Stone and stucco on porch.
The roof still has some cleanup to go. I'll post some pics once it is all dressed up post cleanup.
I'll also need to decide if I want to seal the flagstone floor of the porch.

Second scratch coat. Looks a lot like the first but the mesh pattern is now completely covered.
It is sponged and lightly raked where the stone sill will go - once I have the stone.


This is the first scratch coat this morning. no cracks.
Here's the chimney with the stone pointed nicely.

Today - The second scratch coat while I am hunting down some stone.
Looking good.

Today - Porch Scratch - A new project.

Next -
Decide on stone for sills. and go get it.
Second scratch either way.

I think the weather should be good tomorrow but looks iffy for Friday.

I also remounted the disconnect box for the compressor on the chimney and cleaned the gutters and helped Craig and Kevin.

Here's the porch project:
This is type S mortar mix with some white cement added.

I nailed the mesh in more along the base to make it more solid. I hope it doesn't introduce leaks from behind the nail holes. I'll need to caulk between the windows and the Azek sills.
I put up some tyvek to keep drips off the side near the bushes.
Scratch coat 1 going on.




Well, I need to decide how I want to proceed on this project as they are going to be taking stuff away. It was a rainy day for most of the day but Craig put a scratch coat on the porch. No clean up as it was hard to tell where cement film is on the roof and I'm not crazy about guys being on wet roofs anyway.
Here's today's progress.

I need to decide on stone sills.

MONDAY: SW Chiimney Done! Cleanup begins.

Monday, May 2, 2011
The scaffolding is packed up.
The chimneys are done.
There is a bit of roof cleaning and equipment to clean up.

Here's a look in the sunshine!




Cleanup Phase One.
Scaffolding down and most of the roof cleaned off.
There is some remaining cleanup to do.

Catchup Updates...

Friday, April 29, 2011
I was on the road but Craig and Ed were finishing off the chimney.
Here are the results.




So this is what it looked like Monday morning.