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Throughout much of Montana I see a heavy textrured cement based stucco; it almost looks like popcorn that’s been painted to the building. I assume that it was a sprayed application. Does anyone know how to replicate it? Anyone with experience putting it on (you would have to be about 70 years old from the date of the houses!)? Anyway, it has a real cool texture and contrasts very nicely with smoother materials & I’d like to try it on a project. Any positive feedback or advise is greatly appreciated.
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Good Evening Chad,
Your not talking about stucco that has had white quartz cast on, are you? They would be the size of pea stone.
*The "real," old-fashioned stucco with which I'm familiar was made of sea shells, lime, and probably some other stuff, put on in layers, not unlike the old plaster walls. Does anyone eveni dothis any more?
*Chad,never been to Montana, but here down under they used to do it like that ( and still do at times ).It's a render of high lime cement applied with a tool we call a tyrolene box.( not sure on the spelling ). Have one under the house actually. It's a metal box about 1 foot x 6 inches wide with a handle to hold by at the back and an opening in the top to fill it through.On the side it has a handle you can wind, this turns an axle inside the box on which are attached metal fingers. These grab the mix and flick it out onto the surface.Regardsmark
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Gabe-no. Fiyo-no. Mark-YES! It looks like it's cast/thrown on some how & I doubt that the contractors had compressors to do it back then. Any chance I could get a few digital images of your mud slinging contraption? Perhaps a detailed description of the construction and materails and how it works. Do you want to sell it? Let me know.
Chad.
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Throughout much of Montana I see a heavy textrured cement based stucco; it almost looks like popcorn that's been painted to the building. I assume that it was a sprayed application. Does anyone know how to replicate it? Anyone with experience putting it on (you would have to be about 70 years old from the date of the houses!)? Anyway, it has a real cool texture and contrasts very nicely with smoother materials & I'd like to try it on a project. Any positive feedback or advise is greatly appreciated.
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Damn, and I sorely wanted that stucco knowledge prize... ; )
Chad, any possibility that stucco application could be different in different parts of the country/world/universe?
Patty, still yearning for the stucco prize : )