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Stucco — Exterior and Interior

by Alison Moore Smith on June 29, 2010

We’ve got stucco going up on the exterior of our home and the interior as well. While exterior stucco is pretty common around here, we’re also having stucco applied to the interior side of the exterior walls. This is actually less expensive than sheetrock, because the stucco adhere directly to the blocks, without all the [...]

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Stucco Slapped on Basement Walls

by Alison Moore Smith on April 7, 2010

Before moving the enormous dirt pile from the back of the house to the front — and filling in the mote around the front porch — the basement concrete panels were covered with stucco.
Unlike typical building materials, stucco can be applied directly to the aerated concrete panels. No need for the multi-step process of covering [...]

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Rasping Will Smooth Concrete Wall Panels

by Alison Moore Smith on March 10, 2010

The fibrous concrete panels we are using to build the house — stacked up and secured with polyurethane before being filled with concrete — were something of an aesthetic mess. Bumpy, lumpy, and uneven, the walls didn’t much lend themselves to being easily stuccoed.
Eames and a helper spent three long days this week rasping the [...]

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Utah County Construction Subcontractors & Suppliers

by Alison Moore Smith on January 6, 2010

With the basement poured we’re waiting on the concrete panels. They should arrive next Wednesday.
In the meantime, we’re on the lookout for honest, quality subcontractors and suppliers in the Utah County area, who would like to bid for remaining work on the house. We’ll be making a short list of a few we’d like to interview. [...]

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