| STUCCO! And with this step, the exterior of the house is all but complete! |
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| This was a great couple of weeks. We could really see progress towards completion as the stucco went on. We hired a stucco contractor to apply the stucco and they did a great job. The first step was to put a bonding adhesive on the block wall because the blocks were painted. Next, heavy guage chicken wire and a base coat all the way around the building...that's what the gray is. They let the base coat cure for about a week so that hopefully most of the cracks would be in the base coat, and then put the final color coat on. In our opinion it looks great! A couple of key steps are missing from these pictures. Before the base coat, we added a layer of rigid insulation to the exterior non-tire walls, just to bump the R factor up a little bit more. Once the |
| insulation was on, we put a double layer of 6 mil plastic from the roof, over the insulation and down the berm about 25 feet. This will help keep water from seeping into our tire walls. We will put another layer of insulation actually on top of and in the berm, roll the plastic out and bury the whole thing. So, right now the exterior is practically finished. We have to fill the exterior planters and backfill the berm and that's it. |
| The white pipe sticking out of the planters is our sewage pipe. It will be buried after the wetlands septic system is installed. |
| The color washed out of this picture some, but the stucco is the same color...really! The small planter on the right of this picture is an overflow for the interior gray water planters. |
| Now to finish the interior! |
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