Stucco First Layer

This is what it looked like after I cut the hole in the wall and got the door up. The exposed wood needs to be refinished with stucco. 


















Before the stucco can be applied, the surfaces have to be covered in black construction paper, then covered with styrofoam, then covered with chicken wire. This was very tedious work. The stucco, which is basically just concrete, is applied onto the styrofoam and chicken wire.
















Hillary was a huge help putting up the first layer of stucco. She figured out that it worked best to just pack it in place by hand. I had to run into town to get more stucco mix, so she ended up doing almost all of it while Haddie napped.

Now we need to apply a second layer to make it look nice and try to match the texture on the rest of the house.