How to repair a stucco wall

How to repair a stucco wall by Jakob Jelling

Due to its special characteristics, a stucco wall can be very tricky to be fixed. When trying to repair a whole in such kind of wall, there are some important guidelines that might be very helpful to have in mind in order to avoid ending up with a very noticeable and unwanted patch instead of a nicely blended solution.
If you are not really sure you can repair a stucco wall appropriately and the way it looks is very important to you, you should consult an expert. But, if you still want to repair it yourself, we can provide you with some useful tips to have into account. Our tips are mainly focused on how to repair a hole in a stucco wall, so if this is your case you might find the next guidelines helpful.
Before you start repairing your stucco wall, you should start by making sure there is not any loose material in the hole. You should blow out any material or dust there might be in it and use a chisel for help if it is needed. If you find wire mesh and it is damaged, at this point you should replace it or blend it over with new one.
Once you have made sure the hole is clean and there is not damaged wire mesh, it is time to apply a coat of stucco. You should apply a first coat of it to about 1/5 inch of the surface, making sure it is firm with the help of a putty knife. Once this step is completed, you should wait approximately 48 hours before continuing.
Once it's been 48 hours after the first coat of stucco was added, you can add a second one. This second coat should be applied to within approximately 1/8 inch of the surface, and following the same procedure as with the first one. Again, you should wait 48 hours to continue. After 48 hours, you will be ready to finish the work by applying a last coat of stucco, preferably using a mason's trowel. You should smooth it and give texture to it until it blends with the rest of the surface, and then make sure of not touching that spot again for at least 90 hours.
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Home Improvement Stores

Home Improvement Stores by John Pawlett

Winter is just about over and spring is around the corner. Pretty soon it'll be summer and before you know it winter will be just around the corner again. That's when you start wondering where the year went to in such a hurry. Before you consign the year to the devil and declare it officially over before it's even started you might want to take a look into spring. What does spring usually bring to mind? To me it tells me that I'll have to get my spring cleaning done for the year before it vanishes in a poof of dust. That thought naturally gets me to thinking of the joys of going to the improvement stores to celebrate the arrival of spring.
It's really a big deal in our family and we've made almost a ritual of going to the home improvement stores with the arrival of spring. Through winter we just leave everything that doesn't need immediate work and wait for spring to show its head. When this happens, it's hello home improvement stores and goodbye savings.
Not that we regret this ritual of course. Along with spending our cash we also save by the mere fact that we don't spend all out throughout the whole year. We might go out to the home improvement stores once in a while but mostly we try and save everything up for one really big spend in the beginning of spring.
That way we have everything we need to keep us going through the long summer months and that's really when we implement all our home improvement schemes, which by the way, were hatched between us during the even longer, cold months of winter!
So we figure that it works out really well for us. In winter we hatch and we plan and save up with only an occasional visit to the enticing displays of the home improvement stores. In the spring we spend, spend, spend and go on a virtual shopping spree through all the home improvement stores in our area. During summer we put into action all our plans and restrain ourselves from visiting the home improvement stores.
Finally in fall, we just sit back, or more likely we collapse back, and survey our handy work. All thoughts of visiting the home improvement stores are completely gone from our heads. We're tired and we have no more plans left to implement, and more importantly were broke until next spring.
Just because we tell ourselves that we won't visit the home improvement stores in the months of summer when we're into renovating though, doesn't mean that we actually manage to restrain ourselves. After all who could restrain themselves with that greatest of all enticements: Sales! We know we can't which is why were broke by fall.
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