Design 1

"2003 Regional Contractor of the Year"  (CoTy) Award Winner

presented by NARI - (National Association of Remodeling Industry)

The sixty-year-old house of 5,000 square feet was to be transformed to be the “Last Word in Design”; high tech, heating and air conditioning, electronic alarms, visual and sound entertainment equipment – all state-of-the-art. 

The problem was the owner, architect and general contractor all had different ideas on how to achieve that.

The first job was the exterior. After two false starts, two years and large sums of money wasted we were called in and given the task to design a concept which included molded carvings and a 19th century colored, textured stucco finish to satisfy the owner.

Sample after sample was made and rejected until we showed the owner a 200-year-old villa in Spain. We made a sample to simulate the texture and color of the villa and approval was immediate.

In order to duplicate the double relief molding our manufacturer and designer had to retool to come up with the exotic casings and keystones. Raised window surrounds and door treatments, as well as, quoines in extruded polystyrene were designed. Applying them over cement next to five coats of hand rubbed mahogany windows with a fast drying bonding agent was time consuming and nerve racking.

The original house was filled with voids and spacing and had to be chipped and flash patched prior to starting the job. After the addition was complete, special galvanized spacers and trim were installed before lathing with 3.4” galvanized steel lath. The iron oxides had to be carefully measured before folding them into a cyclo-blending hopper for consistency of color. The “Instant-Crete” textured finish coat was carefully hand troweled, as the frame and windows could not be masked.

We achieved the “Last Word in Design” that the owner was looking for. The result was that we created a rich looking, maintenance free exterior facade that fit the architectural integrity of the home.

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