Showing posts with label stucco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stucco. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Up On The Roof

  Spent the last three days up on a windy rooftop stuccoing a chimney with Joel Oyer. The stuccoing itself is not so bad, but climbing in and out of the tent and up and down the ladders is a pain. The cold ocean winds beat the crap out of us and even managed to tear a portion of the tent roof off at one point. We were having a difficult time, as it was, just trying to keep the inside temperature above fifty; with a kerosene heater blowing into the fireplace below and a propane blower up on the roof. Temperatures outside on a few of those mornings were in the single digits and we often could not start applying stucco till the sun came over the trees and provided us with a little greenhouse effect through the plastic. One coat a day.
  Did I mention how much I dislike heights?