Fake Lava Rock....Advice Please! - Tiki Carving

T tikiboy Member Brentwood CA Joined: May 11, 2002 Posts: 77	T tikiboy Posted posted on Fri, Apr 2, 2004 1:29 AM Aloha Pariartspaul, When you work with stucco, its best to do it in two stages. The first stage called the brown coat fills in the stucco mesh. Before this coat sets up comb it or scratch the surface all over to create a bonding surface. After this coat has cured go to the color stage. The second coat is called the color coat and this batch of stucco is usually colored with a powdered color product. Lightly wet the brown coat surface. When that surface is no longer wet but just moist spread or trowel on the color coat. When this begins to set up texture your surface with combs, tools etc. The best salt to use is the kind they use for water softening. It resists melting. Tikiboy

Aloha Pariartspaul,
When you work with stucco, its best to do it in two stages. The first stage called the brown coat fills in the stucco mesh. Before this coat sets up comb it or scratch the surface all over to create a bonding surface. After this coat has cured go to the color stage. The second coat is called the color coat and this batch of stucco is usually colored with a powdered color product. Lightly wet the brown coat surface. When that surface is no longer wet but just moist spread or trowel on the color coat. When this begins to set up texture your surface with combs, tools etc. The best salt to use is the kind they use for water softening. It resists melting.
Tikiboy

Post #84165 by tikiboy on Fri, Apr 2, 2004 1:29 AM