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Originally Posted by Amethyst
Does anyone have a recommendation for someone who can do a bit of parging on a house? It's a small section along one side of the house. The stone work wasn't installed properly and eventually fell off. Rather than putting stones back on (matching the rest of the house would be too costly I think), I just want to put parge on that section.
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I assume that the stone is a mortar placed manufactured stone (Installed on a base coat of cement plaster). If this is the case, then it isn't that hard to put the stone back. Make sure you attach some metal lath to the substrate first, using drilled screw fasteners at maximum 12" o/c or less, each way. Then mix up a cement plaster (stucco - I'm sure you can get some premixed stuff that you just add water to) and apply it to the metal lath (about 1/2" thick). Then back butter the stone pieces and stick them into the wet plaster. It isn't that difficult. I'm assuming that the original installation didn't use a metal lath (the cement plaster was installed directly on the concrete). This is probably why the stone fell off in the first place.