stucco & mechanical units

Well the stucco was finally started. They did the brown coat and then the scratch coat the very next day. So far it appears that they are doing a phenomenal job at keeping the lines straight and the edges crisp. I was relieved to see this as, in my opinion, the stucco is one of the most critical trades to get good craft. I'm told that the final coat will begin to go on tomorrow (10.31.07) and will take approximately 3 days to complete. The owner of the A1 Stucco tells me that the final coat is all done by hand. Once that is finished we can take down the scaffolding and get the interior courtyard slab poured once and for all. The whole house will really start to feel much more finished once the courtyard is cleaned and slabbed.

The other eventful occurance was the placement of the three mechanical units onto the roof. There are two 3 ton units and one 4 ton. The fortunate thing about the install is that once they were in place, they were not nearly as visible from the ground as I was worried about. From within the property they are almost not visible at all and even from the street they don't really stand out that much.