Bag
finish
love your site! And agree with you on the EIFS
garbage
wholeheartedly. Found you when an employee asked what I meant by "bag
finish".
I explained andthen wanted a more technical answer for our
specifications.
A google search
uncovered you. As we are practically neighbors
(we're
in Clarendon) I hope our paths will cross in the field.
There are lots of varieties of bag finishes on old houses in
the Washington
area.
The old plasterers I used to work with used to carry burlap
bags to
the job years ago to make floats. They didn't have rubber floats back
then,
so they
tied burlap to an old trowel or wood float for a float finish or
to
float their basecoat.
These were called croaker sacks in Richmond because they
brought fish
to the market in burlap bags, so the empty bags were free.
Patterns were made by putting mortar in the bags and smacking
the wall,
dipping the bag in water, dipping the bag in mortar, or a variety of
ways
depending on the imagination. I still do this stuff the way it was
described
to
me by old plasterers to match existing patterns.
See this month's
column for
more on bag finishes
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