I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of the
house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that are now
stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth, maybe kind of a
venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R



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On Aug 22, 11:01*pm, "ROANIN" wrote:
I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of the
house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that are now
stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth, maybe kind of a
venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R

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Since you are going to have to open up parts of the wall to make
your room legal as far as electrical code dictates, you may as
well just sheetrock over the wall when you are done adding the
proper number of electrical receptacles for your new interior room...

~~ Evan

Evan wrote:
On Aug 22, 11:01 pm, "ROANIN" wrote:
I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of
the house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that
are now stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth,
maybe kind of a venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R

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Since you are going to have to open up parts of the wall to make
your room legal as far as electrical code dictates, you may as
well just sheetrock over the wall when you are done adding the
proper number of electrical receptacles for your new interior room...

~~ Evan
The whole point of my question is to NOT have to sheetrock over the stucco
walls. The walls in question already have the proper electrical outlets on
them and the new walls are going to have sheetrock over them.

R



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On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:01:17 -0400, "ROANIN"
wrote:

I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of the
house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that are now
stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth, maybe kind of a
venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R


Several skim coats of stucco mix, applied over a few days would make
the two walls smooth.

I can't speak, if the walls are painted or how the skim coats would
stick on painted stucco.

Are the exterior walls a heavy knock down texture?

Oren wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:01:17 -0400, "ROANIN"
wrote:

I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of
the house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that
are now stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth,
maybe kind of a venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R


Several skim coats of stucco mix, applied over a few days would make
the two walls smooth.

I can't speak, if the walls are painted or how the skim coats would
stick on painted stucco.

Are the exterior walls a heavy knock down texture?

It appears that they have been painted one time and the are very rough
stucco. The mechanical bond will probably be fine I would think. I did not
know if you could use the stucco mix to smooth the walls out to the height
of the bumps on it now or slightly higher so it would kind of look like
plaster once painted. I really do not want to tear them down and sheet rock
it .



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ROANIN wrote:
Oren wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:01:17 -0400, "ROANIN"
wrote:

I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of
the house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that
are now stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth,
maybe kind of a venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R

Several skim coats of stucco mix, applied over a few days would make
the two walls smooth.

I can't speak, if the walls are painted or how the skim coats would
stick on painted stucco.

Are the exterior walls a heavy knock down texture?

It appears that they have been painted one time and the are very rough
stucco. The mechanical bond will probably be fine I would think.


Plaster weld (or whatever is available in your area) wouldn't hurt.
http://www.larsenproducts.com/bonding.htm

I can't see the texture from my house, but if it isn't too heavy, you
could use Durabond (or whatever setting type joint compound is
available) to fill it out.

Oren wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:01:17 -0400, "ROANIN"
wrote:

I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of the
house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that are now
stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth, maybe kind of a
venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R


Several skim coats of stucco mix, applied over a few days would make
the two walls smooth.

I can't speak, if the walls are painted or how the skim coats would
stick on painted stucco.

Are the exterior walls a heavy knock down texture?


Oren,

Is there such a thing as a layers of stucco that are too thin? I plan
on skimming with about a quarter inch on the exterior.
--
Uno

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:04:56 -0600, Uno wrote:

Oren wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:01:17 -0400, "ROANIN"
wrote:

I am turning a porch that was originally part of the outside wall of the
house, into an interior room. I want to make the two walls that are now
stucco, look smoother. Does not have to be drywall smooth, maybe kind of a
venetian plaster look. Any ideas how I would do this?

Thanks,

R


Several skim coats of stucco mix, applied over a few days would make
the two walls smooth.

I can't speak, if the walls are painted or how the skim coats would
stick on painted stucco.

Are the exterior walls a heavy knock down texture?


Oren,

Is there such a thing as a layers of stucco that are too thin? I plan
on skimming with about a quarter inch on the exterior.

I can't answer as to what is "too thin". But I'm sure .25 inch of skim
coat is fine. Where are you?

Oren wrote:

Oren,

Is there such a thing as a layers of stucco that are too thin? I plan
on skimming with about a quarter inch on the exterior.

I can't answer as to what is "too thin". But I'm sure .25 inch of skim
coat is fine. Where are you?

Albuquerque, NM.
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Uno