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Bob meets with John Clancy who is applying "California" stucco inside the greenhouse. A tint is applied to the mix to match the interior and a latex bonding material helps keep the stucco adhear to the walls.

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" So you are just finishing up with via the skim coat. -- not on the wall right right this is the the second coat and -- put on the final coat OK and -- Stucco. So that's called. And you put some sort of -- into the material thing blinds. That our line without limestone right we've done it so that -- when it dries that'll be the same color as the call what's the make up of this material is it a Portland cement base. Yes you know with the cement based product and it has washed sand and it's real light so that it's it's you know dried and -- column shorten in the -- makes it. The doctor a couple of its -- matches the Indiana limestone of homes analyses threaded up. Is there any type of adhesive that has to be put in with it so that it probably to describe what we have a latex -- It put that in just helps us you don't have to but we do it. This goes -- in the Lincoln almost again. This looks like it's difficult to get this stuff that really not supposed. Yes it is and it and you. You have these metal beads that I seat right here for example. They go throughout the entire installation what do they pour those expansion joints. And now we're trying to make it so it forces it to crack on those lines right and and that way you can avoid having any other cracks in the Stucco in the main field of it up -- right but stuff with Stucco it's always a little bit of a gamble. I think what's nice is that they they this fashioned beat the metal -- this laid out throughout this back wall so that at noon time. When the sun cast a shadow on the rafters of the greenhouse through. They correspond. With the expansion joints would be in the lines that are already in the Spanish."

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