2nd inspection passed

Monday, July 18:

I just passed my second building inspection:   rough framing, electrical, mechanical, and stucco lath.

It's off to the races now to finish up this project.  The next two steps will be drywall and stucco.  The inspector wants to view all of the drywall attached to the interior walls before I tape/float/finish it.  He wants to make sure that I have used enough screws.

I finished installing the stucco lath yesterday (Sunday). 

I will start on the stucco later this week.  First, I need to devise some sort of pulley/rope system so that I can mix the stucco on the ground then hoist it up onto this scaffold for troweling into the wall. 

The stucco will consists of three coats:  scratch / fill / finish.

Once the stucco is done, I will tear down this scaffold and paint the wall.  Then the homeowners association will sign off on my project as finished (they only care about the exterior.)

BELOW:  It was painstaking work to tie the wire into the existing wire behind the finished walls.  Kind of like sewing, but with needle-nose pliers.