Here are a couple of pictures of the "scratch coat" going up on the exterior walls. This is a coat of concrete like mix made of coarse sand (see pile of sand and mixer in one photo) which gets spread wet over the exterior mesh wire that was laid over the plywood walls. The mesh wire holds it all together. It takes about 7 days to dry and then the stucco can be applied over it for the final finish. The stucco takes about 21 days to dry before painting. It took about 4 people a day to do the entire house.
