Home repair if you're George Washington:
Esp. those of you who don't live close enough to the east coast to visit Mt. Vernon, you may not know this.
You know the beautiful stone building that is the center of Mt. Vernon, the home itself.
It's not made of stone, but wood. Then it was painted with a sand and paint mixture so that it will look like stone.
You can do this yourselves for your house and if anyone gives you a hard time, just cite Washington.
That is probably not unlike the stucco they put over wooden houses in a lot of places. I did see one of my neighbors do an interesting trick. They bought an older, poorly insulated stick built piling house (T-111 siding). He put 2" of styrofoam securely nailed and glued to the old T-111, lath and stuccoed that. I questioned the sealing around the windows, where stucco over wood usually fails and he assured me it came with a good guarantee.
Guy told me a few years ago that he had stucco/window problems and it was going to cost him $40,000 in repairs.
Years ago we used to supply the foam to both Dryvit and Sto who sold such systems. The stucco was a synthetic material of some work.
There was a glut of law suits about this in Atlanta in the 90s when I was there. It was all over the news. That stucco over wood was real popular there. We have stucco over block here and that is very trouble free. When they built this house in 63 they put some kind of diamond bright on it, similar to pool plaster, that still looked good 30 years later. My wife decided she wanted a different color and painted it. (against my better judgement).
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