Oscar enjarrando mi casa - video

Oscar is my maestro and here is finishing up the last part of the rough stucco (enjarrar). The music in the background is what we listen to all day ... and the other noise is Hugo mixing more mortar.

Viga falsa

We are now enjarrando (stuccoing - verb is enjarrar) the kitchen/dining room and that room has a viga (support beam) across the middle of it. The problem is the roof was originally designed with a slope and now it's flat. The solution is to extend the high side of the viga down to the level of the lower end. To do this they use a wire mesh nailed to the viga and just trowel on the mortar mix.

So Oscar says we need 4 meters of this wire mesh (maya falso or maya plafon) and off to the ferreteria I go not knowing what I was really looking for. The first ferreteria sent me back with 4 meters of chicken wire. Nope, that's not it. The second ferreteria had the wire mesh but only in 20 meter rolls. No other options so I now have 16 meters of this maya to use on something else.

Below is the roll, the bending process, the installation and the stuccoing. These false vigas or beams are sometimes used to cover plumbing pipes or electrical wiring.

The viga pretty well covered