What is Stucco?
Stucco is typically a cement, sand and lime mix with water. This would also be referred to as traditional stucco,1 or 3 coat stucco, or straight cement plaster . Normally, we consider stucco as referring to a durable exterior coating.
Plaster is a more generic term for a plastic (wet) material that is used for coating and finishing a wall that will harden over time. This can be with a base of cement but might also include clay earth, Gypsum papercrete or many other things.
There are two ways to apply stucco. Either by hand with a hawk and trowel, or by a tool like our stucco sprayer. When troweling by hand, the learning curve can slow things down and the labor involved is greater. Hand troweling also takes more time. The beauty of our tool is the ease of use while saving time and labor. There is virtually no learning curve! You scoop and spray. The the amount of square feet covered can be comparable to 6 experienced plasterers with a hawk and trowel. This feature is really great for larger projects like a strawbale house or a stucco fence.
“I had two guys mixing my mortar, and they still couldn’t keep up with me using the bigger jets on the Tirolessa USA Stucco Sprayer. A four day job took me one day to complete. I’m really excited about using this tool on my next job.” -Joseph Armeni of Conneaut, OH
