Install lath before stucco applications

Install lath before stucco applications.
Friends, we are located in Oakland, CA.

Here are all the basic tools we use and recommend on Amazon's website.
https://www.stuccoplastering.com/tools/
Live long and plaster hats, shirts, and other cool stuff. https://www.livelongandplaster.com/
Kirk Giordano Plastering Inc.

Send pictures to Jay or myself at our sites below for immediate bids.
https://www.StuccoPlastering.com/ Kirk’s website.
https://www.GiordanoPlastering.com/ Jason’s Website.

As inquiring minds want to know, Learn how to install stucco nettings and which one to use?
Galvanized stucco nettings, which one to buy?

Note: If you can’t find this two-ply at Home Depots or lowes, “Google plastering yards near me,” As all the professional plastering yards sell this stucco membrane with both papers on a roll, unlike the big chain stores that only sell one layer, which means you have to go over the walls twice, This is much too time-consuming, amateurish and a serious waste of time.

The 18 gauge stucco netting is thicker with smaller holes.
The 17 gauge stucco netting is what we prefer, as a rule. However, if I can’t find 17, I’ll use 18 gauge. It’s just a matter of perseverance for us.

 Now, let’s look at 20 gauge chicken wire. For example, 20 gauge wire or stucco netting is much thinner. It’s used for countertops and shower floors to reinforce the grout or chicken coops.
Yes, I used to have a chicken coop with about 10 chickens.
Once more, the 20 gauge chicken wire netting can be used for setting tile grout for countertops.

More lathing tips,
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   • Stucco lathing instructions   lathing tutorials.
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Here’s a silly question, can you stucco without wire mesh? No, of course not, as stucco needs to cling to something; the paper won’t hold it as there is nothing to hold it.