Originally Posted by
Matt Fellman
Wow, everyone must be taking the evening off....
The photo resolution/size was so small I could not tell what it was (except for the trim pieces).
It's put on over plywood or similar, likely applied like stucco only with pebbles instead of fines.
What you describe ("with pebbles") is like I've seen on commercial jobs where the pebbles are embedded into concrete shortly after the concrete had been placed into a form and screeded off, once cured, the panel sections were erected (like tilt-up construction does today). Sometimes the panels were made on site, other times the panels were made at a precast plant.
There is another, less expensive, variation I've seen a few times on residences which were frame or masonry. The process was that a scratch coat of stucco would be applied, then a base coat of stucco and the pebbles 'blown' or 'shot' into the uncured stucco, the stones would then be troweled in to make a smooth (flat in plane may be a better description) pebbled surface.
The wide spacing of the vertical trim indicates to me that it might be tilt-up or precast panels.
What type of construction was it? Frame? Masonry/concrete?