| Historic Plaster - Conventional Plaster - EIFS - Stucco - Cultured Stone - Brick - Block - Steel indianawallsystems@yahoo.com 765-341-6020 Free Estimates,Ten year warranty, high quality work, American company Historic/decorative/conventional plaster interiors, EIFS/stone/stucco exteriors Flexible Payment Plans!!! Hotel, large scale retail/Industrial and commercial unit/Residential re-face/restoration/new construction central indiana stucco, indianapolis EIFS Contractor, Indianapolis Plaster Contractor, Indianapolis Stucco Contractor, Indianapolis EIFS repair, Indianapolis Plaster Repair     EIFS- Indiana wall Systems, is fully certified in every EIFS product we use. All products used by Indiana Wall Systems meet the EIMA standard of quality. We take all the steps to insure a quality wall that meets all manufacturer specification. EIFS REPAIR- Dont Make the Mistake of Hiring a painting contractor to patch EIFS, patching EIFS is a tedious process for a trained, certified, skilled tradesman, and certainly not the job for a painter! Before hiring a painter, take a quick trip through any local shopping center or retail center, paying close attention to the signage walls above. We Will Let You Decide Who Patched What. Indiana Wall systems always takes the least invasive, most practical, most cost effective approach to EIFS repair. We take steps to indentify any problem areas, and draft a plan that will include a no hassle, cost effective, no hidden fee, approach to your repair. We also walk our customers through the process step by step, leaving no surprises, and delivering a wall that is eye catching for years to come all encapsulated in our on of a kind 10 year warranty!    Traditional Plaster- Indiana Wall Systems can repair your Historical plaster at surprisingly affordable rates. All of our projects are executed using only the exact materials and methods used over 100 years ago. We will systematically renew your historic interior walls, while maintaining and renewing your home's historic value.    Stucco (Cementisious plaster)- Indiana Wall Systems performs a wide variety of work using stucco plasters. We go to great lengths to match existing textures where needed, and we assure a quality, properly mixed, long lasting wall that simply will NOT! crack. Plaster Molds- Indiana Wall Systems has more then most, in terms of experience, in the molding techniques of traditional plaster, as well as the ornamental accents associated therein. We have a fine attention to detail, and we can match any mold, anywhere, while insuring a quality mold that will last for years to come.    We not only offer, but we simply INCLUDE A FULL 10 YEAR WARRANTY with any work we perform. Our work is second to none, and we plan to retain that standing, and we have no problem standing behind it!!! We Treat every project as a work of art, we take great pride in EVERY project, regardless of size. Our jobsites are clean, safe, and we respect our customers, while paying close attention to the needs of EVERY customer. We have no "set in stone" policy on how we do things, We are always willing to help our customers (especially homeowners) with changes they may have mid-project. Deciding exactly what you want on your home, is never easy without first seeing it in place. All of our projects are correctly applied, in a safe, timely manner, in a quality fashion, At the least possible cost. We are more then aware that good prices, a higher standard of work, and professionally executed projects will produce satisfied customers.    New Construction Residential featuring in-house design concepts, extreme quality control, artistic based application process, and professional execution of our work. With an open minded approach, and a willingness to assist and satisfy our customers with our "not in stone" policy.    Residential Additions to existing homes High quality EIFS additions, with specific care taken on the matching up of the new, with the existing EIFS wall systems. New and existing Chimney work from plain EIFS chimney work, to radical extensive detail comprised of multi textured, multi colored, multi detail stepped concepts. Interior fireplace concepts, thin-coat, Venetian, Italian and Greek Plastered fireplace designs. Safe, beautiful, eye catching and unique designs, adding to the beauty of any home interior.    Light Commercial projects new construction and re-face/re-model. This particular project was EIFS over old damaged degraded brick work, offering up a new modern look to a century old building.     Large scale unitized commercial, Industrial projects. From sign wall repair to complete building re-face projects.      Traditional interior high quality molding plasters, and thin-coat plasters.     Churches, Historic interior restorations, decorative plaster from extensive detail and mold packages, to plain thin-coat plaster. Indiana Wal Systems uses original products, and trditional methods to recapture the look of yesteryear. You will find no flaws in our work, if there is a flaw in our work, it has not yet been invoiced, and therefore does not graduate to the level of complete until in perfect condition.     Traditional Stucco New Construction and repair/upgrade Paying close attention to the problem areas not yet known in the specifications of yesteryear. Such as wood to stucco transition issues, proper expansion placement for the climate in which the stucco is being applied, as well as the introduction of synthetic components, making the stucco of today much more durable and less prone to staining, cracks, delamination. These newly formulated upgrades to traditional stucco repairs leave home owners with a very attractive exterior that last for many years, without painting.     In-house EIFS design/artistic Detail placement/design concepts Indiana Wall Systems will assist you the customer in designing your home in the concept you choose, while offering up experienced insight into the design draft, and later placement of the concept on the home.     Cultured Stone interior/exterior designs also available. Many of the newer, more modern designs that really catch the eye, are cultured stone interior design concepts, as well as cultured stone and eifs combination designs. Some of these custom designs today, really bring forth a unique, outstanding, artistic look, while catching attention and offering real world curbside appeal, to the market, like never before. These two materials when applied correctly, really offer benefits that are easy to see a year down the road, to decades from initial construction, by offering a super strong lower wall (stone) and a beautiful, light weight, exponentially insulative upper, all while remaining tangable enough to capture any look, from old world German and English construction, to modern California style concepts. Cultured stone/Plaster interiors are also beyond reaproach in terms of design tangability, from rustic to castlistic, ancient to modern, modest to fancy. The sheer technology applied to these newer products and the generated increase in performance and workability, as well as application range, are far exceeding the materials of yesteryear, with major extentions in wall life, impact resistance, mold and stain, other contaminant repelling, increased incidental moisture resistance to name a few. Indiana Wall Systems is an Authorized Centurion Stone dealer. Centurion far exceeds any other manufacturer in terms of design and product quality, with a proven PSI Strength of 7849 psi, which is thousands of pounds stronger per square inch then any other stone! Our dealer status offers up real world significant savings to our customers through direct sales, on every cultured stone project we execute. Our warranty combined with Centurion Stone's 50 year warranty! offers real piece of mind in the decades following any work we perform.     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Central Indiana Stucco, central indiana stucco, Central Indiana Stucco, Stucco Central Indiana, Central Indiana, Indiana Central central indiana stucco, CENTRAL INDIANA STUCCO, Central Indiana, Indiana Stucco Central, Central Stucco Indiana, Stucco, central indiana stucco, central indiana stucco repair, central indiana stucco. From England To America Tim Edwards Journeyman Plasterer Wash those tools! blasted my fathers deep penetrating voice, from around the corner of the building. Thinking for just a split second to myself "What in the world is he complaining about now" as I glanced down from the third section of scaffold, looking back to the spot where our water pails and tools were arranged below, I could just make out a hint of white finish gleaming in the sun light on the very edge of my trowel, more then visible to be seen. My dad and grandfather alike were always on me in my younger days, about how " Tools make the man " and how a true plasterer needed pride to be valuable in his trade. Grandfather always went a bit further, telling stories of plasterers he seen through the years, and how it was common knowledge among builders, that a man who keeps his tools dirty, or just throws them upon the ground, once complete, is the very man you don't want plastering your home. As if this one behavior defined a man's abilities. I remember my first few experiences in the plastering trade, some of which were the many pictures and souvenirs that filled our home, and our grandparents home, throughout my childhood. Boxes and wooden crates full of worn out trowels, previously being 4 to 6 inches wide at new condition, barely 2 inches wide when placed away in storage. Dad never threw away a trowel, and grandfather was always trying to make some new kind of tool, specialty plaster,or ornamental tooling tools. He always had bench after bench stacked with his new troweling inventions, some of which mirror those used to the this very day. Working from the age of nine years, having to carry one quarter of what most plasterers carried, not due to strength, rather I was simply to short to lift any real weight, high enough to clear the ground, and could often times be seen making what dad called " Tim Trails " around a job site, the worst of which I unintentionally installed upon a late 1600's wooden floor, for which my father nearly buried me for. In the English west Midlands, there was not a house, not a building, that was not plaster on the interior, and a great many were in-fact plaster outside as well. Plaster and its methods of use, seemed to have traveled through time, having been handed to the Romans during the building of Londinium, most likely making its way through the early and middle ages by word of mouth and by first hand sight of just how people built shelters through the ages. Coming to America in Nineteen hundred and eighty, I guess I was at first taken back by the way buildings were constructed here, seemingly as fast as possible, everyone had their own way to do things. Going to work for my first plastering contractor, I struggled to fit in, the way I had been taught, the very methods handed me by my grandfather, and his grandfather alike, were no longer worthy of use in this strange place. While my hawk and trowel were present, and seemingly the same, they shared this position with only may hands, because all else had changed. Somberly adapting to the new methods, I made sure to talk to myself before performing every action I did not agree with, as if trying to hang on to my heritage, while being forced down a road built and based on production and quantity. I just could not believe union tradesman were trying to cover fresh brown coat with a single coat of lime finish, and the trowel it out to a " Passable state " move to the next wall, and repeat the process. Over the course of three decades I eventually adapted and fit myself into a production based trade here in the states, eventually working for most large plastering contractors in Michigan, and Later Indiana. One spring, a very cold spring, mind you, I had spent the better part of the winter without work, helping my wife to sustain her online business, and aid in her record sales across the Untied States. I had made so many calls, to so many companies, sent letters, walk through many doors, filling out applications for work to no avail, and finally, for the first time in what had became several months, the Lord hath shined his light upon me, blessed me, and delivered work, and some much needed time away from my lovely wife and her repetitive data entry. I remember the call as if it were yesterday, " 7 am Mr Edwards " - " Greenwood Indiana " for which my reply " Yes Sir, I will be there early Sir, ready to go " with all intended purposes of arriving around 630 am and getting a good look at the task at hand. However, I found myself there at 5am, bright eyed and bushy tailed, hopping around the jobsite inspecting everything, eagerly waiting on my supervisor to show up. 7 am came and went, and about 745 a really round man pulled up and introduced himself. I had never seen such a big plasterer, and in the back of my mind, was wondering just how this guy climbs the scaffold. Later finding out, he does not climb scaffold, rather spending his days pointing and screaming, which had to contribute to his enormous size and presence. A few more minutes passed and plasterers for all practical definitions, started arriving a few here, a few there. The elephant in the room had directed myself and a few others to begin straightening out the handrails and scraping the walls down, readying the surface for a synthetic finish coat. Having worked my way nearly to the top of four sections of scaffold and back down to the bottom row again, in a nervous, spastic frenzy of work, primarily culminated from not having worked in months. Standing at the ground level i began to hear a "Ting!" and "Ting" "Ting Ting Ting bam!! " a few small rocks jumped around and scattered around my head. Looking down I seen a margin trowel had fell from the very top of the scaffold and I heard a loud curse, and could hear someone climbing down at a high rate of speed. Picking up the margin as the plasterer made it to the bottom, I ask, " Is this your one, or My one" in what must have been a rather quirky accent to him. The plasterer simply looked up and stated " Its my one " "now get your dick beaters off of it" Stunned at the rude, strange response, I handed him the trowel and went on working my way down the wall. The laborers had readied the finish material and had placed throughout the scaffold runs, to make for quick and easy access. The elephant man screamed and started pointing, "you and you" and "you and you" "floater and spreader" and "floater and spreader" pointing at me and someone above me and stating "Floater" great! was my thought, if anyone could float, and I mean, really float, it was me, I had always prided myself in being exceptional when it comes to laying down finish. A thump beside me and there was the same plasterer who had made the rude remark, how lucky I was, he was to be my partner for the entire day, and knowing my luck, well beyond. With a snap, crack and a pop, he had the pail open, hawk loaded and started laying on finish like no one I had every seen. Starting his trowel at the very bottom and reaching well above the scaffold board above, in highly efficient, extremely fast trowel swipes, with a quick ratchet action at the top and bottom of each stroke, resetting his wall mud for each impending stroke. Within less then one minute, he had laid on over 100 square feet of finish and was halfway through the next section of scaffold. Without further delay, but shrouded in fear of keeping up, I jumped in and gave it my all, violently floating in a fit of rage, without care for where my excess finish went and what it landed on. Sweat poured off my forehead, blinding much of my visibility, looking up periodically I could see, and started to realize, there was simply no chance at me keeping up. This guy was going to get me fired on the very first day, and I had nearly 30 years of floating experience? As we wrapped up what was nearly an hour of finishing, other floaters started jumping down and helping me. Before long there were six ,men floating the wall this guy had laid on. Once complete, I was in disbelief a single plasterer could lay on so much, so fast. Listening to the other plasterers afterward, it was common knowledge this guy could really move on the wall. I remember glancing over at his tools during lunch. They were shinning in the daylight, very clean indeed. This was the first experience in meeting Jeff Johnson. As the months and eventually years went by, Jeff and I, along with an Irishman by the name of Jude, worked together on various projects for various contractors, all over the region. Setting here today, 40 plus years after the start of my plastering career, and 20 plus years after having met Jeff and Jude. I am still plastering nearly every day. A tad bit slower then I used to be, but very aware of my trade and its secrets, both English and American. Jude was diagnosed with MS in 2001 and went back home to Ireland. He is confined to a wheelchair these days and spends his days in his homeland. Jeff and I work together everyday. I spend many days out estimating and inspecting Plaster, Stucco and EIFS projects, both projects we have completed, and projects we are looking to price out. I think most of our work these days is primarily viewed as art work. One gets to a point in their age, whereby its no longer how much you can do, but how well you can do it. The combination of my English Plastering heritage and Jeff's American Plastering Heritage, really created a solid experience base in which to draw upon in any given situation. Operating a company more along the lines of a government, with daily situation meetings, sharing of information, solid documentation and expert quality control, really means the difference in making it in the market these days. While we have seen our share of flybynight contractors sweep through the area, their course of contracts is short lived in the conservative Indiana Atmosphere. We both agree that taking photos and exposing our work first hand, both on the web as well as in a database for future reference, is the most important part of just how clients view and decide upon prospective contractors. We have spent countless hours developing our quality control program, especially in dealing with EIFS and exterior Synthetics. These products are much more technical in terms of application, and each small part of the specification details, are extremely important in order to obtain a lasting wall system. Continuing to stay on top of new application details and industry training is our top priority. A teacher cannot teach, what a teacher has not learned, never have I found a more suitable fit, for those old English words. I hope to work another decade before retiring, and although my work history with Jeff and Indiana Wall Systems has been rich, I think I may just return home and spend my days exploring my childhood stomping grounds, maybe enlisting an apprentice and doing a few side jobs, to maybe pass on a small piece of who I am as a person, back in my homeland. You only live once, and nothing should be taken lightly in life, what seems like an eternity on the front side, seems like a moment from behind. Tim Edwards Journeyman Plaster Skilled Tradesman Indianapolis Indiana For the Birds!!
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
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