West Lake Forest Animal Hospital
Location: 999 Sherwood Dr. Lake Bluff, Illinois
Architect: Linen Group
Contractor: RWE Management Company
Scope of work: New Masonry
- Furnish, set-up, maintain, dismantle and remove all equipment (tube scaffolding, ladders, hand tools, etc.) necessary for the new masonry portion of the project.
- Furnish and install thin stone veneer as per drawings (approx. 300 S.F.) (one (1) tower). Thin stone to be as per below allowance.
- Installation to consist of covering substrate with one (1) layers of felt paper, fastening metal lathe over felt paper using galvanized screws/nails (1 screw/nail/staple per square foot minimum), applying scratch coat and lastly thin stone. Mortar to be natural gray type “N” mortar.
- Once thin stone has set all stone joints to be grouted and tooled to final finish using natural gray type “N” mortar.
- Furnish and install weep screed at the base of new thin stone if necessary.
New E.I.F.S
- Furnish, set-up, maintain, dismantle and remove all equipment (lifts, tube scaffolding, ladders, hand tools, etc.) necessary for new E.I.F.S. portion of the project.
- Furnish and install approximately 500 S.F. of new E.I.F.S. at the exterior top of the building as per drawings (plus 6” return at storefronts). E.I.F.S. to be StoTherm Essence System® (or equal system).
- Furnish and apply Sto Gold coat air and water barrier over substrate as necessary.
- Furnish and apply 48” standard mesh over previously rasped insulation board (9 ½” at termination points) and fully embed mesh into wet base coat (Sto 101 PAB) by troweling from center to the edges of the mesh (double wrapping mesh at all corners).
- Furnish and apply finish to base coat using trowel to scrape material down to a uniform thickness. Finish color and texture to be selected from Sto standard chart.
- Installation of aesthetic accents, (trims, quoins, cornices, V-grooves, drip edges, etc.) per drawings.
- Furnish and install caulking in those areas where E.I.F.S. butts against dissimilar material as per drawings (metal, masonry, wood, etc.). Caulking to consist of installing 3/8” backer rod and filling with a one-part silicone sealant (Tremco® 3 or equal).