Good Weather! Time to Parge

What is Parge?

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"Parge coat (concrete): A thin coat of a cementitious or polymeric mortar applied to concrete or masonry for refinement of the surface. The typical parge coat is 1/4"-1/2" in thickness; this may be less than the minimum thickness allowed by many mortar types.
Parging is usually applied with a trowel and pressed into the existing surface. The intent is to create a contiguous surface by filling surface air voids and bugholes (eliminating bughole-induced outgassing), to level a surface with extreme rugosity, or to prep a surface for topcoating with a high-performance protective coating.
Parging is a low-cost alternative to repointing, providing structural cohesiveness to masonry walls whose mortar has begun to fail. Parge coating can also be used to create air tightness for apartments."
So it is time to put some cement on the roof of the house - to see if we can make it water-tight.  Hopefully we will be able to have it finished and be able to rain-test next week.  Here are a few pictures of work-in-progress.