Back in the mid 80's my Dads company took on the largest stucco job ever done in Alaska, eight month long project. It was a large middle school in Anchorage, we had to lath over heavy gauge metal studs and stucco all the outside walls, inside hallway walls & ceilings, and gymnasium walls, and they also had an inside rifle range & we did all those walls and ceilings. We got started over two months late, the job was behind because everything was getting built on 'tundra' permanently frozen ground and the company that did the dirt work went bankrupt on the job. We started in August which was still good weather. We couldn't bring most of the crew up there because of Union interference we had to hire most labor out of their jurisdiction. They would send us concrete finishers to do plaster's work, we had to train them to get the job done, same with most of the lathers. We probably had around 16 people working on the job. Materials had to be ordered up to 6 weeks ahead of time because they came up from Seattle on barges. Our estimator had figured all those outside and inside walls but the lazy ass missed the interior suspended stucco ceilings. I was running the plaster crew and there was another guy running the lathing crew and my Dad was only up there for two months to get it all going. We should have been done on the outside before the cold winter hit but everybody started two months late. That meant that we had to cover and heat EVERYTHING even the loads of plaster sand. The lather foreman quit as soon as the winter hit and headed back to Seattle and my Dad had to go back down so I ended up the Superintendent of both crews and was left in charge of the worst of the job. I was under so much stress that my hair started to actually turn white and I was still in my 20's. I really learned a lot going through all that.
haven't been the same since 
