Residential Envelope complete — fit-out continuing 2025–26

Steel Mountain Villa — new-build EIFS envelope with 8-inch continuous insulation

Private homeowner · Catskills, NY

Builder — steel-framed new construction

After: the finished two-tone EIFS envelope, November 2025

Scope

A new steel-framed hillside residence with a Sto warranted EIFS envelope over 8 inches of continuous insulation, finished in two decorative coats — a granite-effect finish on the cantilevered volumes and a limestone-effect finish on the lower walls — with thermally broken aluminum windows and radiant floor heating.

Challenge: Deep continuous insulation on a steel frame, long cantilevers where the two finishes meet, and mountain weather that limits basecoat and finish-coat days.
Solution: Scaffold towers around the full perimeter, basecoat and mesh carried through every panel joint, and finish coats scheduled by elevation for the right temperatures.
Result: Foundation 2024, steel frame 2024, EIFS envelope finished fall 2025; interior fit-out continuing in 2026.

Photos

8 photographs — before, during and after. Click any photo to enlarge.

During: basecoat and finish from scaffold towers, October 2025

During: scaffold tower at the tall elevation, summer 2025

2024: forming the foundation walls on the hillside

2024: the cold-formed steel frame erected

Summer 2025: basecoat stage under full-perimeter scaffold

Video

Pouring and screeding the slab
Steel Mountain Villa, Catskills — May 2025

The finished EIFS envelope, walk-around
Steel Mountain Villa — February 2026

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