[Greenbuilding] Stucco overhead?

[Speireag Alden]

Hallo.

     Trying to get a base layer of stucco up over the entryway before 
it gets too cold.  Tomorrow is pretty much my last opportunity, based 
on the forecast.  I have some surface-bond cement, and tried to use 
that, but it doesn't like to adhere to the mesh, and comes away in 
wet, cohesive sheets.  I'm making headway, patch by patch, but it's 
time consuming and clearly not made for it.  I think that there are 
too many fibers, and it's actually too sticky, sticking to itself in 
preference to the expanded metal lath.

     I wouldn't mind using straight-up traditional lime stucco, which 
I can make whenever I want, but I suspect that it would not stick 
well enough in an overhead.

     Can anyone suggest something which will stick nicely to expanded 
metal lath, and make a decent substrate for later brown and finish 
coats?

-Speireag.

-- 
The chill's in the air
Even so, we are gaining
on Old Man Winter.

-Speireag.