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| The stucco we tore off was less than twenty
years old. The
reason it failed was it was way too thin. Total thickness of scratch
coat
and
finish coat over metal lath was about 1/4" instead of the 3/4" to 1 inch thickness which is a standard. I have seen this practice lately on new houses, and it needs to stop. |
No, mortar won't bond to durock. Here mortar is stripped off durock easily. This is another practice that needs to stop.. |
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| Bands, columns and insets are framed up by furring over the wall with 2 by 4's. | Space is allowed under the window for the drip groove to function. |
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| Metal lath is put on durock to make sure the mortar never falls off. | First, we put on a color coat without pebbles.
Stucco color is from Expo stucco. On our first project of color pebble dash,(click here), we used paint colorants. |
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| Usually we use grey portland for pebble dash,which is later
painted.The
reason we haven't done color pebble dash before is that color work
requires
white portland, which sets a lot faster and may not give us time to
finish
the wall. |
Another beautiful stucco project. Color is "Milk shake" from Expo Stucco. |