One coat stucco-
The Coming Stucco-Pocalypse ?
The Journal of light construction has always been a cutting edge publication.
It is known for it's how to and reviews of products and methods both new and old.
This last issue on one coat stucco hit the nail on the head. I have written about one coat stucco before. It is marketed as real stucco, hard coat stucco, etc. but it is far from traditional 3 coat stucco.
One Coat stucco rots house
in Washington, DC.
One coat stucco base coat comes in a bag marked one coat stucco. The basecoat requires adding sand, or some already has sand. The basecoat normally is applied between 1/4" to 3/8" thick instead of the industry standard thickness for traditional stucco of 3/4 of an inch. Traditional stucco has cement and sand finish coat, where one coat has a synthetic finish. Synthetic finish is an acrylic paint, usually with plastic sand.