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EIFS Garbage (synthetic "stucco")
dear applicator ,
whether you may realize
it or
not , stucco is being pegged as a generic name for a four letter word
in
our industry . i can't believe that someone associated with our
industry
would ever say garbage about a product that when properly installed ,
performs
better than any other siding. please be forewarned that you are loading
the bullets in the guns of the industries that are trying to put both
you
and I out of business.
Jeff Shuck
C.O.O.
Southwest Lath &
Plaster
, Inc.
Jeff,
The true four-letter word here is EIFS. It
is
the EIFS contractor that has made stucco the bad word. The phone book
and
the Blue book are full of "stucco contractors" that don't do stucco at
all, making it harder to locate legitimate plastering contractors.
Houses represented as "stucco houses"
are sold
to unsuspecting home buyers. EIFS is probably the worst consumer fraud
there has ever been in this country, and is unfair competition to the
legitimate
plastering contractor. I feel that it
is fraud to represent this material as
stucco,
criminal fraud.
EIFS is a low skilled trade making it
easy to
find qualified workers and produce quick job turn arounds, and quick
profits.
I think almost all of it is applied "properly", and still rots framing
and sheathing. It seems very hard to screw it up.
I don't know who "our industy" is, but
my business
is promoting and preserving a proud tradition of plastering than
extends
back to the ancient Romans, and before. Plastering is applying plaster,
including cement plaster, and not
some modern plastic material that comes out
of
a bucket
If EIFS garbage could stand on it's own
merits,
why can't contractors call themselves EIFS contractors instead of
"stucco"
(sic) contractors ? Why can't houses be sold honestly as EIFS houses
and
not "stucco" houses?
If you
like synthetic garbage so much, why not
change your name to Southwest EIFS instead of Southwest lath and
plaster?
Let's be honest
here.
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