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One coat "stucco" on foam is
EIFS
Reggie, I would like to
respond
to your question and answer involving the guy from California who was
upset
that his 1 coat stucco house was considered to be an EIFS product thus
should be considered garbage. Our company builds homes in the western
Arizona
market and has always used the La Habra 1 coat system as have
most
everyone else here, and I don't think any builder is under the
impression
that they are selling anyone a EIFS product, at least in the truest
sense.
I was under the impression, and correct me if I'm wrong, that EIFS
systems
did not utilize weep screeds to expel trapped moisture and building
paper/felt
moisturebarriers under the foam board. Also I was under the
impression
that the synthetic stucco they apply is only 1/8 inch thick.
Clearly, what I
had read
about this EIFS system, and its associated problems had led me to
believe
it is junk. With the 1 coats addition of a weep screed, moisure
barrier,
expanded diamond mesh lath, 1/2 inch thick brown coat, and 1/8 inch
thick
color coat, I think it is unfair to paint both systems with the same
brush.
In would also like to add, that although I do not agree with La Habras
claims that their 1 coat system is as strong as a traditional 3 coat,
most
people would sacrifice that extra strenth for the insulative values
that
the 1 inch foam board offers, especially when you have 125 degrees
beating
down on your house mid summer
I appeciate your
comment.
I get to be closed-minded
sometimes.
Here the one coat stucco is
done
by the same people that did EIFS before, and don't have
any
plastering skills, and the walls look like the ocean.
My main mission in business
is
to preserve a dying tradition using traditional methods and
materials,
but have terrible R-factors. |