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In Need of Stucco Replacement Ideas... (post #188871)

Sweet_Tea on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 19:43
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I've got a 1993 stucco house, and the stucco is coming off!  Only problem is that finding an alternative design to replace stucco is not an easy swap.  Pic attached....any ideas?

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Aluminum siding. (post #188871, reply #1 of 8)

by DanH in reply to Sweet_Tea [original] on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 04:51

Aluminum siding.


We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. --Thomas Edison

aluminum siding (post #188871, reply #4 of 8)

by BonnieBb in reply to DanH [original] on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 19:05

DanH and Sweet _Tea.

 

OMG.  Not aluminum siding.!  When I lived in detroit, I bought this 1928 English Tudor.  And I spent a great deal of time taking off the aluminum siding and restoring the natural stucco and brick exterior.  Houses should have natural exteriors.  And aluminum is not one of them!  Besides the house looks too nice.

 

Bonnie 

White is poison to a picture!  Use it only in highlights.

Peter Paul Rubens. 1577-1640.

I would add: don't use white in architecture either, except rarely and sparingly.


Fuggedaboutit.  Sweet Tea (post #188871, reply #5 of 8)

by DanH in reply to BonnieBb [original] on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 19:23

Fuggedaboutit.  Sweet Tea turned sour on us almost immediately -- has never been back.


We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. --Thomas Edison

Oh. I am two months late. (post #188871, reply #6 of 8)

by BonnieBb in reply to DanH [original] on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 19:33

DanH. 

Oh.  I am two months late in replying.  I just saw stucco and I had to respond. Maybe she does not know what kind of material she has.  But it seems unlikely it is real stucco, by the photo. Wrong house style.  Too green a climate.  Real stucco just does not fall off.

 

Bonnie

White is poison to a picture!  Use it only in highlights.

Peter Paul Rubens. 1577-1640.

I would add: don't use white in architecture either, except rarely and sparingly.


(Would help to know where you (post #188871, reply #2 of 8)

by DanH in reply to Sweet_Tea [original] on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 04:53

(Would help to know where you live, and whether this is (by some miracle) "real" stucco, or one of the stucco paint over foam board variants.)


We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. --Thomas Edison

real stucco or synthetic (post #188871, reply #3 of 8)

by BonnieBb in reply to Sweet_Tea [original] on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 18:58

Is this house covered with real stucco, that is: wire mesh and several coats of the real stuff?

or is it synthetic?

Where is the house located?

 

Bonnie

Where I live, every house is real stucco.  So I have quite a bit of experience dealing with it.

White is poison to a picture!  Use it only in highlights.

Peter Paul Rubens. 1577-1640.

I would add: don't use white in architecture either, except rarely and sparingly.


"stucco" (post #188871, reply #7 of 8)

by semar in reply to Sweet_Tea [original] on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 18:45

My guess is the home is covered with foam, then acrylic coating is applied over it.

It can be fixed with the same method as constructed. Chances are it will re-occur at other places over time.

If you want new exterior finish, remove the EIFIS and replace it with real stucco. Add a few trim details and the house will have a real curb appeal. The longer you wait  the more it will cost

Aluminum cheapens the look. And vinyl siding would look horrible.

Take pictures and incorporate it in a photoshop on the computer and play around with materials (Hardiboard and stucco, "stone" veneers and stucco).

If you want to keep the house for a longer time, you cannot go wrong with the real stucco

stucco and climate (post #188871, reply #8 of 8)

by warrenblack1 in reply to semar [original] on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 17:34

My home in souther Ohio had real brick and "real" lime & mortar stucco. Stucco fell off  dormers  due to hot summers, cold winters and the expansion different from the metal lath ( house built in 1917 as a bungalow with walls 3 bricks thick on 14 inch concrete basement walls). I replaced with cement board ( Hardie board) resembling the former stucco. Has now been 25 years and have had no problems. Choice was made bacause of National Register of Historic Places. Have had numerous "looks great" comments from so called "preservationists" that haven't realized the change I made.

Not the cross, but its light!