In a message dated 3/18/99 10:13:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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<< It does not hold up well to contact with humans... >>

I also does not hold up very well to contact with the environment. The Journal
of Light Construction did an expose' on the problems caused by moisture
finding it's way behind the "stucco". Big problems and lots of them. It
migrates in around penetrations and is trapped there. Most often it collects
at sill plates and creates a very fungal friendly habitat.

Of course if you squint just right, and think of durability as something that
is figured in years instead on centuries, it almost looks like stucco. Or
maybe it's just that it doesn't look like much of anything else.

Rudy