In a message dated Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:47:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

> . I have seen it installed over the first floor of a wood frame house as well as on brick storefronts. So, what happens to the substrate in wood frame buildings? Is water infilatration prevented because it is a totally cementitous layer, not
> styrofoam ... or because we just haven't heard about it.

The stucco is still gonna crack or separate at the edges.  What holds it in place is the galv wire mesh nailed to the substrate.  When the mesh rusts, or the nails pull outta the mortar joints, there's gonna be a lot of weight peeling off in large sheets.

But I haven't seen it fail either.  Unless you count the wire lath & plaster over rock wood lath & plaster on my parlor ceiling, which came down about 11:30 one night and woulda killed anybody underneath it.

Ralph
Ralph

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