1950’s Leawood house that has been re-habbed. Inspection is Wednesday, but I drove by today, and noticed all new stucco on all exterior areas. I left after noticing no flashings at the windows, no roof flashings, even no guttering. It appears EIFS, very thin. All new at all sildes. Ranch home. No expansion joints at long sides. Stucco covering is to the ground level, and under in a lot of areas. Lots of mulch. I have my work cut out for me looks like. Looks like a bad job all the way around. I have done stucco checks in the past, but this one is deffinately not done right. $600K home.
ASTM says you need them.
With that said you will be very hard pressed to find a stucco job in the metro that is installed to ASTM specs.
Lets talk more about it after your inspection.
Thanks for the replys. I will look forward to taking the course. Tim:)
My new home that I built in 2004 has the joints in the stucco, but the stucco that I have is think. This Leawood stucco job will be lucky to last 3 years. And, the fact that I believe the home was re-habbed by the listing agent, et. al. You know the drill.
I bet your windows are improperly installed.
Stucco is just on the front o fmy home. Board three sides. Lots of flashings. Bottom siding joints are lapped, not flashed. Had it built that way. Still all looks new. My wife is on me always about keep up home maintenance. No, she does not help me on inspections.
I will take plenty of pics Wednesday for sure. Buyer is out of town. I can sense a problem with this inspection. When you do a few thousand, it is a sense that is a curse. I have more trouble with re-habs than any other type home. Thanks Carl.
Do you know what is on your house for moisture barrier?
Do you have wood trim around your windows?
Wood trim, all flashed. Tyvek. Anderson casement windows. Low E. all vinyl clad. No wood exposed on the frames. Bottoms of casement panels all vinyl covered. Lifetime warranty. Best I could find. My highest gas bill last winter was $58. Bragging over. Have to go spend time with the wife.
some stucco basics, not that we’ll agree on everything published in these
http://buildingcodes.jocogov.org/documents/Stucco.pdf
http://www.parex.com/pdf/stuccoma.pdf
http://www.mnlath-plaster.com/listing/StuccoResidConstr.pdf
And here is thier check list.
How did it go Gary?
Good info Barry.
Like you said most of it anyway.
Carl, they were very serious about construction quality a few years back
~from The Code of Hammurabi(circa 1780 B.C.)
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If a builder build a house for some one and complete it, he shall give him a fee of two shekels in money for each sar of surface.
229
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
230
If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.
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If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.
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If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.
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If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.
no mention of wives or daughters…my how times have changed…:twisted: