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I have part of a stucco home that I need to remove. I want to leave a clean line at the wall that remains. My thought was to use a masonry blade in a circular saw to cut the stucco. Any better ideas? Or do I not need to be so neat?
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If you do what you have proposed, you will get a clean crack at the saw cut. Not only do you not need to be so neat, you need to not be so neat. Cut the stucco some where in the field of that which you want to remove, then carefully (so as to not tear the paper) break it back over a very jagged line, leave the wire lath to a stud, lap the new lath back over this. When the new part is stuccoed the transition will be much less likely to crack.
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Mike
Your are right, let me add just one more tip.
When patching new stucco to old, make sure you wet the old, it eliminates the shrinkage crack between the two.
Gordon
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I have part of a stucco home that I need to remove. I want to leave a clean line at the wall that remains. My thought was to use a masonry blade in a circular saw to cut the stucco. Any better ideas? Or do I not need to be so neat?