Just a couple of quick questions here if anyone can help me out. I plan to replace my Katrina ex-house with an 800 sq ft cottage type / beach house with old fashioned stucco construction like that in the pic below.
1) If anyone knows anything about the materials and construction techniques required to reproduce such an exterior I would certainly appreciate your passing that info on to me. The newer stucco material popular these days that feels like Styrofoam when you touch it isn’t anything I’d be interested in. I also like the window and the chipped away plaster-on-brick look.
2) I also like the shingles on the roof but haven’t been able to find any like that, yet. I’m also thinking of a copper roof (I know it’s expensive) unless someone talks me out of it. But in any event, I definitely plan to put on a metal roof whether it ends up as copper, aluminum or steel. Thank you for your help.
Elton Hartzler
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Greetings b,
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someone's attention that can help you with advice.
It would help to repost your picture as an attachment and not just a copy/paste.
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Thanks rez
Your embedded photo does not show up, but the one in the article linked looks like a typical Irish cottage. They are being built with twin layers of masonry block with foam between them. Another way of doing thiss DIY is to use ICF blocks which use like Legos - foam stacked forms for concrete infill and stucco over the exterior.
You may want to shop the books tab above for books by pros for pros on masonry and concrete work, and try using the advanced search feature of this forum. There have been some excellent threads discussing all these methods
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Thanks for the input Piffin
You may want to shop the books tab above for books by pros for pros on masonry and concrete work, and try using the advanced search feature of this forum. There have been some excellent threads discussing all these methods
Some!! Try a couple thousand. I don't expect anyone to cut and paste the best of those articles for me (I was too overwhelmed to read all of them but I did manage to pick up on the fact that EFIS is bad stuff) but if anyone could post a couple of good web sites that would be great. Again, I'm building a new house and want a stucco/plaster/Mediterranean architecture style exterior. Thanks.
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Actually, there is not a thing wrong with EFIS.The problems associated with it all come from poorly done Flashing sequences and design failures that do not allow for drainage planes.But for masonry construction down your way, with a stucco coat on a mediterranean style home, that being a prevalent style in the Gulf coast region, you should not have trouble finding the skilled labour to do this for you - or were you planning to do your own work? I forget.
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But for masonry construction down your way, with a stucco coat on a mediterranean style home, that being a prevalent style in the Gulf coast region, you should not have trouble finding the skilled labour to do this for you - or were you planning to do your own work? I forget.
Thanks again, Piffin, for another informative reply. And I do have a good contractor I trust to find the skilled labour I'll need. I would never do something like that myself without practicing on someone else's house first, yuk, yuk.