Stucco detail needed, please advise
Doing a little vestibule on a commercial building, outside cladding is stucco, the real stuff, portland cement, felt first, diamond lath, scratch, brown, finish, overall t of about 7/8″.
If you know stucco, you know the drill. We’ve no drawings, we’re just feeling our way.
What is needed are details for doing simple returns at the aluminum-framed windows. These are commercial, all-aluminum, Kawneer. Storefront-type stuff.
Straight returns at sides and head, and a sloped sill.
How do we build to achieve this? Do we put a subframe in our 2×6 wallframe opening, 3/4 thick at sides, 1.5 thick at bottom (or more), so that the stucco thickness buildup at the perimeter doesn’t cover the frame face much or at all?
Point me toward a resource, please.
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I could be wrong but this product should do it.
http://amico-lath.com/lath/x1_cornerbead.htm
I've seen the top/color coat just barely cover the metal window by an 1/8".
I'd protect the window with tape and paper. The tape could come right (1/8") to where you want the color coat to stop. That would give them a good straight line to shoot for.