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I’ve been asked to remove stucco from a 25 year old home in the Chicago area. The home owner wants to replace the stucco with some type of synthetic stucco looking product. He heard of some new “fake” stucco board that is available. I’ve yet to find anything of this nature at my local supplier. Any ideas?
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Italian meringue buttercream might work.
*James Hardie makes a 4 x 8 sheet cementitous board which looks like stucco (do a search under the name- they have a good website)Buttercream just won't last through a good rainstorm
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Stucco was invented as a "fake" plaster. Now we have a fake "fake"?
Lord, Lord.
Ed. Williams
*Bill,In NWOhio one can get "stucco board" which is a masonite/pressboard product with an embossed surface which is supposed to look like stucco. Very popular here 20 odd years ago, and still around. Personally, I think any such product is pretty questionable outdoors, and is very prone to water damage. (There's a whole neighborhood which has the stuff and most has deteriorated.)When new, it looks ok on a "Tudor" style home, but that's about it.Bob
*Stucco is not fake plaster. Stucco is very real plaster. Originally all plaster was lime plaster applied over masonry. With the advent of frame buildings it came to be applied over wood lath nailed to the framing. Eventually the lime was suplimented/replaced with portland cement for exteriors -- Stucco and with gypsum for interiors. Metal lath came to be used on the exterior and gypsum lath on the interior. Drywall is certainly "fake" plaster, debatably inferior, but stucco is neither fake nor inferior.There are a number of synthetic stucco products that have been used. Some of these have notoriously high failure rates. I would definitely stay away from synthetic stucco until the materials have been thouroughly proven over the course of time.
*Odd timing. A headline in yesterday's Tribune about Chicago considering a ban on eifs - truely fake stucco - just a little better than the buttercream I think.
*Hey Mike,Didn't mean to get your shackles up. An old plaster man told me, when I questioned him on the subject, that gypsum based plaster (Stucco as he called it) was inferior to the cement based plaster that they used for interior walls before the advent of drywall. That was his take on the subject, but he thought that drywall was an abomination. Just like I feel about MDF when used as plywood.Ed. Williams
*Ed, You didn't rankle my shackles at all. I just thought I'd include a bit of building history.
*Try checking out Grailcoat, their website is http://WWW.grailcoat.com
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I've been asked to remove stucco from a 25 year old home in the Chicago area. The home owner wants to replace the stucco with some type of synthetic stucco looking product. He heard of some new "fake" stucco board that is available. I've yet to find anything of this nature at my local supplier. Any ideas?