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   PD | Sep 08, 2005 12:26pm | #1

   If you mean the rounded area at the windows? I would venture a guess and say the structural foam trim. Not sure what else to call it.

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   FastEddie | Sep 08, 2005 03:54pm | #3

   I agree ... sort of.  I wouldn't call the foam 'structural', but it is foam that is shaped to all kinds of profiles and then covered with synthetic stucco.  Standard practice on most of the stucco houses here.  Typically used for sill, quoins, fleur-d-lis.

   And it looks like sloppy work on the flat areas.

     

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

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   joeh | Sep 08, 2005 05:43pm | #4

   It's the flat areas I'm wondering about.

   Something coming loose under the stucco? Cracking?

   The foam window details are on EVERY McMansion built here too. Every one of them looks like it's out of the "100 most popular house plans" books at HD. Although "10 most popular plans with the worst roofs" would be closer.

   Joe H

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   FastEddie | Sep 08, 2005 06:04pm | #5

   Looks like the studs are at 24" and the sheathing was too thin to properly span that gap.  So the sheathing is wavy and the stucco sub just covered it all up ... after all, he had only 3 days to do a quality job on that house before he had to start the next one.

     

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

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   MisterT | Sep 08, 2005 12:50pm | #2

   shoddy workmanship???

   not hiding very well I might add.

    

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