Have a question in regards to trimming out stucco siding. Am doing some deck work for a customer who is also currently having her Tudor-style house painted, and has asked me to replace several damaged trim boards for the painters. The old boards have been nailed onto a concrete surface which backs the stucco siding. Any thoughts out there on how to attach these trim boards? Barring gunning studs to basement concrete with powder-driven nails, I’ve never dealt with any kind of application like this, and I’d really like to avoid loading up a Remington for each nail I drive. Thanks!
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Len, We do a couple of things, first we use spanish cedar and if it is to be painted we oil base prime all sides of the wood. We use either copper, stainless or terne coated stainless metal and bend it as a flashing sort of "Z" shaped and put it on top of the board between the stucco and wood. Then we caulk and paint. This way water never runs behind the wood again. But if you cannot use the metal. Spanish cedar if probably the best wood to use since it is rot, insect and termite resistant. The Incas in S. America made there canoes out of this wood and I have read where they lasted hundreds of years. Jim
Hilti makes stainless concrete screws. Maybe screw and plug the holes?
Second the backprime motion.
Edited 9/25/2002 9:17:33 PM ET by DCASSII