Million dollar stucco

[palmettoinspect]

I wanted to share some of the the pictures from the house I inspected today. The home is on the market for $1,000,000. You would think for the price the traditional stucco coat would have at least been done right.

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[Nolan Kienitz]

Why?

It's stucco !!

A friend of mine in the Houston market who is a specialist for stucco and similar cladding (15 plus years) ... says he has never seen ONE installation that is correct.

No matter if it is a 'spensive house or a less than 'spensive house.

However ... one would hope/think that someone would get it right sometime or somewhere.

[Marc]

It's residential. There's no architect in the picture to specify common features of a proper installation. Every residential stucco job I've seen here is lacking. Nearly every commercial installation is textbook. I'm thinking of adding a web page to my site that'll explain how to avoid 'pitfalls of new construction' by adding specs to the construction contract and confirming compliance with inspections.

Marc

[BADAIR]

Nolan,

you're welcome to tag along to Ft. Worth this late summer early fall and see a HCS throughout the phase progress

from everything else i've seen so far with this 6K+sqft shaq it won't be anywhere close to right & proper

i'm like your friend in Houston, never seen one here either

[Paul N Frey]

I agree with Marc. Residential stucco sucks - why not since most of the installers can't read english and the super is nowhere to be seen. I have seen contractors that ran out of poly and went to the hardware store and purchaded a few coolers to fill in with!!

[palmettoinspect]

It's a shame. You would think the cost of the home would have at least something to do with it.

[Ben H]

It's a shame. You would think the cost of the home would have at least something to do with it.

Not around here. Same crap, just more of it.