Identifying EIFS

[Michael L. Stanford]

What is the best way to recognize EIFS vs regular stucco?

[Carl Brown]

Why would you ask in 2 sections?

http://www.badstucco.com

[rcooke]

Originally Posted by mstanford

What is the best way to recognize EIFS vs regular stucco?

This is the second post today by you did you not get enough information the first time http://www.nachi.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6921
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Identifying EIFS
What is the best way to identify EIFS vs regular stucco?


Roy Cooke

[pdoane]

Easy... knock on it like you're knocking on a door. If your knuckles bleed its real stucco

[Larry Ewens]

And of it sounds hollow it is most likely EIFS.
Larry

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

Guys - Quit jerking the guy around. Do like we do - drill a hole in it and look.

[Carl Brown]

Or ask the neighborhood
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[Doug Edwards, CMI]

Go here and learn

http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpa...en&ac=r&q=EIFS

[Doug Edwards, CMI]

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[Carl Brown]

You guys really can't just look at it and tell?

Thats allright there is alot of smart people on this board who know more about the rest of the houses then I do!

[Doug Edwards, CMI]

Sure, but how do you tell someone else how to do that on a BB. Like trying to describe an elephant to a blind man.

[Ted Allen]

Originally Posted by cbrown1

You guys really can't just look at it and tell?

Thats allright there is alot of smart people on this board who know more about the rest of the houses then I do!

I asked the exact same questions 2+ years ago.....


EIFS has no weep screed....1st check. EIFS has no metel screen.. Pull a plate.... See metel screen?
There are some other ways , but this should do it.

It really is easy once you know what to look for....


I had the hardest time with this, now I can see it a foot away....

[Carl Brown]

Most of the hard cote stucco in the kansas city metro has no weepscreed either.

[Carl Brown]

Weepscreed is overated. The caseing bead /66/stop/j-trim has holes in the back of it to let the water out also.

And it -weepscreed is ugly! And the corner beads crack out more when you use weepscreed. When 66/caseing bead is used the beads sit in a pocket and are less likely to crackout. When the caseing bead is folded around the corner and not cut.

[Ted Allen]

Originally Posted by cbrown1

Weepscreed is overated. The caseing bead /66/stop/j-trim has holes in the back of it to let the water out also.

And it -weepscreed is ugly! And the corner beads crack out more when you use weepscreed. When 66/caseing bead is used the beads sit in a pocket and are less likely to crackout. When the caseing bead is folded around the corner and not cut.

I am talking about "weep screed' with weep holes at the bottom of a hard coat system.... You cant see it.