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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:36:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:51:31 PM EDT
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I'm not a pro but I lived in a 90 year old stucco house that looked better than that.
It won't be on there much past the next freeze. |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:52:53 PM EDT
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they are very hairline. I zoomed in a lot
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:55:29 PM EDT
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If you are in a cold climate, yes.
Had stucco in Minnesota...what stupidity. |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:55:37 PM EDT
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I'm no stucco expert, but it may have been applied on a hot sunny day and dried too fast. Not sure about it being a problem though. Maybe a coat or two of a good thick paint will resolve.
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:56:55 PM EDT
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I'm no stucco expert, but it may have been applied on a hot sunny day and dried too fast. Not sure about it being a problem though. Maybe a coat or two of a good thick paint will resolve. That could be. We live in the Desert of southern Utah |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:57:22 PM EDT
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I live in AZ and have a stucco house - I've never seen anything like that.
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:59:12 PM EDT
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I live in AZ and have a stucco house - I've never seen anything like that. We are. Close then. It's only this side of the house. Sun have anything to do with it? |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 10:59:12 PM EDT
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I have been told it's pretty normal. I live in a one year old house and they are going to fix it anyway but the house breathes. As it does you can expect some movement.
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:01:49 PM EDT
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I have been told it's pretty normal. I live in a one year old house and they are going to fix it anyway but the house breathes. As it does you can expect some movement. Yours looks like this? How are they going to fix it? |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:03:02 PM EDT
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It doesn't exist here outside of condos and Mexican restaurants...
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:03:50 PM EDT
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30 year old original stucco on my house and nothing like that at all.
There have been steady lawsuits with home builders over the past decade for crappy stucco work that cracks just like that though. It's not uncommon at all to see complete developments getting re stuccoed. |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:04:57 PM EDT
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Stucco doesnt move in the bahamas, and shit sucks down here. Get that checked out.
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:08:49 PM EDT
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It doesn't exist here outside of condos and Mexican restaurants... There are a shitload of stucco million dollar homes in Virginia. .
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:09:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We are. Close then. It's only this side of the house. Sun have anything to do with it? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I live in AZ and have a stucco house - I've never seen anything like that. We are. Close then. It's only this side of the house. Sun have anything to do with it? I'm thinking your stucco mix wasn't correct for the temperature when it was applied. Here is a pic of the South side of my 18 year old stucco house, it gets AZ sun virtually all day long all year long and the entire South side (all sides) of my house do not have the cracks that you posted.  |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:11:28 PM EDT
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I think there is a paint especially for stucco.
I think its elastomeric. I would just paint it. |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:24:52 PM EDT
[#16]
Probably wasn't cured properly and now you have shrinkage cracks. You can put on another color coat or just paint it if it bothers you.
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:29:40 PM EDT
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Probably wasn't cured properly and now you have shrinkage cracks. You can put on another color coat or just paint it if it bothers you. Would it hurt if I do nothing? |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:32:08 PM EDT
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Would it hurt if I do nothing? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Probably wasn't cured properly and now you have shrinkage cracks. You can put on another color coat or just paint it if it bothers you. Would it hurt if I do nothing? I'd worry about water getting in through the cracks and causing damage. |
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:36:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Would it hurt if I do nothing? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Probably wasn't cured properly and now you have shrinkage cracks. You can put on another color coat or just paint it if it bothers you. Would it hurt if I do nothing? Before I did anything I'd call an exterior stucco guy and get a "real" opinion....
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:38:57 PM EDT
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Jesus people still put stucco on their houses?
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:41:21 PM EDT
[#21]
Try using a paint sprayer, it's what I did to my townhouse in FL, smoothed all the hairline cracks out without screwing up the texture.
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Posted: 6/18/2015 11:44:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jesus people still put stucco on their houses? Down here, if you didn't, you'd be looking at concrete blocks. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 12:06:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jesus people still put stucco on their houses? Hell yes! Better than that manufactured shit they put on the house I had built in KS....  |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 8:22:01 AM EDT
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It has been like this for at least a year that I remember seeing. Could of always been like this. Only bought the house 3 years ago
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Posted: 6/19/2015 8:34:24 AM EDT
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Stucco sucks. It all cracks. I have stucco.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 8:40:12 AM EDT
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I live in AZ and have a stucco house - I've never seen anything like that. I lived in Arizona and every stucco house I ever saw down there looked like that to some degree. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 8:42:11 AM EDT
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Jesus people still put stucco on their houses? I don't know about Jesus people, but a shit load of houses near the ocean are stucco houses. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 8:43:20 AM EDT
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Jesus people still put stucco on their houses? its relatively inexpensive and a hell of a lot nicer than vinyl siding. Stucco with stone accent sections looks really good. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 10:40:48 AM EDT
[#29]
7/8" WL+P is good to go.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 10:42:32 AM EDT
[#30]
South Texas here.... Mine looks nothing like that...... Does it flake off?
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Posted: 6/19/2015 11:01:58 AM EDT
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South Texas here.... Mine looks nothing like that...... Does it flake off? No. Still seems normal |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 11:15:37 AM EDT
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To my eye that looks like Dryvit or EIFS (Exterior Insulation and Finishing Systems) as opposed to Stucco.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 11:17:28 AM EDT
[#33]
The far away pic looks just like mine minus the color. I have have to examine mine close up see if it looks the same.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 11:18:52 AM EDT
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Mine has small cracks like that.
I consider it normal. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 11:22:11 AM EDT
[#35]
not an expert but sure doesn't look right to me and I've seen tons of stucco. I'd get a pro painter with stucco experience come out for an estimate to have it painted and see what they say. Paint might help for a while but I just do not see that stuff holding up long term in the high heat/cold cycles.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 4:43:15 PM EDT
[#36]
That looks like acrylic stucco as opposed to cement stucco. IIRC, the acrylic comes premixed in pails and they just trowel it on.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:04:34 PM EDT
[#37]
Well I had a general contracter that I have worked with in the past look at it. He said it looks like most other houses in the area he worked on. He said it most likely happened within three months of being built and it should not get worse. He said not to worry about it but I can paint it if it bothers me.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:08:22 PM EDT
[#38]
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Well I had a general contracter that I have worked with in the past look at it. He said it looks like most other houses in the area he worked on. He said it most likely happened within three months of being built and it should not get worse. He said not to worry about it but I can paint it if it bothers me. Those cracks normally form when improperly applied. Is what it is |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:17:26 PM EDT
[#39]
That looks like cracked paint to me.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:19:59 PM EDT
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That looks like cracked paint to me. That's what I was going to say. 
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:20:13 PM EDT
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Jesus people still put stucco on their houses? 
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:27:16 PM EDT
[#42]
I am in a 12 yr old stucco house, it doesn't look like that, mine has a few small cracks from settling and that's it.
I will show the picture to a friend that has been doing stucco for over 20 years, he will give me a good answer. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:35:24 PM EDT
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I'm no expert. I'm thinking your stucco mix wasn't correct for the temperature when it was applied. Here is a pic of the South side of my 18 year old stucco house, it gets AZ sun virtually all day long all year long and the entire South side (all sides) of my house do not have the cracks that you posted. http://i.pbase.com/o9/72/325172/1/160467590.TtMEtTYO.Stucco.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I live in AZ and have a stucco house - I've never seen anything like that. We are. Close then. It's only this side of the house. Sun have anything to do with it? Here is a pic of the South side of my 18 year old stucco house, it gets AZ sun virtually all day long all year long and the entire South side (all sides) of my house do not have the cracks that you posted. http://i.pbase.com/o9/72/325172/1/160467590.TtMEtTYO.Stucco.jpg That looks like EIFS (Dryvit, Sto, or a similar brand name), not a traditional cement stucco like the OP seems to have. Yours would be a synthetic material applied over foam board. Kinda looks the same, but very different. OP, my company uses a good bit of elastomeric paint on stucco, and a lot of the municipalities spec it on maintenance projects. It fills/bridges the small cracks, and seems to work well, but I have no idea what the useful life span of it is. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:45:14 PM EDT
[#44]
Bad workmanship on the install, probably will have to be stripped off and redone, its going to cost you big bucks to fix.
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:49:23 PM EDT
[#45]
Nope.
My home is 35 years old and doesn't look like that. In southern Utah I'd be concern about water getting in there and freezing opening the cracks up. |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 6:55:21 PM EDT
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Stucco sucks. It all cracks. I have stucco. Then they did it wrong on your home - unless you're talking about cracks so small you can't get a business card into here and there. Homes settle which cause the structure to stress. Wooden homes bend, concrete, stucco, brick homes not so much. It doesn't help in occasionally the planet rocks-n-rolls. 
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Posted: 6/19/2015 7:01:16 PM EDT
[#47]
I would guess to thick of a coat Op..
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Posted: 6/19/2015 7:50:50 PM EDT
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Nope. My home is 35 years old and doesn't look like that. In southern Utah I'd be concern about water getting in there and freezing opening the cracks up. Winter is average 40-50 degrees here. Every once in awhile it goes below freezing and snows |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 8:01:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That looks like EIFS (Dryvit, Sto, or a similar brand name), not a traditional cement stucco like the OP seems to have. Yours would be a synthetic material applied over foam board. Kinda looks the same, but very different. OP, my company uses a good bit of elastomeric paint on stucco, and a lot of the municipalities spec it on maintenance projects. It fills/bridges the small cracks, and seems to work well, but I have no idea what the useful life span of it is. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I live in AZ and have a stucco house - I've never seen anything like that. We are. Close then. It's only this side of the house. Sun have anything to do with it? Here is a pic of the South side of my 18 year old stucco house, it gets AZ sun virtually all day long all year long and the entire South side (all sides) of my house do not have the cracks that you posted. http://i.pbase.com/o9/72/325172/1/160467590.TtMEtTYO.Stucco.jpg That looks like EIFS (Dryvit, Sto, or a similar brand name), not a traditional cement stucco like the OP seems to have. Yours would be a synthetic material applied over foam board. Kinda looks the same, but very different. OP, my company uses a good bit of elastomeric paint on stucco, and a lot of the municipalities spec it on maintenance projects. It fills/bridges the small cracks, and seems to work well, but I have no idea what the useful life span of it is. I watched when they built my house.
They attached what looked like styrofoam sheeting to the exterior walls, then stapled what looked like chicken coup fencing over it, then spread on the "stuff". |
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Posted: 6/19/2015 8:13:32 PM EDT
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Winter is average 40-50 degrees here. Every once in awhile it goes below freezing and snows Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Nope. My home is 35 years old and doesn't look like that. In southern Utah I'd be concern about water getting in there and freezing opening the cracks up. Winter is average 40-50 degrees here. Every once in awhile it goes below freezing and snows This past winter, mornings were anywhere from 30-50 in Arizona. House is 8 years old. There's actually a crack in the picture below but it is so hairline and runs vertical like a stress crack from long ago. But looks nothing like yours. Usually when stucco comes off, it's in chunks and generally around the edges. 
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