If you’re the owner of a Montgomery County stucco home, odds are you have a love-hate relationship with your stucco exterior. And if you’re visiting this website, you’ve most likely dealt with some of the common issues plaguing the owners of stucco homes. Many of the houses facing these issues were designed as luxury homes and only built a short time ago, with materials and building practices which at the time were considered top quality. However, time has revealed the errors in the design of stucco homes. The … [Read more...] about Beneath the Surface: How Stucco Problems Can Be Symptomatic of Bigger Issues
3 Common Stucco Problems: How They Happen & How We Can Fix Them
Stucco homes are a bit of a conundrum. When stucco is done right, it can help make your home more energy efficient, fire retardant, and less susceptible to noise pollution. However, if a stucco exterior is poorly installed or not properly maintained, there are several serious issues which can arise and end up damaging your home. Most of the time, these issues are water related and have to do with excess moisture becoming trapped in your home. There are three very common issues which result from poor craftsmanship … [Read more...] about 3 Common Stucco Problems: How They Happen & How We Can Fix Them
There Is No Insurance Coverage for Faulty Workmanship in PA
A common misconception among contractors and owners is that their commercial general liability insurance policy covers property damage caused by faulty workmanship. Pennsylvania breaks with many other states in holding that property damage caused by faulty workmanship is not an “occurrence” as defined in most CGL policies. In Kvaerner Metals Division of Kvaerner U.S., Inc. v. Commercial Union Insurance Co., 908 A.2d 888 (2006), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court of Pennsylvania was asked to decide … [Read more...] about There Is No Insurance Coverage for Faulty Workmanship in PA
Homeowners Face Uphill Battle in Stucco Defect Cases
The local CBS affiliate in Philadelphia has a story that many lawyers already know: defectively installed stucco is causing homeowners to spend thousands of dollars to repair their homes. The story underscores another problem homeowners face: they will not likely recover a dime of their repair costs. The story recounts an all too familiar tale of homeowners who discovered defects related to improperly applied stucco, brought suit against the builder, obtained a judgment, but have been unable to collect on … [Read more...] about Homeowners Face Uphill Battle in Stucco Defect Cases
Eastern PA: Stucco Failure Capital of USA
Stucco Woes: The Perfect Storm By Joseph Lstiburek Building Science Insight 29: last updated 2010/01/22 Download PDF As in most things gone horribly wrong, it is a bunch of seemingly small things that come together to create an almost unimaginable nightmare—in this case the “perfect stucco storm.” Unlike most water rants, particularly rainwater rants, we are not going to talk about this being the architect’s fault for not having overhangs—or this being the fault of that increasingly popular and peculiar … [Read more...] about Eastern PA: Stucco Failure Capital of USA
Kick Out Flashing
STUCCORxCURRENTLY TREATING: Kick Out FlashingSpend a few hundred today and save thousands tomorrowMissing Kick Out flashing is a big red flag as we very often discover significant damage to stucco, sheathing, and framing in these locations.One of the biggest potential leak areas on any house is where the eave overhang meets a vertical wall. In this area, where the stucco wall continues past the bottom edge of the roofline, Kick Out Flashing must be installed where the first few courses of roofing abut the … [Read more...] about Kick Out Flashing
Setting the Record Straight on Refinishing Stucco
Note: The name of the community (“Maple Hill”) and resident (“Mr. Rogers”) were changed before posting for privacy. This is a copy of Ai Restoration’s response that was sent to all residents of “Maple Hill.”Ai Restoration was contracted by a homeowner at Maple Hill to perform the needed restoration work to their stucco this spring. They received a letter with an attached article which has been circulating around Maple Hill and asked us to review it. The letter was written … [Read more...] about Setting the Record Straight on Refinishing Stucco
