Stucco

ScribeWare co-founder Dylan Chalk started sharing his knowledge to the home inspection community through a blog, podcast, and continuing education classes long before he and his buddy Steve Lamb started to build the best inspection software that could be built. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. The reality is that sharing professional best practices with the home inspection community at large is central to the whole point of ScribeWare: build the best inspection report software, and build it with templates, pre-written comments, and prompts so that it actually helps inspectors be better at their job.

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Home Inspection on Hardcoat Stucco Siding Systems

Hardcoat Stucco basics Hardcoat stucco is an ancient building material that was historically applied over masonry buildings and was often referred to as plaster. Modern stucco is made of Portland cement, lime and sand and is often installed over wood-framed buildings in North American residential construction. Quality stucco siding systems are three or more coats of Portland Cement applied over a lath system that helps attach the plaster to the house. The resulting plaster siding system should be 3/4 of an inch...