Roof Or Stucco First

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Roof or stucco first.

The first coat is allowed to dry cure before the second layer is applied. Put on your roof before the stucco with a few exceptions. Also stucco repairs are usually painfully obvious. A stucco wall is designed to last for centuries.

Examples of roofs that can t be walked on are. A brush is not used because it will cause delamination. A thirty year roof is designed to last for thirty years. First roof first as quoted previously flashing in stucco can be tricky and tends to crumble.

A trowel is used to scratch the surface horizontally or in a crisscross pattern to provide a key for the second layer. In this case it is necessary to put on a counter flashing first stucco next overlapping the counter flashing with stucco then put on the finished roof. The exceptions are when there are roofs that can t be walked on without possible damage to the roof. The first layer of plaster is called a scratch coat consisting of plastic cement and sand.

The earliest stucco contained lime instead of cement and because its ingredients are easily found in nature it s one of the oldest natural types of siding around dating back to ancient greece. If you take a stucco wall down to a thirty year roof then you have to jackhammer into the stucco just to replace the roof.