Repair missing concrete stucco at the bottom of a wall.
Fill it back up where the ground has settled, as it's normal.
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Why does the foundation show on the stucco bottom walls anyway?
Missing stucco at the bottom of most stucco walls is usually caused by ground settling.
Hello ambitious guys and gals interested in learning how to do it yourself, now possibly you can.
How? Watch this video to explain. We show and explain how to repair a foundation with stucco and cement plaster; the idea is to make it look good again so it’s not such an eyesore.
We use Portland stucco mixed with three times the sand for this and most other repairs.
Or you could simply buy “Rapid Set Stucco” at HD or Lowe’s and just add water and apply.
FYI, ground settling is as natural as white rice.
Perhaps this example will provide an easier understanding of what I’m referring to.
When I was an apprentice working for big plastering firms, the company I worked for was hired to stucco a new theater in Blackhawk.
I was working on this gun crew that blew the stucco onto the walls of this large movie theater. As usual, we stopped the stucco on the ground.
Jump ahead 35 years later. I am now a plastering contractor.
I got a call from a general contractor saying the bottoms of this same movie theater had cement about six-inches to a foot pointing outward horizontally a foot above the ground. That was nearly the stucco that fell and was not cleaned up, thus stuck to the concrete foundation and then showed as the dirt compacted.
I point this out to our subscribers and all who find themselves on this channel for whatever reason, as what we’re doing is common and not costly.
We show and explain how you can do it for the cost of materials.
I charged a few hundred bucks to fix this eyesore.
In 1980 a new rule or code came out that specified all new homes would have weep or drip metal screeds around the bottom perimeter hung an inch below the mud sill. The rule was that the stucco be at least 6 inches in a perfect world, this world is far from perfect.
Before 1980, most stucco homes brought stucco on top of the concrete foundation.
That means 80% of all homes in the country have the stucco touching the ground, big deal, my own home also had the stucco touching the ground.
FYI, folks’ ground settling is normal.
However, it gives the impression that stucco is missing at the bottom of the house instead of the ground compacting.
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