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Old 04-21-2017, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Carla B View Post
Our "Lantana" house is stucco over block, except for stucco over wood on the garage and golf cart garage gables. The stucco over wood failed when the house was eight years old and had to be torn out and redone at our expense. The builder said our failing to have the house repainted when it was five years old caused the problem.

After the repairs, we hired Steve Kling to repaint the house. Sherwin-Wms guaranteed the paint for 25 years, so one wonders what quality of paint the builder uses.
More problems seem to be coming to the surface. Is there a quality problem with the builder ? Perhaps meeting code is not good enough.