I’m going to look at a house which is stucco and built in the 50’s. The house is down near the water and stucco isn’t doesn’t really fit in the area. What would need to be done to remove the stucco and prep it for shingles or vinyl?
Thanks
Jason
Not sure. Could you possibly put vinyl over the stucco?
Do not remove the stucco. All you have to do is put fur strips or 1X2’s over the stucco spaced out every 16 inches all the way around the house. Make sure you use a long enough nail to penetrate through the wood and stucco. I recommend you use framing nails, a 12 or 16 penny nail will do. Behind the stucco is plywood, you want to make sure the nail penetrates the plywood. After you do that, go with your new siding. Wood or vinyl siding will do, fairly easy to do.
Hope this helps, good luck
JOhn
If you do this, make sure it’s stick built first… not all stucco is on stick built houses. My current rehab is a stucco, but it’s over brick.
I have a Bostitch coil nailer with an attachment I use for siding. Use 1 3/4" coil nails directly into the stucco, if it’s in semi-decent shape. Adjust the line pressure accordingly to prevent the nails being driven in to deep, as not to allow for the vinyl expansion/contraction.
If the walls will not take the 1 3/4" smooth shank coil nails properly (stucco too brittle) then do as the afore mentioned poster recommended and tack 1"x2" firring strips every 16". I’d recommend buying 4’x8’ sheets of any 3/4" thickness wood, or 1/2" thick if you wish, and quick ripping them down to 2" wide or so. OSB or standard plywood is fine. If using pneumatic framing guns or cordless Impulse guns tack the strips to the wall with 3" smooth shank nails or ring shank if you are really anal and worried about them pulling out of the wall.
Good luck with your project.
-Benjamin
Thanks for the info guys. Turns out the house is owned by an investor who paid to much for it and is now trying to unload it because it needs to much work for him to make a profit.
You’re going to see more and more of this…there are a lot of wannabe investors that don’t know how much is too much for a property and are losing their shirts because they overpay for the property and/or underestimate the cost to rehab and now are NOT being bailed out by hyper-appreciation…
Keith
Keith is right on with that one. As a matter of fact, the entire real estate cycle is created by just that - novice investors making malinvestments. Eventually these malinvestments begin to show themselves for what they really are and the pseudo-investor realizes he must sell or face foreclosure. Inventory rises dramatically on the market, and eventually you’ll see the inflated prices come back down to where they really should be, and another cycle will begin.
Nationwide we’re in the midst of the “flushing out” period where all the novice investors are going to realize they dont know what they are doing and get out of the game. For experienced TRUE investors this is when the real money is made as there is a lot of leverage to be had by the buyers. Buy now, hold for another 3-5 years, and sell when the cycle is at it’s peak again.