In the summer of 2008, I wrote an article for the Minnesota Lath and Plaster Bureau newsletter On the Wall entitled “Ten New Reasons Why EIFS Should Be Your #1 Choice of Cladding.”¹ Recently, I came to realize that six years later, that list of reasons is incomplete. So, I set out to compile a more complete list and actually came up with several more. I am not going to tell you exactly how many more, because it might obligate me to write yet another article on this versatile product. Here however are the next ten reasons I came up with, not necessarily in order of importance.
In the 1980’s chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) began to be phased out in the manufacture of refrigerants, solvents, plastics, propellants and as blowing agents for foam plastics. It was determined that CFC’s were a major contributor to the depletion of the ozone layer high above us in the stratosphere surrounding the planet. HFCs then became the accepted alternative. Although HFCs do not contribute to ozone depletion, it has been determined that they are potent greenhouse gases.