When It Comes To A Cladding, You Want One That Weathers Well, Is Impact Resistant, Easy To Apply, And All In All: Simple. When It Comes To A CI Exterior Cladding, Choose EIFS.
It’s as old as the Pyramids. An ancient building technique that in its basic form, contains very few ingredients. A simple combination of water, sand and lime or gypsum, and voila! You have plaster. In one form or another the basic three ingredient component still exists. Somewhere over time a veneer plaster coating was “upgraded” to become an exterior coating or cladding, then was enhanced with a binder, and we had stucco. The stucco of today still has that basic ingredient combination and, like the relatively newer engineered EIFS, falls under the moniker of simplicity offering ultimate sophistication.
When I say stucco I’m referring to the three coat version. The bread-and-butter assembly. A cladding that weathers well, is impact resistant and in some areas, common for exterior claddings.