Two things inspired this article. One was reading a take on it by my good friend Al Levi, who writes for Plumbing & Mechanical magazine (a sister publication to Walls & Ceilings). Levi discusses his father’s absolute prohibition against his sons dating the hired help in their family business.
At present there are a myriad of changes being proposed for the ASTM Standards that govern stucco in the Florida Building Code. There are two basic types of changes that are undertaken, editorial and content, and by far the most common are editorial.
Because EIFS are a jointless type of wall cladding that can be installed over a huge wall area without joints at all, it’s clear that the only way for water to get behind the EIFS is somewhere at the edge of the EIFS. This penetration is most often at windows, openings and flashings.
The preceding is the beginning of a song performed by Styx that was a hit in the ’80s. It describes the trials and tribulations that many people faced during that time by misusing a certain illegal white substance.
Have you been around long enough to see the changes in construction? Remember when general contractors actually knew how to organize and schedule a project to actually run efficiently and not just a lot of talk about production?
A recent report titled “The Green Outlook 2011: Green Trends Driving Growth through 2015,” by Harvey M. Bernstein, paints a very rosy picture for green building growth in the coming years.
Subcontractors everywhere are scrambling for work, and what work they’re managing to land isn’t very profitable, but there’s at least one little silver lining amid all the clouds.
Expanded polystyrene insulation and polyisocyanurate foam polyiso are the two main insulation types used in EIFS in North America. Overseas, many other types of insulation are used to make EIFS, such a mineral wool and “glass foam.”
Last year, one of my frequent golf buddies called me in a panic: two corners of a small piece of wallboard attached to his garage ceiling had come loose. Could I come over and look at it before it fell on his car?
So much change and yet so much remains the same. For years, the codes referred to this mystical product as the “weather” resistive barrier but the new I-Codes deemed it more appropriate to call it the “water” resistive barrier.
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