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   donpapenburg | Dec 17, 2006 06:26am | #1

   No reason that you can't do that.  You could even do peble dash or glass dash  patterns

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   brownbagg | Dec 17, 2006 06:29am | #2

   if you could pick it up without breaking, it be great

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   MrJalapeno | Dec 17, 2006 08:18am | #3

   I’m a builder/framer with some tilt wall experience.  It’s not a very practical solution if you’re just worried about the moisture issues of stucco. 

    

   To do tilt wall you have to pour an extra smooth sacrificial slab to form up the tilt walls on.  They have to have weld plates installed that match the locations of the plates on your slab, and lift hooks to crane them in place, and window and doorframes put in them, and you spray release oil on everything, and have a concrete truck come, crane, welder, etc…  It is more practical for commercial applications where there is a lot of repetition in the wall design, like with Schools, and Shopping Malls, etc

    

   What I like… to help guard against moisture issues with stucco is have a masonry wainscot at least to keep the sometimes- (most-times) exposed sheathing edge from wicking water due to splashing of the roof run-off.  It is nicer if this wainscot is at least up to the window bottoms or higher.  Put the brick/rock up first leaving the sill-cap off so the stucco guys can flash their waterproof lath out through the masonry, then put on the cap (with some slope too).

    

   With whatever materials you use on your home, always flash to channel water out over the veneer, not behind it.  (As so many builders are doing around here, Tyvec is not flashing!)

    

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   Edited 12/17/2006 12:22 am ET by MrJalapeno

   
   

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   Edited 12/17/2006 12:23 am ET by MrJalapeno