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Plywood sheathing was wet, but at least wasn't
rotten. The tarpaper was put on poorly, not covering the
top edge. The bottom was plywood, the rest of the wall had
ThermaPly (glorified cardboard).
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I used a
plaster stop as a straight edge to show how far the wall
had buckled. Toll Brothers hired a Russian guy from
Chicago with a large crew of illegal aliens to put this
stuff on.
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Another view of the buckling.
You may have seen what I
wrote about Toll Brothers before. If not, please
click here.
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The top of
the chimney shows why the "stucco" on the chimney failed. Water ran into
these blocks like a sieve. The outside band is foam
EIFS. Toll Brothers claimed in signed letters to
buyers, there was no EIFS on these houses.
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The mortar
on the chimney was coming loose, and I could wiggle it
with my hands.
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We pulled the old thin one coat stucco off a little
at a time. This
is the same stuff the cheap competition claims is real
stucco.
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The wall was covered with
two layers of tarpaper, and self-furring metal lath with a
weep screed at the bottom.
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An action
shot of the brown coat.
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Quarters are embedded in the chimney cap.
I promise this chimney
won't leak.
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The finished wall was
painted 30 days later with elastomeric paint.
The EIFS quoins were taped
off and left alone.
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Toll Brothers replaced the
EIFS on over 140 houses
in northern Virginia with one-coat "stucco" and
a synthetic finish, after a long winded lawsuit.
Toll Brothers lost the lawsuit on the
grounds of
fraud, (a criminal act), claiming their houses
had "stucco details", when in fact they had foam
EIFS details.
What did they put back on ? MORE EIFS
details.
Toll Brothers circulated this
letter to home buyers
that these houses were real stucco, but in fact were
the next generation of fake stucco with EIFS details.
Where was the Washington Post ? Why didn't
the nation's muckraking news source report any of this ?
Toll Brothers is a big advertiser.
An executive with the Washington Post told me
this. I can prove it if I have to.
Sadly enough, the Washington Post sold
out the consumer again.
If you want the truth, ask me.
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