Dear Pat: I am looking at houses to buy. I found one I like, but it has the synthetic stucco finish I heard is bad. What are the problems with this finish, and can it be removed and finished with real ...

Question: We just found a house to buy, but it has a synthetic stucco exterior. What are some of the typical problems with this and can we strip it off an apply real stucco? Answer: There have been ...

Q: We have a synthetic-stucco house. We have it inspected annually and maintain it well. Yet we know the stigma surrounding synthetic-stucco homes. We were just told that it would cost about $140,000 ...

Dear Pat: I am looking at houses to buy. I found one I like, but it has the synthetic stucco finish I heard is bad. What are the problems with this finish, and can it be removed and finished with real ...

My longtime friend and pharmacist had a scare at his 15-year-old home not too long ago: After he noticed water leaking inside during a driving rainstorm, he discovered wet spots on the interior walls, ...

Q. I own a 6-year-old home covered with EIFS synthetic stucco. Even though I have the home inspected each year for moisture intrusion, I plan on replacing the EIFS with a mixture of real cement stucco ...

Buying a stucco home? Heads up. It's no secret that stucco homes have had a ton of water problems during the last few decades. This all started here in Minnesota at the end of the 1980s, but it's not ...

The nation’s leading home building trade group has “cautioned” its members over the use of Eifs, the synthetic stucco material that has been blamed for extensive structural damage to houses, primarily ...

A Fairfax County jury has awarded more than $1 million to a couple whose house was covered with synthetic stucco, a substance that allowed water to seep into the frame and damage the home -- the ...

A fresh coat of paint can usually be counted on to brighten up a home exterior. But if it doesn't - even after a large expenditure of time and money - the reason might be that your house is stucco, ...

Steve Keller of Baltimore sent a note about his 70-year-old stucco house where plaster on one of the interior walls has developed some minor water damage. A roofer determined that the source of the ...