stucco expansion joint on a block or brick retaining wall
Hi guys, this video explains how to tie in an old Terra-cotta retainer wall to an existing stucco home, while also integrating an expansion joint to minimize the cracking in the future.
Will installing an expansion screed where the home meets a separate rationing or garden wall create an area that will not crack? Doubtful.
But it’s the best that can be performed in order to minimize movement cracking between the two as the owner wished no gap.
Another or a better way is to allow a inch gap between the two structures.
Oops, we didn’t input the actual stucco application, dang!
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stucco expansion joint on a block or brick retaining wall,
Install a stucco expansion joint on a block or brick retaining wall
@EdgarVonHelsing
That's your question?
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Hi Kirk – I am stuccoing a newly built CMU block retaining wall that has three sections that are 18 inches high by 30 feet long. Do I need expansion joints in the segments? I prefer an unbroken look. Does the 7" top and back wall need an expansion joint also.
@Keith Granger Evening Keith, man, you are really doing your research. Cinder block or brick walls do not move like wood walls when the sun bakes them.Wood walls all have a tendency to expand when the sun at it's hottest say 100 degrees for 5 hours in one wall area will heat the stucco to 130 degrees or more, this will cause the wood such as studs and plywood to swell like "a ball park frank," which in turns cracks stucco. You can have a cinder block wall in the desert and will be unaffected by this condition. so expansion joints are a waist of time.I have never installed them to cinderblocks myself. You can go online and find contradictions until your head spins as everyone has an opinion.https://youtu.be/TuwvarKFpko Best wishes, kirk giordano plastering