Everything Stucco

Sometimes architecture calls for variations in the finish of steel troweled stucco . There is “ hump and bump ”, “ cat-faces ” and differi...

The new Title 24 rules for higher energy efficiency in homes and buildings will have builders scrambling to find cost effective means of rea...

A few years ago we heard of “Feng Shui”. This is the eastern philosophy that things must be aligned in a certain manner to be pleasing and c...

Plaster and stucco are porous materials and therefore susceptible to staining. Stains come from anything that can leach into the plaster thr...

The two types of stucco cracks are structural and shrinkage. The structural are the ones we see most because they are large and very common....

This is the second rainiest December in recorded history in Southern California. For those of us in the stucco business lots of rain can onl...

Having been in the construction industry for over thirty years and at Merlex for close to eighteen I am usually asked the same questions o...