Well, since it's been just over one year, it seems fitting that I should return to the scene of the crime - my blog about the house. I'm going to post a few blogs over the coming weeks to update people on the progress from the past year. I'll try to break it into some blocks that chronicle some of the progress over the late summer, early fall, winter, spring, summer...to today (and the ongoing work that still needs to be done).
Why did my blog come to a crashing halt you ask? Well, life got in the way. A 6 week old baby, an epic road trip with a six week old baby to Edmonton, travels to Sweden, Dubai, Belgium, China, the States, India, China, the States a couple of more time, Ontario, etc., etc. etc. simply meant that I ran out of energy and time. Moreover, I ran out of emotional energy sometime late summer and my hands were kind of mangled from gravel shifting (still not normal a year later).
All that said, the house has indeed come along and I write this sitting inside the place (we moved in in January).
So - over the coming weeks I'll post a few updates of late summer, fall, winter/move-in, spring and now to bring people up to speed on the pain and pleasure of the past year.
For now - here's a shot of my son one year on! How life changes in a year!
Why did my blog come to a crashing halt you ask? Well, life got in the way. A 6 week old baby, an epic road trip with a six week old baby to Edmonton, travels to Sweden, Dubai, Belgium, China, the States, India, China, the States a couple of more time, Ontario, etc., etc. etc. simply meant that I ran out of energy and time. Moreover, I ran out of emotional energy sometime late summer and my hands were kind of mangled from gravel shifting (still not normal a year later).
All that said, the house has indeed come along and I write this sitting inside the place (we moved in in January).
So - over the coming weeks I'll post a few updates of late summer, fall, winter/move-in, spring and now to bring people up to speed on the pain and pleasure of the past year.
For now - here's a shot of my son one year on! How life changes in a year!
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about using comfortboard on my external wall as well and I was wondering if you could explain a little more about your wall setup. From your post in 2012 it appears that you added something on top of the comfortboard and then stucco'd that? Could you have stucco'd right on the comfortboard? Do you have any pictures of a partially done wall section?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteSo wall setup was as follows from inboard to exterior:
Drywall
Poly
6-8" blown cellulose b/w studs
Plywood
Tyvek
2" Comfortboard
1" furring strips to create 3/4" rainscreen
Lath
Stucco
The furring strips were drilled into the studs to give the stucco additional hanging strength. Yes, you could attach the lath & stucco directly to the comfortboard, but given the rain here on the west coast, a rainscreen to allow internal wicking of moisture in the assembly makes sense and is a prudent idea to avoid the "leaky condo" syndrome that's afflicted much of BC's lower mainland.
So far, so good - stucco has been fine. I was concerned about going to 3" due to shear, but think it would probably be fine (my personal opnion, backed by a bit of research from Dr. John Straube from Waterloo) and the more the better...but much depends on where you're building (in North America).
Yes, have a bunch of pictures of the assembly which I'll email to you if you'd like. Just send me your email address.
Regards and good luck!
Alexis