Installing stucco weep or drip screed

Installing stucco weep or drip screeds.
What is a stucco weep screed?
Below are more videos on installing Stucco Drip Screeds?
Is a weep or drip stucco screed the same thing? Yes.
With lathing, the first thing to do is to install your stucco screeds, then paper and wire.

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FYI, don't worry if your home does not have a weep or drip screed, it's as normal as white on rice. My own home didn't have a weep screed either. Back in 1980, weep or drip screeds became code. Thus, most homes before this date don't have them.
As they weren't invented yet.
The stucco may get a crack where the stucco meets the foundation; this may be an eyesore, but this rarely causes any significant damage.

How to Install Stucco Weep or Drip Screeds, metal weep screeds, and their real purpose.
Does anyone realize the importance of why these screeds are placed at least one inch below the mud sill? If you have wood siding, it’s the same principle.
Why? Excellent question; glad you asked.
Let’s say most rain falls vertically.
As a rule, the higher the elevations come with it, the more wind.

The substrate also gets wet with wood and can rot, attracting termites and mold fungus. Mold is no joke.
Weep or drip screed rusting?

This is a key reason why the Goldengate Bridge in San Francisco seems to always be in the phase of being painted.
Salt rusts metal very quickly.

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