Insulating your home with EIFS is a huge investment in not only the comfort of your home, but the value of it. The comfort of not having drafty rooms that you or your children have to sleep in can’t be measured in dollars. In measurable terms of value however, the insulation that is added reduces [...]
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Increase EIFS Durability with High Impact Mesh
Posted by Admin on May 11, 2012
http://torontostuccocontractor.com/blog/2012/05/increase-eifs-durability-with-high-impact-mesh/
Brick Falling Apart? Renew Your Home With EIFS
Toronto and it’s surrounding area has a large number of brick homes that are reaching the end of their life cycle. While brick is a great siding material by most standards, it tends to fundamentally lack in two primary aspects: design flexibility and insulating ability. As brick-clad homes in Toronto reach their 50-70 year mark [...]
Posted by Admin on March 1, 2012
http://torontostuccocontractor.com/blog/2012/03/brick-falling-apart-renew-your-home-with-eifs/
Stucco Home Insurance: How Does EIFS Affect Insurance
Stucco (or more accurately, EIFS) is enormously popular on homes in and around the Greater Toronto area due in large part to it’s great aesthetic appeal and it’s ability to insulate, thereby reducing heating and cooling bills. It’s become a “hot topic” (pun intended) for insurance companies – moreso in the U.S. than Canada – [...]
Posted by Admin on December 14, 2011
http://torontostuccocontractor.com/blog/2011/12/stucco-home-insurance-how-does-eifs-affect-insurance/
Toronto Sun Article: Toronto Housing Stock
I was wondering where I could find this sort of information the other day. Excuse the bad picture. Transcript below. Homes in Toronto are aging. That typically means they need repairs or full retrofits depending on the original quality of the construction. Even homes with ultra-durable brick cladding are beginning to see the wear-and-tear of [...]
Posted by Admin on July 20, 2011
http://torontostuccocontractor.com/blog/2011/07/toronto-sun-article-toronto-housing-stock/
Supplies Required for EIFS / Stucco Installations
All of this equipment and supplies would be familiar to an Exterior Insulation Finish Systems contractor, however a home owner looking to do their own shed or garage might not realize they need many of the tools required. While we do not recommend EIFS as a DIY project, we would still like to be a [...]
Posted by Admin on April 16, 2011
http://torontostuccocontractor.com/blog/2011/04/toronto-stucco-supplies/
What is Stucco?
"Stucco" is typically what people in the Toronto area use when they're looking for EIFS (Exterior Insulation Finish Systems, or "synthetic stucco"). We use the two terms interchangeably.
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