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Llt'S News Articles httpi /www.eifsinfo.net/eifs- news.htm intrusion damage. •"Of the nearly 120 homes barrier synthetic stucco homes I've inspected, approximately 60% have tested positive for high levels of water intrusion, several already to the point of having serious structural damage," Bilbrey said. "Every barrier EIFS home in Nashville is susceptible to the kind of moisture damage I have been seeing over the past few months." "Because of the problems I've seen with barrier systems, we only use water - managed systems for new construction," said Nashville builder Stan Pope, president of Pope Properties. "I've personally seen the damage and destruction of barrier homes first hand and will not go that route again." Glen Cruzen, president of Nashville -based Master Stucco, an application and repair services company, also has seen the damages associated with barrier EIFS. Cruzen no longer will work on barrier systems without legal documentation that waives his liability for barrier systems he installs. "I have done enough barrier applications in the past to get a good understanding of the disproportionate numbers of these systems that are failing," Cruzen stated. Likewise, in New Orleans, William Locke, of Wet Check, a local home inspection service, recently told a reporter from WDSU -TV News (the New Orleans NBC affiliate) that the majority of barrier EIFS homes he's inspected have some degree of moisture damage. "I have a couple hundred inspections under my belt and I'm still surprised everyday at what I'm finding," Locke stated. "Probably between 80 and 90 percent of the homes I test have water somewhere that needs to be addressed." • In Greensboro, homeowners are tearing off old barrier EIFS exteriors and replacing them with water - managed stucco -look systems so quickly that local exteriors contracting company, Future Plastering, Inc., is working overtime to keep up with demand. "Tearing off damaged barrier EIFS and replacing it with USG's water - managed systems has become our primary source of business," explained Russ Minkovich, president of Future Plastering. "We've torn off old systems and installed new water - managed exteriors on 24 homes over the past 1 to 1 -1/2 years. The amount of damage on some of those homes was incredible." Minkovich adds that his company is booked in advance throughout 1998 on tear-off projects in and around Greensboro. (For more information on the Greensboro barrier EIFS situation, go to Russ T\iinkovich's EIFS Interview.) Barrier EIFS damage is not confined to residential construction. Jerome P. O'Connor, P.E., C.S.I., principal of Building Consultants Ltd., in Arlington Heights, Ill. is currently working on a 900 -room hotel in San Francisco with millions of dollars in extensive water damage inside the walls of at least 200 rooms. The damage is due to failed joint sealants and other faults in the system's installation. "There is so much water in the walls that the face paper on the gypsum board sheathing is coming off. Nothing is holding the EIFS on," O'Connor stated. • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS 5of10 1/9/2001 9:42 PM