Is it lath?

[ICE]

I am not sure this is an approved lath. It is light gage with 1" openings as opposed to thicker wire with 1 1/2" openings. So there is more or less wire. It looks like it would be used on a hampster cage but not lath. Home Depot sells it as lath and the contractor claims there is an ES#. This is over plywood and as you can see {unless you are a guest. Yes I am an :butt Come back in a week and you'll be able to see it} the lath is furred at the studs and stapled tight in the middle. Other than that, he did a swell job.

 

[pete_t]

Paper OK if two layers

Wire opening OK see section 3.5;

www.icc-es.org/reports/pdf_files/ICC-ES/ESR-2267.pdf

Staples not OK

Wire size unknown.

 

[SCBO1]

At first I thought it was poultry netting, thanks pete_t for the es report comfirming it appears to be an actual stucco netting (lath).

Please keep it on the west coast!

pc1

 

[Kevin Turner]

Lath for 3 coat stucco application. I have personally seen it since the 70s.

 

[steveray]

Looks like chicken wire to me......good thing we don't get much of that here....

 

[righter101]

I think its ok if you use broken pieces of shoelace to hold them together.

 

[GCtony]

Wow, I haven't seen that stuff around since the 80's. I agree with kevin, I think it was used with the thick three coat systems. Not sure how it would work with one brown, one finish like most folks use today.

 

[ICE]

It's fixed.

 

[SCBO1]

I don't think a hampster can get through it now!

Does it meet the ES report for installation now? Looked better in the first photo!

pc1

 

[GCtony]

Ice, I don't get it, What makes the second picture "fixed?"

 

[stuccoman]

2 layers?

Makes it fixed?

 

[ICE]

2 layers?Makes it fixed?

My op was wrong in that the staples are at the studs and the furring nails are in the middle. In as much as I questioned the wire as being lath and the fact that there was little if any furring, I went along with another layer of wire furred and attached at the studs. Upon inspection I noted that the new lath had furring nails at the studs but they were too far apart so I required more nails and approved the work.