I am new the forum and am building my own house. I am preping a rim joist to install a thin stone veneer. The rim joist is about 10 wide and sits on a pressure treated 2x6. I have installed a L flashing 6x2" near the bottom of the rim joist. The bottom of the flashing comes out about 2" below the mud sill, with the foundation behind it. Next I applied 2 layers of 60 min. paper and the a rain screen drainage plane. I bought some ribbed expanded metal lath that has ribs every 6". If I run the ribs horizontally with the cups up the way I'm suppose to, all if the fasteners in the bottom V will be very near the bottom of the flashing and will have to go into the concrete. I started to cut the lath into 14" lengths so that the ribs would be vertical but at least I could get all of the screws into the wood. The I remembered that the cups are suppose to be up. My question is how much will I compromise the system by running the lathe vertically - remembering that it has to support the plaster as well as the weight of the thin stone veneer?
How bad will it be if I run expanded metal lathe vertically
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It should be just as strong but applying the plaster/render it wont hold as better on application but not really a problem. Have you considered wallcrete instead of the stone veneer it could work out a lot cheaper and quicker, if you havent already forked out for the gear? Do a search on here for wallcrete and welcome to the forum.
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why dont you not bother with the mesh and do a thincoat system on q tech aqua boards over your framing a lot lighter and quicker and cheaper
warriorupnorth
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Sounds as though he's in the States, as Andy has pointed out
Thanks to all for the input. I am in Calif. near Sacramento. I think at this point am a little to far into the project to change my process. I have spent hours working my local building officials to come up with a flashing and lath detail that they would sign-off on. The L flashing is already installed and was custom bent so that the drip edge would come out flush with the finish face of the thin stone veneer. Maybe if I had come here earlier I could have come up with some better solutions but at this point I need to keep going down the road I'm on.
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