My great grandparents added it to their house in the '50s. What other exterior treatment is maintenance-free for half a century or more?
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My house was built in 1963 but and some point, likely the 1970s, a rock dash finish was added, which was larger white, black and green rocks larger (and safer) than crushed glass.Local historian John Atkin further explained that the application of exterior stucco was also seen as a way to “quickly modernize the house and hide the signs of renovations – especially as steel and aluminum windows were being promoted by the same grant program to replace ‘old-fashioned’ wood windows”. Retrofitting new windows of a different proportion often left homeowners with ugly patches in the siding. Stucco could hide such renovation scars. A house “modernized” with a bottle-dash (or other dash) stucco exterior requires little, if any, maintenance. Stucco exteriors from this period (1930s to 1960s) are very durable, as some current homeowners can attest to as they frustratingly try to remove it during renovations.