I have a neighbor who is in a house less than a year old.
The house is white stucco. I walked by yesterday and there are HUGE, BLACK cracks all over the entire stucco area.
You can see the cracks from 300 feet away.
Alot of tehse houses that were thrown up in hte past 5 years will not be there in 20.
Warranty and a lawyer time!
The company relocating him refuses to buy any stone-veneer or stucco houses, so before he moved he had to redo the siding.
Turned out that it was not sealed properly at the top part, near the roof, and water had been coming in behind the stucco, hitting the masonite that sheathes the house, gathering there and rotting away the wood behind the drywall.
Only cracks visible from 1000 yards are against code and need to be fixed.