Sided House Porch

Construction Sequence? Stucco color first then build porch & steps?

I need to build a little porch with some stairs to exit the side of my house. Right now the exterior stucco is in raw stucco, waiting for the color coat to go on. The little porch will attach to the house with a ledger board and the stairs will run parallel to the wall. The question is whether to wait for the color coat to go on before I build the porch, or go ahead and do it now so I don’t risk cracking the color by drilling and nailing. Thanks!

If you will be doing anything that may crack the “color coat” it will crack the stucco or rough coat as well.
You shouldn’t have any problems attaching the ledger board to a stucco wall by using self tapping lag bolts making sure to dive them into the framing of the wall.

Go ahead and do the color top coat before staring anything else.

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