As would the way I described, so I don't see what the problem is.
Not sure you're on the same page, see below.


You actually have builders in your area who schedule critical path? Wow!

What, you think FLA is the only place in America where people do critical thinking?

The builders I've seen (most of them who used the foam trim) would stucco first (much more cost effective to stucco without all those interruptions in the stucco surface, then, when the stucco is still wet, set the foam trim, or, add the foam trim after the scratch coat, setting it in stucco.

huh? Set foam projections in wet stucco?? You're delusional! Doesn't happen here or anywhere else I've seen a house built. The stucco applied over the projections is the SAME mix as the base coat. I believe you may be confusing EIFS projections with stucco, which are sometimes applied on top of the base coat. Stucco projections never are.

Why do it that way? Because there is stucco and there is decorative cementitious coatings. The walls get "stucco", the foam trim gets the "decorative cementitious coating. Two different things, done at two different times, using two different mixtures/products.

Again, wrong application.

Nonetheless, the HI needs to advise their client that, *just because EVERYONE speeds* does not make it right, there are limits and requirements for reasons, and the reason a weep is REQUIRED there is to help drain the water out, to reduce the likelihood that the framing and/or sheathing will rot out.

Agreed.