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From Your Architectural Liaison By Diane Botica SRCA Architectural Liaison
Is it time to paint my house? When you’re living in a desert climate, your home’s exterior may need repainting more often than you think. Even though repainting can be a fairly costly investment, repainting every five or six years is less expensive than doing major repairs on the exterior stucco walls of your home. Here are some warning signs to protect your home. 1. Run a dark towel over the stucco on the south and west sides of your home. If chalky paint comes off on the towel, it’s a sign that you should repaint soon. 2. Check for cracks in your stucco around windows and along your foundation. Before repainting, your painter will need to fill any cracks with an elastomeric compound. In the future, that compound will move with cracks and will help prevent water from seeping through the walls. 3. Look for bare concrete or peeling paint around the foundation as well. 4. Check your wood trim (if you have wood trim) under your roof eaves for peeling. 5. If you have a patio ceiling covered in drywall as many homes do, look for tape seams coming loose, texture crumbling or cracks appearing in the ceiling. 6. Since you’re going to repaint, it would be advantageous to check for problem areas on your outdoor fence walls. If they are covered with stucco, they probably need fresh paint. If the paint on the walls is peeling or bubbling up in some areas, you want to have the stucco repaired. Cracks will need to be filled as well, just as you’re going to do on the walls of the house. Drop Box If you are someone who does not live in the digital age, do not fret. We have you covered! We have installed a drop box next to the bulletin board near our front door. This drop box is accessible 24 hours a day. Feel free to drop your architectural submittals correspondence for staff.
As of the Printing of this Magazine, the SRCA Administration Office is Open to Homeowners by Appointment Only While AZ is at the moderate stage of the pandemic, we would encourage you, when you can, to continue to use email and phone to communicate with us. Please call the main office number at (480) 860-2022 to schedule an appointment. Please note that we will have strict guidelines for those residents who must be in the office for those appointments. Expectations of homeowner/residents making in-office appointments with a staff member: • Face masks must be worn by employee and homeowner/resident at all times during the appointment. • Appointment to take place in the conference room. • Prior to confirming an appointment, we will ask the following questions: o Have you traveled out of the state or country in the last 30 days? o Do you or anyone who you reside with have any symptoms of COVID-19? o Has anyone you have come in contact with in the last 30 days been diagnosed with COVID-19? Office staff will continue to work their regular schedules either from the office or remotely from home and are available via email or phone during normal business hours. We will continue to stagger the number of staff members in the office at any one time. If you need to send us something, please do so by email or US mail. We also have a permanent drop box which is on the wall by the bulletin board outside of the front office doors. If you have an item that is too large to fit into the drop box, please reach out to the office staff to make arrangements to drop the item(s) off at the SRCA office. The Community Center is available on a limited basis for board and committee meetings of no more than 30 people. All clubs, groups and events are tentative.
ATTENTION!! The use of SRCA facilities and amenities are voluntary and at your own risk. Scottsdale Ranch Community Association cannot ensure that all areas are free of COVID–19 or other pathogens. The Association is not the guarantor of your personal safety. For up-to-date information on the office and amenities, please visit our website at www.scottsdaleranch.org or sign up to receive our weekly email blasts.
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