Case 5
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Good Practices
It is recommended to provide sufficient number of expansion joints to the wall to avoid vertical cracking at corners and stair-step-type cracking emanating from the upper corner of the window.
Another elementary strategy is to provide a drip mechanism at the underside of all exposed horizontal surfaces to resist the travelling of water drop along the soffit lines due to the surface tension.