This window was installed by the previous owner, and obviously done wrong. Not much water-proofing to speak of. Anyway, the bathroom inside has a skylight, so I've decided to ditch the window altogether (complete remodel in progress). What are my options in terms of patching this wall up? It's the very back of the house and no one's ever going to see it, so aesthetics is not important.

I was thinking of just doing plywood siding, but I'm not clear on how to deal with where it meets the stucco. Maybe just slide some metal flashing under the stucco a few inches and over the plywood?

Should I bite the bullet and re-stucco it? There is very little room back there, so this would be a huge pain.

Any help/suggestions is appreciated.

This window was installed by the previous owner, and obviously done wrong. Not much water-proofing to speak of. Anyway, the bathroom inside has a skylight, so I've decided to ditch the window altogether (complete remodel in progress). What are my options in terms of patching this wall up? It's the very back of the house and no one's ever going to see it, so aesthetics is not important.

I was thinking of just doing plywood siding, but I'm not clear on how to deal with where it meets the stucco. Maybe just slide some metal flashing under the stucco a few inches and over the plywood?

Should I bite the bullet and re-stucco it? There is very little room back there, so this would be a huge pain.

Any help/suggestions is appreciated.
Looks like I stumped the crowd with this one!

I've decided on the following solution:

• plywood all open areas
• roofing paper over that and tucked under stucco
• flashing run under the stucco and folded over the plywood/roofing paper
• Hardipanel siding over that butted up against stucco
• some kind of caulk in the seams

Not the prettiest solution, but it's a hidden area that no one will see, and re-doing the stucco back there would be a nightmare. There is literally no more than 12 inches clearance back there. Anyone see any fatal flaws with this plan or have a better one?

We have a couple windows that we want to close up... the bids are coming in too high so we want to do it ourselves... can you give me more details about the products & techniques you used and how it's doing now? Thanks!

Sacramento, I see you are new to the desk. Did you notice that elskeptico wrote two post 8 months ago and has never been back? He probably is long gone.