Stucco repair that fixes the cause.
Cracks, spalling and water-stained walls across Southwest Florida. We find out what put the water there before we patch anything, then match the texture so the repair disappears.
Patch it properly or refinish the wall.
Stucco Repair
- Cracks cut out and filled properly
- Spalled and hollow areas cut back
- Texture matched to the surrounding wall
- Water source dealt with first
Stucco Resurfacing
- Whole elevations brought back to one finish
- Patchwork history evened out
- Consistent texture across the wall
- Sound base coat verified first
Not all cracks mean the same thing
Stucco is a cement product on a moving building in a climate that swings between baking and soaking. Some cracking is simply what the material does. Fine hairline crazing spread evenly across an elevation is usually cosmetic and can be filled and refinished.
Other patterns are telling you something. Cracks running diagonally from window and door corners, a crack that reopens in the same line after being patched, stair-stepping along block joints, or a wall that sounds hollow when you tap it are all worth understanding before anybody mixes material.
The honest version of this trade is diagnosis first. Filling a crack that is moving just gives you a filled crack that opens again next season, and you have paid for the privilege.
- Even hairline crazing: usually cosmetic
- Diagonal cracks from openings: worth investigating
- Hollow-sounding areas: bond failure, needs cutting out
- Recurring cracks in one line: movement, not surface damage
Where the water is coming from
Most of the stucco damage we look at has a drainage explanation. A missing or overflowing gutter sheets roof water down one section of wall every time it rains. A downspout discharges at the base and splashes the bottom two feet a thousand times a season. A blocked scupper backs up behind a parapet.
Water gets into a crack, sits in the wall, and then either freezes nowhere in Florida but does something almost as damaging: it corrodes the lath or the fasteners behind the render, and the expansion of that corrosion pushes the stucco off the wall. That is what spalling is, and it is why the repair has to go past the surface.
We are a gutter company by trade, which makes this the part we are actually best placed to solve. We can see the water path and fix it in the same visit, rather than patching a symptom that will reappear.
Matching what is already there
A stucco repair is judged on whether you can see it from the driveway. Southwest Florida walls carry a range of finishes, from knockdown and dash to smooth and sand, and each of them takes a different technique to reproduce.
Getting close means matching the texture, working the patch out beyond the damage so the transition is not a visible rectangle, and being realistic about colour. Existing paint has been fading in the sun for years, so a patched area almost always needs the elevation repainted to blend properly, and we would rather tell you that up front than surprise you at the end.
Where a wall has collected years of mismatched patches, resurfacing the whole elevation is usually the better-looking and better-value answer.
- Knockdown, dash, sand and smooth finishes
- Patches feathered out beyond the damage
- Straight talk about repainting to blend
- Full-elevation resurfacing where patching has piled up
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Stucco questions.
It depends on the pattern. Even hairline crazing across an elevation is usually cosmetic. Diagonal cracks from window and door corners, stair-stepping along block joints, hollow-sounding areas or a crack that keeps reopening in the same line are worth investigating before patching.
Because something is still moving or still getting wet. A patch over an active cause is a temporary cosmetic fix. We look for the water path or the movement first, which is why our repairs tend to hold where previous ones did not.
Usually water behind the render. It corrodes the lath and fasteners, and the expansion of that corrosion pushes the stucco off its bond. Areas that sound hollow when tapped are already detached and have to be cut back to sound material.
That is the goal on every repair, and we work the patch out past the damage so there is no visible rectangle. Colour is the harder part, because existing paint has been fading in the sun for years, so blending often means repainting the elevation.
Usually yes, at least across the affected elevation. New material takes paint differently from a wall that has weathered for a decade, and a spot repaint tends to read as a patch even when the texture match is good.
Yes, and that is the part we would insist on. Gutters and drainage are our main trade, so we can correct the water path and repair the wall as one job instead of leaving you to arrange the cause and the symptom separately.
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