Stucco & Exterior Repair in Mar Vista
Mar Vista stucco and exterior repair for postwar and post-and-beam homes: beam ends, glass walls and older additions sealed and refinished.
Mar Vista has many postwar houses, some of them post-and-beam designs where exposed beams pass through stucco walls and run out to the eaves. Those beam ends and the joints around large glass panels are where water gets in. Older additions add their own seams. We repair stucco around these details carefully, keeping the clean lines that make these houses worth owning.
Beams through the wall
Where a beam passes from inside to outside, the stucco has to seal around it, and wood moves with every change in moisture. Gaps open, water follows the beam into the wall and the beam end rots. We cut back the stucco around affected beams, repair or splice the wood with an engineer's guidance where needed, flash the penetration and rebuild the plaster with a sealant joint designed to move. Exposed beam ends get a cap or end-grain sealer to slow future decay.
Glass walls and old additions
Floor-to-ceiling glass set directly into stucco openings often lacks a sill pan, and stains on the floor inside are the usual clue. We correct the sill detail and rebuild the plaster around the frame. Additions built later often meet the original house at a straight crack running up the wall. We open that seam, check how the two structures were tied together, install flashing and a control joint, and refinish so the crack has a planned place to move. Interior stains are repaired last.
Stucco & Exterior in Mar Vista: questions
Not where a beam passes through the wall or an addition meets the original house, since movement there reopens any patch. On plain wall areas away from those details, a well-matched patch over a dry wall is often enough.
The count of beam penetrations, any wood repair at beam ends, sill corrections at glass walls, seams at additions and the stucco area set the total. Every type of repair is priced apart in writing.
Yes. We probe beam ends, measure moisture around glass and at addition seams and cut a small inspection opening when the meter says so. Hidden rot at beams is common enough that skipping this step leads to a wrong price.
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