Stucco & Exterior Repair in Pacoima
Pacoima stucco repair for postwar homes: converted garages, added rooms and cracked, faded walls brought back to one sound, even finish.
Many Pacoima houses have been extended or converted over the years to make room for more people, and their stucco tells that story: a filled-in garage door here, a room added there, and patches that never quite matched. Valley sun has bleached each patch to its own shade. We rebuild the cracking seams, repair the corners and finish the house in one consistent color.
Patches that keep cracking
A patch that was troweled straight over old plaster, without new paper behind it or mesh across the edge, usually cracks around its outline within a couple of winters. On converted garages, the old door shape often reappears as a rectangle of cracks. We cut those outlines back to sound plaster, fasten the infill framing to the original, lap fresh paper under the old and set mesh across the joint before rebuilding the plaster. A repair done in that order flexes with the wall and stays closed through the seasons.
A house in one color
Once the seams and corners are sound, the walls get a color coat or a flexible elastomeric finish across every side. That seals the hairline cracks that cover most older stucco and brings the patchwork of shades back to one. Patched areas are primed first so they do not show through. We brush color samples on the wall so you can judge them in strong sun, since a shade that looks right on a card can read much darker on a hot afternoon.
Stucco & Exterior in Pacoima: questions
Where the crack follows the outline of an old garage door or a moved window, a patch will crack again, because the seam behind it is the problem. Hairlines across a dry wall do better under a full color coat once the seams are fixed.
How many feet of seam need rebuilding, how many corners, the wall area for the color coat and the type of finish set the price. We list seam repair apart from the recoat, so you can see each cost on its own.
At seams and below stained areas, yes, with a moisture meter and a small cut if the readings climb. Many valley walls turn out dry inside, and knowing that keeps the repair at the surface where it belongs.
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