Stucco & Exterior Repair in San Marino
San Marino plaster restoration for traditional estates: long walls, moldings and steel-window surrounds repaired by hand for the city's review.
San Marino estates have long runs of plaster, carved or cast moldings and steel or wood windows set deep in thick walls. The city's design review watches exterior changes closely. Damage on these houses is often slow and hidden: water entering at a window head or a parapet cap and working down inside the wall. We restore the plaster by hand and correct those entry points as we go.
Restoration at estate scale
On a large house, small faults multiply. A survey comes first: every face of the house photographed, cracks measured, hollow plaster marked by tapping and moisture logged at window heads, sills and parapets. From that we build a repair plan that keeps sound original plaster and replaces only what has failed. Moldings and window surrounds are repaired in place or re-run with a template cut to the original profile. The owner sees the plan and a matched finish sample before any wall is opened.
Deep openings and parapets
Steel windows set in thick plaster walls often have no flashing at the head, and water runs along the lintel into the wall below. Flat-roofed sections hide parapets whose caps have cracked. We correct both: head flashing installed when the surround is rebuilt, and sloped metal or membrane caps on parapets tucked under the plaster. Deep window reveals are refinished to their original crisp edges. Drawings and samples for the city's review accompany the scope so the work can begin as soon as it is approved.
Stucco & Exterior in San Marino: questions
An isolated crack in firm plaster can take a careful patch. Where water has entered at a window head or a parapet, the damage often spreads inside the wall, and the repair needs to start at that entry point. A survey tells us which case each wall falls into.
On an estate, the survey, molding and surround restoration, parapet caps, hand finishing and scaffolding make up the price. We split the job by side of the house so the crews can follow the seasons in the garden.
Yes, through a full survey. Tapping finds hollow plaster, a meter logs moisture at heads, sills and parapets, and discreet cuts confirm what the readings suggest. The written plan is built from those findings, wall by wall.
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