Stucco & Exterior Repair in Studio City
Studio City stucco and exterior repair for bungalows and hillside homes: deck connections, slope-side walls and older plaster repaired and refinished.
Studio City has compact bungalows near the boulevard and hillside homes above, many with decks hung off the downhill side. Older plaster on the bungalows shows decades of patches, while hillside walls take water from the slope and from decks bolted to them. We repair both, with special attention to the joint where a deck meets a stucco wall, which causes more hidden damage here than any crack.
Decks against the wall
A deck ledger fastened through the stucco with no flashing sends rain and irrigation water straight behind the plaster. The wall below stains, and the rim joist inside softens. We remove a band of stucco above and below the ledger, check and repair the framing, install a membrane and metal flashing behind the ledger and rebuild the plaster to lap over it. If the deck itself is due for work, we coordinate both jobs so the wall is opened only once.
Bungalow plaster
Older bungalows often carry thin plaster over wire or wood lath, with patches from window changes and past repairs in different textures. Where the plaster sounds hollow, the lath behind it has usually let go. Loose sections come off back to firm plaster, and each is built up again coat by coat with its texture worked into the original. A color coat over the whole wall evens out the patches. The result reads as one consistent surface from the street, which matters on these small, close-set lots.
Stucco & Exterior in Studio City: questions
On bungalow walls with sound plaster, yes. Under a deck ledger, or anywhere the plaster sounds hollow, it is not. Those areas need the ledger flashed or the lath rebuilt, and patching first only hides the damage until the next storm.
Deck ledger work, hollow areas to rebuild, wall area for a color coat and access on hillside lots decide the price. A site visit lets us price each piece separately and show which ones can wait.
Yes, especially under deck ledgers, where we open the wall to see the rim joist. On bungalows we tap for hollow areas. The quote then covers what is actually there, with any framing repair named in it.
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