Stucco & Exterior Repair in Van Nuys
Van Nuys stucco repair for postwar houses and garage conversions: seams, old window openings and sun-faded walls repaired and recoated evenly.
Van Nuys postwar houses often have stucco that has been cut and patched many times: for new windows, for garage conversions and for additions out back. Under hot valley sun, those patches crack along their edges and fade at different rates. We rebuild the seams that are failing, repair the old openings properly and recoat the house so the walls read as one surface again.
Garage conversions and seams
When a garage door opening is filled in to make a room, the new wall section is a seam waiting to crack. If the infill framing is not tied to the old, or the paper is not lapped, a crack outlines the old door within a few years. We cut back along the outline, tie the framing together, lap new paper under the old and bridge the joint with metal lath before rebuilding the plaster. The same approach fixes cracks around windows that were resized or moved during earlier remodels.
Faded, uneven walls
Patches added over the decades rarely match in color or texture, and the sun fades each one differently. Once the seams are repaired, a full recoat gives the house one color and seals hairline cracks. Patched spots are primed first to keep them from ghosting, then coat each side of the house without stopping partway. Owners pick from a traditional cement color coat or a more flexible elastomeric finish, and we explain how each handles the heat on these walls.
Stucco & Exterior in Van Nuys: questions
A patch over a seam from a converted garage or a moved window tends to crack along the same outline. Those seams need the framing tied and the paper lapped first. For random hairlines, a recoat after a few repairs usually serves better than patching.
The length of seams to rebuild, the number of openings, the wall area for a recoat and the finish chosen drive the total. Repairs and the recoat appear as separate prices so they can be scheduled together or apart.
Along seams and at old openings, yes, with a meter and sometimes a small cut. Valley walls are often dry inside, and confirming that keeps the quote to surface repair when that is all the wall needs.
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