Hello stucco experts.
In the photo you can see a texture/color coat that was applied on top of weld crete glue. It is severely checked/cracked like alligator skin and the glue is visible in the cracks.
Contractor wants to fix it by fog coating. Realistically, how thick is the fog coat?
What is the correct fix?
Thank you 🙏
Hello everyone.
I need some stucco advice and would really appreciate any guidance for this project:
This house has old stucco, with latex that was scraped to remove loose crumbling texture. Larsen weld crete was applied very thick, then a color texture coat on top.
The texture is crazing everywhere into alligator skin with the blue weld crete visible in the cracks.
Contractor finished this work today and wants to fog coat it next week.
What should I really do? One option is Tex-cote coolwall coating, which might be ok since the texture is adhered… I do not really know what to do, but the goal is to have it be weatherproof and long lasting.
What’s the best thing? What are acceptable options?
I just noticed this crack in the stucco on a bump-out over my garage. There are other much more minor cracks on the bump-out that look like they have had cosmetic repair in the past. Should I keep my eye on it before deciding how to proceed? Any guesstimate on what it will take to fix it ($)?
NE Florida, home is ~14 years old, I have owned for a few years.
Everything is wet because it rained and I just rinsed the dirt off on the trim below the bump-out. Which is when I noticed the crack. Surprising because I am normally very observant. And I was careful not to spray water at the crack, the drops near it were from splatter. I am aware moisture in there is bad.
Thanks for any advice. This is my first stucco house and I’ve never had to deal with stucco repairs before.
Went thru inspection for house I will possibly purchase. Crack along side the lower outer wall approx 15 feet horizontal and wraps around a corner approx 5 feet. The wall in the picture shown flexes in when pushed on as well as the same for the wall on the inside. I’ll be happily using my inspection contingency to back out I but curious what your thoughts are on damage and repairs
Planning on doing some beautification work around this balcony that'll include some decorative features and column work. My question is can I put a stucco/foam trim at the edge of the balcony? There's flashing there, so I'm not sure what's typically done.
Thanks!
Want to install these decorative shutters on either side of the window. Don’t have brackets and don’t need them operable so I’m thinking merely screw them onto the stucco permanently fixed. House is 100+ years old, not sure how old stucco is.
I’m pretty handy but never worked with stucco before. Is it as simple as masonry bit/anchor/screw? Or something else I should do.
Thanks
For me, it's when homeowners think every crack means there's major structural damage. Most of the time, after taking a closer look, it's something much less serious.
I probably spend just as much time explaining what's normal and what actually needs attention as I do making the repairs.
Curious what misconceptions you guys run into the most.
Hi, We are doing Acrylic Stucco. We have completed scratch, brown about 7 months ago. Due to some delays we couldn't do the finish coat. Our plan is to do medium and then smooth acrylic finish on top. Is it okay for stucco to be in sun for 7 months without finish coat? We do have some hair line cracks and few credit card thickness size cracks.
Is there some thing we have to do before we apply finish coats?
Any one has past experience and advice? Thank you.
Hello everyone. Have a home in Southern California that has vinyl windows that are mounted flush with the exterior stucco. We would like to add some moudling to the exterior around the windows to paint the same color as the trim for the rest of the home. Looking for some insight into the best way to achieve this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Can post some photos if needed.
I mightve made a mistake and caulked too much. I used Quikrete 10 oz. Stucco Repair Sealant to fix some hairline cracks on my Stucco any tips to help hide or paint this away?
Hi - we recently just had our windows done. No complaints about the window work. However, we are at a disagreement with our windows guy who subbed out stucco work. We are generally unhappy with the stucco guys as they were very careless (killed our plants, left plastic bottle trash around etc)
And we are unhappy about the stucco texture. The rough surface around the windows is new and it looks amateurish next to the old stucco. The windows guy says that look is to be expected
Are we expecting too much ?
I just had my meeting with the stucco guy. He was going to charge me $300 to repair and paint like 10 stucco areas. He has a minimum requirement of $500 per job. I told him that I'm going to pay him $500 because he lives in my neighborhood.
We had our house insulated and yesterday we took our first stab at finish coat and texture and it went pretty well!!
It turned out so well we are interested in trying to restore the color to some of the faded areas where the base coat is showing (like on the second story). We've tried cleaning the area and did confirm it isn't dirt. Under close inspection it looks like the finish layer has flaked off and the base stucco is showing.
Is there a way to apply a thin top layer of finish coat without having to re-do the texture? Can you paint or roll on a very thin mixture of finish stucco?
Thank you for advice!
The only thing left to do is the color according to the vendor. He came to look at it today and he said it's fine. He said they cut the bits of fiberglass off which does not make any sense to me. He also randomly decided to change the arch in my porch ceiling without asking me and now it looks horrible. I'd very much appreciate some feedback. Thank you. PS I just noticed looking through some of the posts here that they didn't do a weep screed. That's going to be a huge problem I think.