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Stucco Repair | San Diego, CA | Stucco & Plastering

Stucco is a multipurpose home finish option that does more than protect the exterior of your home from moisture and other weather-related issues. It adds nice aesthetics to your home and protects your property from fire damage. You also enjoy more privacy and save some costs on renewing exterior finishes frequently.

However, to enjoy the benefits that are attached to using stucco finishing in your home, you need a professional stucco repair or installation service that understands your needs and applies them to the stucco installation that you desire.

We are a professional stucco repair and contractor service in San Diego, and we offer you the best exterior and interior stucco home covering service. Our expertise spans different locations, including San Diego and other parts of California, and we have stood the test of time.
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Reach out to us and get a free quote for your stucco installation and repair needs. Our affordability and quality service will satisfy you.

About Us

Stucco Repair of San Diego is a business that was formed to help building owners add beauty to their properties - residential or commercial - using stucco.

We efficiently provide our services through our team to protect building walls while beautifying the interior and exterior of the same buildings.
We have been in the business of beautifying and protecting walls and buildings for over 30 years, amassing experience from different parts of the world, and bringing it to San Diego.
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We uphold our integrity and let it inform our decision about businesses, helping us to maintain high-quality service delivery to every customer.

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Our services in the San Diego, CA area.

There are many stucco plastering service firms in town but few of them can compare to the quality standards of Stucco Repair of San Diego. We pride ourselves as the quality stucco plaster provider in San Diego.

We are your go-to for stucco service needs, including stucco installation, repairs, remodeling, and replacement. We ensure that the eventual stucco design and color meet your expectations, and you'll be able to use it for a long time.

We understand that the outlook of your home is important to you. We also understand that you'll like to get quality stucco walls at an affordable price. That's why Stucco Repair of San Diego exists.

While it's tempting to reduce stucco repair or installation costs, we give you affordable stucco installation and repair quality with 12-months insurance.
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Our stucco installation, repair, and remodeling services include:

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Residential Stucco

Your home is a reflection of yourself. Therefore, we understand that you want it to look its best. Whether your home had a stucco wall and you want it repaired or remodeled,  you want to install stucco for the first time, you want to remodel an existing stucco wall, or you want to add more stucco to some walls in your home, we're experienced to handle all indoor and outdoor residential stucco needs.

Your home will get a new outlook after we're done, and you can be sure that the stucco won't experience any cracks.
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Our residential stucco services ensure that your walls enjoy protection and aesthetics while you enjoy the privacy it offers.

Commercial Stucco

Business buildings deserve to be as attractive as residential buildings, although in a more formal or semi-formal way. The attractiveness of your office building can determine if potential customers will come in to do business with you.

We offer our stucco installation, repair, and remodeling service to businesses to help them improve their building's curb appeal and attract more customers. We indirectly contribute to the profitability of these businesses. Our work doesn't disturb your business, customers, or patients, as we schedule our work to fit in where it's suitable for your business.
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We also offer to help you improve your brand attractiveness and awareness by using stucco on your walls in ways that do that.

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Stucco Repair
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Does your stucco have cracks? Is it unpleasant to look out as a result of age and prolonged exposure to the sun? Do you feel it repels customers from staying longer on your premises? It may be time for you to employ the services of a professional stucco contractor to repair it.
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Our stucco repair service helps you to restore the stucco to its former level of hardiness and beauty. It is relatively cheaper to repair your stucco than to remove it and install a new one. Therefore, it'll save your business some cost while you improve your brand's physical attractiveness and attract more customers.

Stucco Remodeling

Remodeling an existing stucco is considered an easy task. However, you still need an expert to help you accomplish the desired aesthetics.

Different homeowners require different levels of stucco remodeling. Some want their stucco to appear as though it's new. Others want it to be covered, as though it were never there. Whichever category you fit in, you require a professional stucco contractor to handle the remodeling.
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Although painting is the easiest of them all, you can also achieve good aesthetics with siding and veneers.

Two-coat and Three-coat stucco:

Your stucco wall can have two coats - the scratch coat and the finish coat, or three coats - the scratch coat, the brown coat, and the finish coat. Both layers offer aesthetics but three-coat stucco is generally more durable because it has more thickness before you reach the wall.
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Whichever one you desire, we possess the expertise to give your home the appropriate stucco makeover.

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Stucco Replacement

A stucco lath is the plastering base. It holds the plastering in place and provides anchorage for the cement and the aggregates. The most common lath is metal or wire. However, glass fiber is commonly gaining ground due to its perceived better performance as a lath. A wire mesh lath is easy to use. However, it doesn't provide the same anchorage that a glass fiber does. Also, glass fiber reduces the chances of stucco cracking and subsequent repairs. Glass fiber lath is available in different sizes, and we can help you choose the best one that's suitable for your building's walls.

In recent times, building owners have been caught between choosing traditional stucco products and materials and modern ones. We'll guide you to choose the best one, depending on where you want stucco added in or out of your building. Traditional stucco absorbs moisture and is more susceptible to cracks and holes. However, acrylic stucco repels water, making it protect your walls better, especially buildings with wooden walls. Hence, traditional stucco is more suited for your interior walls while acrylic stucco should be used for exterior walls.

Stucco Additions

Stucco addition is a service that requires extending the stucco that you have on some parts of your wall, to reach other parts. It usually encompasses treating the parts of the wall without stucco and applying stucco that matches the existing one.

In many cases, the new stucco should possess the same color and texture as the existing one, and that requires some level of expertise. However, in other cases, for aesthetic reasons, the colors may differ while the texture is the same, or both may be different.

Whichever type of stucco addition you desire, we will deliver it as fast as possible, without sacrificing quality.

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Stucco Products

To give your home and business building that stucco interior and exterior that you want, we rely on using stucco products that are reliable and give you the desired durability and protection you want for your walls. While there are many brands for different stucco products, we know the quality ones, and we'll choose the right one for you.
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Generally, the stucco products we need to give you that perfect wall finish includes cement, lath, foam, aggregate, lime, glass fibers, and acrylics.

The cement will hold all the aggregates that go into the stucco mixture together. It forms into a paste that we can easily manipulate to create the structure dictated by the wall frame. While many cement brands will work well with aggregates used for stucco, we have a few that we prefer to use for better results as they last longer and won't crack as easily as others.

The soundproof properties and the fire resistance that stucco walls offer are a result of the foam used between the stucco and the walls. The appropriate foam board for a wall differs depending on where the wall is. An exterior wall requires a stronger foam board that is more resistant to the weather elements and creates a balanced surface for the stucco to rest. However, an interior wall requires a softer foam as it is easier to mold into shapes that suit your design. We ensure that the right foam board is used for different parts of your home.

Stucco Colors

Stucco colors are majorly gray and white because Portland cement, the major component of stucco, has these colors. However, you can choose any color ranging from warm to cool and dark colors for your stucco walls. Color flexibility in stucco allows you to express your personal style in your home, or promote your brand color in your business building.

Achieving any color, other than gray and white, with stucco requires that you mix the color pigment you want in the cement used for stucco before applying it to your walls. However, there are some important calculations that need to be done to get the right color pigment to add to your Portland cement.

As a professional stucco contractor, Stucco Repair of San Diego will help you handle the calculation and apply the right color pigment to the cement for your stucco walls. We'll also help you to ensure color and wall longevity and protection, with low maintenance with the right color pigment and cement balance.

Stucco Textures

How your stucco wall feels to touch contributes to its attractiveness. You can have a uniform texture on all the walls of your building or use certain textures for specific parts of your home. Whichever texture you choose, Stucco Repair of San Diego will help you create a neat textured finish on your walls.

There are different stucco textures to choose from, and we can give you any of them. The most common ones include the following.
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• The Stucco Dash Finish is arguably the most common stucco finish you'll find on any building. There are three major dash finish types. They are the fine dash finish, the heavy dash finish, and the pebble dash finish. They are differentiated by the size of the dash grain, with the fine dash grain having the least grain size and the pebble dash having the biggest grain size.

 

• The Cat Face Texture combines a smooth and rough surface to accomplish some aesthetics. It is accomplished by using two-coat stucco. Whether you choose traditional or acrylic stucco, you can achieve this textured finish for both interior and exterior walls. It is characterized by differing sizes of rough patches on the smooth surface.

 

• The Float/Sand Finishes is a simple stucco finish that is achievable with only one coat. It is available in three appearances - fine, medium, and coarse. This finish achieves its texture depending on the green float you use. Also, the principle for knocking down the sand with a trowel requires professional input.

 

• The Lace Finish Textures, also called the Lace and Trowel finish, is another common stucco finish that is applicable to both residential and commercial buildings. It is best achieved using traditional stucco but acrylic stucco can also be used, only with less texture depth. Its variants include coarse, medium, and fine patterns.

 

• Worm Finishes are also called Putz finishes. They are achieved using synthetic stucco and aggregates. The special aggregates to achieve this finish isn't common, and you won't find them on many buildings but they offer an interesting outlook on your wall. They're suitable for interior and exterior walls.

 

• Smooth Stucco Finishes look simple to achieve but they aren't. They can be with or without aggregate and can be accomplished using acrylic or synthetic stucco.

 

• The Santa Barbara Finish is similar to the smooth stucco finish but special aggregates are needed to achieve it. The cement-based finish makes it possible to easily paint the surface for a different color at another time.

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Our Service Area​

Stucco Repair of San Diego wouldn't be worthy of its name if we don't offer our services in the different areas of San Diego, CA. We reach our service areas as fast as possible to help our customers get the best service possible.

Our service areas include La Jolla, Little Italy, North Park, Carmel Valley, Hillcrest, Torrey pines, Gaslamp Quarter, Old town, Downtown, Del Mar Mesa, Torrey Hills, University City, Carlsbad, Clairemont, Oceanside, and every other town in San Diego, CA.
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We also offer our services to the San Diego, CA surrounding areas, including La Mesa, Coronado, Imperial Beach,  Spring Valley, Chula Vista, and National City, among others.

​Why choose us?​

We understand that there are many stucco plastering companies that you can choose from around San Diego. However, few of them can match the service quality and attitude to work that we offer at Stucco Repair of San Diego.
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Considering our experience and customer testimonials, you'll agree with us that we're one of the few that can deliver what you desire in your interior and exterior stucco. However, to distinguish ourselves from the competing few, here are some reasons you should choose us over them.

Flexible Services

We are equipped with the know-how and the experience to handle different stucco challenges and make them appear as good as new. 
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Our flexibility among the different stucco installation, remodeling, and repair services that we offer helps us to understand stucco materials better than most stucco businesses, and apply the strengths of each product to give you the best stucco quality you've ever had.

Quality Services

With us, there's no halfway quality. We always deliver the best stucco installation, remodeling, and repair services. Our quality is evident in how our customers feel about us.
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We also assure you of our quality by offering you free 12-month insurance that begins to count after the stucco installation is complete.

Affordable Pricing

Despite the high quality of our stucco services and the free insurance that comes with it, we offer our services at a considerably lower price compared to the competition. While pricing often shows quality, we believe that it's often exaggerated.

Stucco Repair of San Diego focuses on delivering quality services while helping you save costs.

Contact Us Today

If you stay around San Diego, or your residential or commercial building is in San Diego or the San Diego, CA surroundings, give us a call to get the best stucco installation, repair, or remodel services.

We are a reliable Stucco firm with many years of experience and customer satisfaction records.

You can fill out the form we've provided below to get a free quote for your stucco services needs. You can also reach us by calling this phone number: (619) 693 - 3232.

We look forward to hearing about your stucco service needs.

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Some Stucco Facts

Stucco has been around for a long time, and its origin can be traced to Europe. It was later adopted in America for its protection and aesthetics. Its use in Europe includes as a protective exterior wall covering and for creating artistic and architectural works on ceilings and walls.
Stucco used to be strictly for exterior walls while plastering was used for interior walls even though they use the same materials. However, stucco used aggregates such as animal or plant fibers in place of modern glass fibers. Lime was a common component in traditional stucco but gypsum plaster has taken its place in modern stucco. However, some stucco contractors still use lime to increase the workability of stucco these days.

Modern stucco comprises the major stucco components - Portland cement, sand, lime, and water. However, they also contain more synthetic additives and acrylics to improve their strength and flexibility. They are applicable in one layer and a finish, making them faster to accomplish than the traditional three-coat layer.

Stucco attaches to different substrates but the ideal ones include brick and mortar. Although it attaches to wooden frames that are commonly used in American buildings, it is susceptible to cracking on them. Wooden frames will lose moisture and shrink. They’ll also settle and the weight of a three-coat stucco will cause the joints of the frame to become tighter causing the plaster to displace on its substrate, hence cracks are formed. 

While this doesn’t mean wooden frames are bad for substrates, it means some factors have to be considered when applying stucco on wooden wall frames. These factors include ensuring that the wooden frames have no more than 19% moisture content and they meet an engineering requirement of L/360 maximum deflection.

It is possible to have beautiful stucco but they are of poor quality. One of the determiners of stucco quality is the sand-to-cement ratio. It is tempting to want to cut costs by reducing the quantity of cement used in making stucco but that always means sacrificing quality. The cement is there to bind the sand and other aggregates together. 

Therefore when it’s inadequate the stucco ceiling will fall and the walls will be chalky to touch. The ratio of sand to cement varies on the coat you’re applying. Generally, one part of Portland cement to three or four parts of aggregate is sufficient for the scratch coat. However, the brown coat will require one part of Portland cement to three to five parts aggregate.