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Kaminskiy Care and Repair patches stucco cracks and chips and matches the existing texture so the repair blends in. Hairline cracks are cosmetic; widening or bulging ones deserve a call, and the quote is free either way. We serve Beverly Hills and the surrounding California communities.
Our office is on Wilshire. Hairlines on the 1920s Spanish walls and sprinkler damage at the base lead the list.
Beverly Hills stucco is mostly the original three-coat work on the Spanish, Tudor and Mediterranean homes of the flats, with mid-century walls up in Trousdale. Hairlines open at the window corners after every shake, the hedge side stays damp and the sprinklers eat the bottom foot of the wall. We cut and fill the cracks, patch the chips and holes, cut hollow sections back to sound lath and re-stucco them in three coats, then match the texture and the color the house has carried for ninety years.
AFTERBEFOREAll of it is stucco work for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day on Wilshire. The patch gets three coats on three visits, and the color sample is approved before the finish goes on.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written quote you approve before anyone drives out.
Three coats, each one cured, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Beverly Hills stucco repair.
Three causes, in order. The ground moves: every shake and every settling season opens hairlines at the window and door corners where the lath was cut. Water sits: the hedges and the daily irrigation keep the bottom of the wall damp, and stucco that never dries loses its bond and goes hollow. The sun works: in Trousdale the south and west walls bake until the finish chalks and the caps crack. None of it is dramatic. All of it is cheaper this year than after the next rain.
A hairline you cannot fit a dime's edge into, running from a window corner, is cosmetic and can wait for a dry week. Call about a crack that is wider at one end than the other, a crack that steps along the wall in a stair pattern, a bulge, a section that sounds hollow, rust streaks from a corner, or anything near a header that has moved. Those are water behind the wall or a frame that shifted, and a crack that follows the foundation goes to an engineer before we touch it.
A stucco patch is three coats. We cut the loose stucco back to sound lath, replace torn paper and rusted lath, and float on the scratch coat. It cures. The brown coat goes on and is floated flat. It cures. Then the finish coat, in the texture and the color sample you approved. The curing is the point: a patch rushed through in a single afternoon cracks along its own edge within a season, so the job is three short visits and the wall looks finished on the third.
Move the sprinkler heads that hit the wall and trim the hedge back a hand's width so the base can dry. Keep soil and mulch below the weep screed at the bottom of the wall. Paint or seal before the finish chalks, not after it cracks. Once a year walk the house and tap the lower wall with a knuckle; a hollow sound found in spring is a patch, a hollow wall found after the rain is a section.
Spanish, Tudor and Colonial homes from the 1920s and 1930s with the original three-coat stucco over wood lath, gardens watered every morning and hedges tight to the wall. The bottom foot of the wall and the window-sill corners go first: sprinkler spray, damp soil against the base and a century of small shakes. We cut the soft stucco back to sound lath, re-stucco in three coats, match the sand or dash finish and tint the color to the aged wall, not the paint chip.
Smaller 1920s to 1940s houses and duplexes on tight lots, many of them changing hands, so the inspection report drives the stucco list: a cracked sill cap, a hollow patch by the garage, rust bleeding from a corner bead, a hole where a vent or a fixture came off. We clear the list in writing before the photos and leave the wall one color.
Mid-century houses with long flat walls, parapet caps and stucco that faces the sun all afternoon, on lots that move a little every wet winter. The caps crack and stain the face below, hairlines run at the control joints and the finish chalks. We reseal and recoat the caps, fill the cracks so they stay closed and refinish whole panels where a spot patch would show.
Call 310-928-6211 or text a picture of the crack, the hollow section or the chipped corner with something in the frame for scale. Most Beverly Hills stucco repairs get a range on the call and a date for the look.
A technician taps the wall, checks the weep screed and the flashing where the wall meets the ground or a roof, and writes the scope: what is cut out, what is filled, how the texture is matched and how many visits the coats take. The price is on it before anything is cut.
The loose stucco comes off to sound lath, the paper and lath are repaired, and the scratch coat goes on. Once it has cured we return for the brown coat and float it flush with the wall. Each coat cures before the next.
The finish coat goes on in the matched texture, the color sample you approved is blended into the old wall, the dust leaves with us and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
California lets a small repair under a set amount be done without a license when no permit is needed and no one is hired to help; a patch that takes three visits, a re-lathed section or a run of cracked caps is past that line and wants a licensed contractor. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds License #1106209, is bonded and insured, sends Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technicians and writes up every job over the state's written-contract threshold before the first cut.
Beverly Hills keeps its own list of work exempt from a permit and builds to the California codes with local amendments. The state residential code it builds to asks no application for an ordinary repair and exempts painting and similar finish work, which is where a filled crack, a patched hole, a matched texture and a recoated cap fall. Replacing paper and lath over a large area of wall, or anything that cuts into the framing, is the kind of job we check with the city's Building and Safety desk before we quote it.
Most of Beverly Hills has no homeowners association; the city's own rules do that work. A landmark or a contributing house in a historic district needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Cultural Heritage Commission before the street face changes, and a patch that matches the original texture and color is the maintenance the ordinance protects, so we photograph before and after for the file. North of Sunset the hillside is in the very high fire hazard zone and the 2025 state map reaches further; a stucco patch changes nothing there, but a vent we uncover goes back in to the wildfire standard.
Our office is on Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The crew starts the day at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard, so a Beverly Hills call is usually on the calendar within days and a technician can look the same week. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo, or send the form.
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Call 310-928-6211Three visits, because a patch is three coats. The scratch coat goes on the first visit after the loose stucco is cut back and the lath repaired, the brown coat goes on once it has cured, and the finish coat with the matched texture and color goes on last. Each coat has to cure or the patch cracks along its edge. The labor is short each time; the calendar is the cure.
That is the job. We match the texture first, sand float, dash or smooth, by hand on a sample board, then tint the finish or paint the patch to the color the wall has weathered to, not the color it was. On a 1920s wall in the flats we will often feather the finish past the patch so the eye has no edge to find. You approve the sample before the finish coat goes on.
Not about a true hairline at a window or door corner; that is the house moving and the lath joint showing, and we fill it on a dry day. Worry about a crack wider than a dime's edge, one that is wider at one end, a stair-step pattern, a bulge, a hollow sound or rust streaks. Those mean water behind the stucco or a frame that moved, and a crack that follows the foundation goes to an engineer before we patch it.
No. EIFS and the synthetic one-coat systems have their own base coats, mesh and drainage details, and a repair that is not the manufacturer's method voids what is left of the warranty. We tell you on the look if the wall is a synthetic system and refer it to the system's certified installer. The three-coat cement stucco on nearly every Beverly Hills house is ours.
It depends on how much is loose, how high it is and how hard the texture is to match. Text photos with something for scale and you get a range on the call; after the look you get a written scope with the cut-out, the coats and the finish priced before anything is cut. What you approve is what the invoice says, and the three visits are in the one price.
Yes. Every stucco repair carries a one-year workmanship warranty in writing and is done by Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technicians under California contractor License #1106209, bonded and insured.
Yes. A patch in the original texture and color is maintenance of the thing the preservation ordinance protects, and we photograph before and after so the file shows it. A change to the street face, a new texture or a new color, goes to the Cultural Heritage Commission first, and we say so before anything is mixed.
All of Beverly Hills from the office on Wilshire: the flats north and south, Trousdale Estates, Coldwater Canyon and Benedict Canyon, plus Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Grove and the Hollywood Hills. Siding is its own page for this market, our Los Angeles siding repair page. Call 310-928-6211 to confirm your address.
Send a photo of the wall and the address. We call back with a written price and the visits it takes. Calling is still fastest: 310-928-6211.
Priced on the call, blended to match, warranted in writing.
We answer in under three rings, 24/7.No price games. You get a clear written quote before any work begins, backed by our workmanship warranty.
