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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 Hollywood Hills and the surrounding California communities.
Steep lots, settling frames. Cracks at the openings and the ridge-side chimneys lead the stucco list.
Hollywood Hills stucco sits on slopes that creep, and it shows at the openings: hairlines off the window corners after every wet winter, cracks around the deck door, a parapet or chimney cap on the ridge split by the sun and the wind, a canyon-side wall that never dries and goes hollow at the base. We cut and fill the cracks, patch the chips, cut hollow sections back to sound lath, recoat in three cured coats, match the texture and the color, and carry every bag up the stairs ourselves.
AFTERBEFOREEvery one of these is stucco work for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who plans the visit around your stairs and your parking. A patch is three coats on three visits, each coat cured before the next.
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 Hollywood Hills stucco repair.
Slope first. A hillside house settles a little every wet winter, and stucco over wood lath is rigid, so the movement shows as cracks off the window and door corners, where the lath was cut, and around the deck door. Then sun and shade: the ridge side bakes until the finish chalks and the caps split, while the canyon side never dries and the bottom of the wall loses its bond. Add a retaining wall pushing at the base and the list writes itself. Each item is small the year it appears.
A hairline off a corner that you can cover with a credit card edge is the hill moving and can wait for a dry week. Call about a crack that is wider at one end, a diagonal stair-step crack, a bulge, a hollow sound, rust from a corner bead or a stain under a cap. Those are water behind the paper or a frame that has shifted. A crack that lines up with one in the foundation or the retaining wall, or runs from a header that dropped, goes to an engineer first; if the slope itself is moving that is a geotechnical question before it is a stucco one, and we say so.
Three coats, three trips up the stairs. We cut the loose stucco back to sound lath, replace torn paper and rusted lath, and apply the scratch coat. It cures. We come back for the brown coat and float it flush. It cures. Then the finish coat in the matched texture and the color sample you approved. Each cure is a wait of days, so the wall is finished on the third visit and not before; a patch forced through in a single afternoon cracks around its edge within a season.
Keep the soil and the mulch below the weep screed, and keep the retaining wall drain clear so it does not push water at the base. Reseal the chimney and parapet caps on the ridge every few years, before the stain shows. Repaint or recoat before the finish chalks. Once a year tap the bottom of the shaded wall; a hollow spot found in spring is a patch, not a section.
Steep lots with 1950s to 1970s post-and-beam houses, one wall in shade and the other in sun, decks hung off the back. The frame racks a little each wet season, so the cracks run off the window and door corners and reopen; the shaded wall stays damp at the base and the finish on the sunny wall chalks. We fill the cracks so they stay closed, re-lath the hollow base and match the mid-century sand finish by sample.
1920s Spanish and storybook homes with the original hand-troweled three-coat stucco over wood lath, in canyon shade that keeps the north walls damp. Whitley Heights is a historic overlay zone, so the repair stays in kind: we cut back to sound lath, recoat in three coats, reproduce the trowel pattern by hand and tint to the aged color rather than repaint the wall.
Modern and mid-century houses with long flat walls, parapet caps and chimney caps in full sun and wind over the city. The caps split, the stain runs down the face, the control joints open and the finish chalks. We reseal and recoat the caps, fill the joints, and refinish a whole panel where a spot patch would show against the view.
Call 310-928-6211 or text a picture of the crack or the cap and one of the way up to it. Most Hollywood Hills stucco repairs get a range on the call and a date for the look, planned around your stairs and parking.
A technician taps the wall, checks the weep screed, the flashing at the roof and the deck ledger line, and writes the scope: what is cut out, what is filled, how the texture is matched and the three visits each patch takes. 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. After it cures we return for the brown coat and float it flush with the wall. The mix comes up the stairs with us.
The finish coat goes on in the matched texture and the approved color, feathered into the old wall. The dust leaves with us, down the stairs, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
A repair under a set amount can be done in California without a license when no permit is needed and nobody is employed to do it; a three-visit patch, a re-lathed section or a run of cracked caps is the rest, and wants a licensed contractor. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds License #1106209, is bonded and insured, its technicians are Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, and jobs over the state's written-contract threshold go on paper before anyone climbs the stairs.
The Hollywood Hills are in the City of Los Angeles, where LADBS needs no permit for painting and similar finish work or for regulated work under a small set value that does not affect structural stability; beyond that the Building Code asks for a permit to alter or repair a structure. Filling cracks, patching, matching texture and resealing a cap is the first kind. Replacing paper and lath across a large area, or opening into framing, is the second, and on a hillside lot anything new has grading and hillside rules of its own, so we ask LADBS before we quote a job like that.
Whitley Heights is a historic preservation overlay zone: a patch that reproduces the original texture and color is a repair in kind and needs nothing, and a new finish on the street face goes through the zone's review first. The hills have been a very high fire hazard zone since 1999, and the January 2025 fire near Runyon Canyon was a reminder; stucco changes nothing there, but a vent we uncover goes back in to the wildfire standard. Hollywoodland, Outpost Estates and a few hillside communities have associations that rarely need to see a matching patch.
Twenty minutes from the canyons. Your Hollywood Hills crew dispatches from our Beverly Hills office at 8383 Wilshire, up La Cienega or Laurel Canyon, and plans the visit around your stairs and your parking. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo of the item and the steps, or send the form.
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Call 310-928-6211Three visits, one per coat. The first cuts the loose stucco to sound lath, repairs the paper and lath and puts on the scratch coat; the second, after it cures, puts on the brown coat; the third puts on the finish in the matched texture and approved color. Each coat needs its cure or the patch cracks at its edge. Up here we also plan the visits around your parking and your stairs, and we say so on the call.
Yes. We match the texture on a sample board first, the hand-troweled finish on a 1920s Beachwood house or the sand float on a 1960s canyon house, hold it against the wall in the light it gets, then tint the finish to the color the wall has weathered to. We feather the finish past the patch so the eye finds no edge, and you approve the sample before the finish coat goes on.
Not a true hairline off a window or door corner; that is the hill settling and the lath joint showing, and we fill it on a dry day. Worry about a crack wider at one end, a stair-step crack, a bulge, a hollow sound, rust streaks or a stain under a cap. Those mean water behind the paper or a frame that moved. A crack that lines up with the foundation or the retaining wall goes to an engineer before we patch it, and a slope that is moving is a geotechnical question first.
No. Several of the newer glass houses on the ridge and the Bird Streets carry EIFS or a synthetic one-coat system with its own base coat, mesh and drainage detail, and a repair outside the manufacturer's method voids what warranty is left. We tell you on the look if a wall is synthetic and refer it to the system's certified installer. The cement three-coat stucco on the older canyon houses is ours.
Access sets more of the price here than anywhere: a crack you can park beside and a hollow wall three flights down are not the same job. Text a photo of the wall and one of the way up to it and you get a range on the call; after the look you get a written scope with the cut-out, the three coats and the finish priced before anything is cut. The three visits are in the one number.
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 that reproduces the original trowel pattern and the aged color is a repair in kind, which the overlay zone wants to see, and we photograph before and after for the file. A new texture or a color change on the street face goes through the zone's review first, and we say so before anything is mixed.
All of the Hollywood Hills from our Beverly Hills office, including Laurel Canyon, Nichols Canyon, Lookout Mountain, the Bird Streets, Sunset Plaza, Beachwood Canyon, Hollywoodland, Hollywood Dell, Whitley Heights, Outpost Estates and the Mulholland streets, plus West Hollywood, Los Feliz and Studio City. Siding for this market is on 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.
