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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 La Cañada Flintridge and the surrounding California communities.
Fifteen minutes down the 2. Shaded estate walls and slope cracks lead the La Cañada Flintridge list.
La Cañada Flintridge stucco is a 1920s Flintridge estate wall under oaks that never fully dries, a 1950s ranch in the center with a sprinkler at the base of every wall, and a canyon house above Foothill Boulevard with a crack over the door that the slope reopens each year. We cut and fill the cracks, patch the chips, rebuild a damp or hollow section to sound lath in three coats, and match the texture and color to the wall around it. The weep screed and the caps are checked on the same scope.
AFTERBEFOREAll of these are repairs, and a Kaminskiy-certified technician comes down the 2 from our Glendale office for them. One look, a written scope, and then three coats, each one 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 La Cañada Flintridge stucco repair.
Shade, slope and wind. The oaks and sycamores keep the walls under them damp for days after a storm, which softens the base, rusts the corner beads and lets water into the paper and lath behind the stucco. Most lots slope, so the frame moves a little each year and a hairline opens at the corner of a window or over a door. The windstorms off Angeles Crest arrive here first and put branches into walls. The damage is quiet and steady, and it is cheapest in its first year.
A hairline at a window corner that comes and goes with the season is the frame working on a slope lot, and it gets cut, filled with a repair that can move, and sealed. Call about a crack that takes a coin, a crack that has grown year over year, a wall that sounds hollow over an area wider than your hand, a rust streak from a bead, or a crack that runs down from a header that has dropped. If it follows the foundation or the header, an engineer looks before we patch.
A proper patch is cut back to sound stucco and lath, with the torn paper and the rusted lath replaced, and then built up in three coats: a scratch coat that cures, a brown coat floated flat with the wall that cures, and a finish coat worked to the texture around it and tinted or painted to the house. That is about a day of work spread over visits, and the cure time is the point; a patch rushed in an afternoon shrinks away from the wall and cracks again by summer.
Get the canopy off the wall so the sun reaches it part of the day, rake the leaves away from the base and keep the soil below the weep screed. Aim the sprinklers at the planting and not the house, caulk the window and door perimeters before the rains, and keep paint or a fog coat on the walls. After a windstorm, walk the house and look at the corners and the caps; a chip found then is a small patch.
Estates from the 1920s to the 1950s on big wooded lots that slope toward the Arroyo, many in Spanish or Mediterranean stucco with heavy trowel finishes, tile sills and garden walls with capped tops. The canopy keeps the north and east walls damp for days after a storm, so the base goes soft and the caps stain the wall below them; the old patches were troweled flat by someone in a hurry. We cut back to sound lath, rebuild in three coats, and copy the trowel from the wall beside the patch so the estate keeps its face.
First to meet the windstorms off the mountains, with driven rain behind the sills, branches into the walls and shade in the canyons that keeps the post bases and the stucco skirt wet. The slope moves a little, so a crack over a door or at a window corner comes back through every coat of paint. We fill the frame cracks with a repair that can move, patch the impact damage, and measure anything that keeps widening so an engineer can look before we patch it.
Ranch homes from the 1950s and 1960s with a sand or dash finish, pop-out sills and a sprinkler along every walk that has wet the same two feet of wall for decades. The base goes hollow, the hose-bib holes have been patched with caulk, and the south wall crazes in the heat. We cut the soft stucco out, replace the paper and lath, bring it back in three coats and get the water running away from the wall first.
Call 747-298-8227 or text a close photo of the crack, the chip or the soft spot and one of the whole wall. We give a range on the call and set the look; an estate walk-through gets its own appointment.
On the walk-through the technician sounds the wall for hollows, measures each crack, checks the weep screed, the sills and the caps, looks at where the shade and the water sit, and writes the scope: what gets cut and filled, what gets re-lathed, how the trowel and the color will be matched, and how many visits the coats need. The scope carries the price, and nothing is cut before you have it.
The failed stucco comes off to sound lath, new paper and lath go in, and the scratch coat goes on and cures. On the next visit the brown coat is floated level with the wall and left to cure in its turn.
The finish coat is troweled to the pattern of the wall beside it and tinted or painted to the house. Cut-offs and dust leave with us; the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice at the price you approved.
Under California law a job below a small set amount may be done without a license when it needs no permit and no employees; a stucco patch with new lath and three visits on the calendar is beyond that, and the state wants a licensed contractor for it. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds License #1106209, is bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technicians, and everything over the state's written-contract threshold is on paper before it starts.
La Cañada Flintridge builds to the Los Angeles County Building Code, adopted by the city with its own amendments and its own building official, and the county code keeps the state's list of work exempt from a permit: ordinary repairs to a structure need no application and painting and similar finish work is exempt. Crack repair, patching, matching the finish, resetting a cap and replacing a small area of lath are that kind of work. Stripping and re-lathing a large area of wall, or anything that reaches a structural member, is where we ask the city's building counter before a job like that.
Most of La Cañada Flintridge has no association, and the city's design rules are about anything new, not a patch that matches the house. The city says every property is in the very high fire hazard zone; stucco is a noncombustible finish and a patch changes nothing about that, but a vent or exterior door we touch on the same wall has a wildfire standard to meet. The rule that decides whether a patch lasts is the canopy and the drainage, so we say which branches to lift and where the downspout should go.
Fifteen minutes down the 2. Your La Cañada Flintridge crew dispatches from our Glendale office on Brand Boulevard, fifteen minutes down the Glendale Freeway, so an estate list is usually on the calendar within days. Call 747-298-8227, text photos, or send the form.
Can't find your answer? Call 747-298-8227 and ask us anything.
Call 747-298-8227Count on three visits at least. We cut out the failed stucco, replace the paper and lath and put on the scratch coat; once it has cured we come back for the brown coat; once that has cured we come back for the finish coat, the trowel pattern and the color. About a day of work spread down the 2 from our Glendale office, and the written scope tells you how many visits.
Yes, and on a Flintridge estate that is most of the job. We study the trowel stroke, the depth and the aggregate on the wall beside the patch and work the finish coat to it, then tint or paint to the house. A wall that has aged under the trees for decades can show a fresh patch as a shade brighter until it weathers in; we tell you that at the look, and a fog coat across the elevation is the answer when it matters.
A hairline over a door or at a window corner that opens in winter and closes by summer is the frame moving on a slope lot, and it is normal here. It still wants filling and sealing so water stays out of the paper and lath. Call about a crack that takes a coin, that has grown from one year to the next, that runs along the base of the wall, or that comes down from a header that has dropped; when it follows the structure an engineer sees it before we patch.
No. A synthetic system is foam board with a thin base and finish over it, repaired by the maker's method or not at all, so it goes to the system's certified installer rather than to us. We tell you at the look which kind of wall you have; the older La Cañada Flintridge houses are traditional three-coat stucco.
It depends on how much is cracks, how much is hollow stucco that needs new lath, and how heavy the texture is to match. Send photos for a range on the call; the written scope after the look prices the cutting, the lath, the three coats and the trowel match before anything is touched, and the invoice follows the scope you approved.
Yes. A one-year workmanship warranty in writing comes with every patch, the crew is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, and Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds California contractor License #1106209, bonded and insured.
Not the patch itself. Stucco is a noncombustible finish, and a three-coat repair puts back the same material, so there is no standard to meet for the patch. What the zone does change is anything else on the wall: a replaced vent or exterior door has a wildfire standard, and if one sits in the area we are patching we check the product before it goes in and tell you what qualifies.
All of La Cañada Flintridge from our Glendale office: Flintridge, the Descanso streets, Memorial Park and the foothills below Angeles Crest, plus Pasadena, Altadena, La Crescenta, Montrose, Glendale and Sunland-Tujunga. Call 747-298-8227 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: 747-298-8227.
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.
