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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 Los Angeles and the surrounding California communities. Wood, fiber cement, T1-11 and vinyl siding, fascia and trim have their own page: siding repair in Los Angeles.
The Westside and the hills, one crew. Hairlines on the Spanish walls and chipped corners lead the list.
Most of Los Angeles went up between 1910 and 1965 in three-coat stucco over wood lath, and a century of small earthquakes, sprinklers and settling has left its marks: hairlines off every window corner, chipped corners at the drive, a hollow foot of wall behind the planter, rust bleeding from the corner beads, old patches that never matched. We cut and fill, patch, cut the hollow sections back to sound lath and recoat them in three cured coats, then match the texture and the color so the wall reads as one again.
AFTERBEFOREEvery item is routine stucco work for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who works the Westside and the hills from our Wilshire office. Three coats on three visits, the color sample approved before the finish.
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 Los Angeles stucco repair.
Age and three climates. The ground moves under the whole city, and stucco over wood lath is rigid, so every shake and every settling season shows as a hairline at a window or door corner. The flats are irrigated every morning and the spray and the planters keep the bottom of the wall wet until the bond fails. The hills bake from July to October and creep when it rains. The Westside sits under the marine layer and never dries out. None of it is dramatic. All of it is cheaper this year than after the next rain.
A hairline off a corner that a credit card edge covers is the house moving and the lath joint showing; it can wait for a dry week. Call about a crack that widens along its run, a stair-step crack, a bulge, a hollow sound, white bloom, rust streaks from a corner or a stain under a cap. Those mean water behind the paper or a frame that shifted, and a crack that lines up with one in the foundation or runs from a header that dropped goes to an engineer before we patch over it.
A patch is three coats and three visits. We cut the loose stucco back to sound lath, replace the torn paper and the rusted lath or bead, and apply the scratch coat. It cures. The brown coat goes on and is floated flush with the wall. It cures. Finally the finish coat, matched in texture and tinted to the sample you approved. The cures are days, not hours, so the wall is finished on the third visit and not before; a patch hurried through in a single afternoon cracks around its own edge by the next winter.
Move the sprinkler heads off the wall and keep soil, mulch and planters below the weep screed at the bottom. Reseal the parapet caps on a flat-roofed house every few years. Repaint or recoat before the finish chalks, especially on the Westside. Once a year tap the bottom foot of every wall with a knuckle; a hollow spot found in spring is a patch, a hollow wall found after the rain is a section.
1920s and 1930s Spanish, Tudor and Craftsman homes with the original hand-troweled stucco over wood lath, plaster inside and a sprinkler strip along every walk. The cracks run off the window and door corners, the bottom foot goes hollow where the spray hits, and a century of patches shows in daylight. Hancock Park, Miracle Mile and Carthay Circle are historic overlay zones, so every patch is in kind: the trowel pattern reproduced by hand and the color tinted to the aged wall.
Post-and-beam houses from the 1950s and 1960s with long flat walls, control joints and parapet caps, on slopes that creep when it rains, all in the very high fire hazard zone. The joints open, the caps split and stain the face, and the crack over the door comes back every winter. We fill the joints so they stay closed, recoat the caps, and refinish a panel where a spot patch would show.
Mid-century tracts and duplexes under the marine layer half the year, so the stucco stays damp, blooms white with efflorescence, chalks and loses its bond at the base, and the corner beads rust through from behind. We cut out the rusted bead, re-lath the hollow sections, recoat in three coats and seal, and the duplexes get the whole building priced at once so it ends one color.
Call 310-928-6211 or text a picture of the crack, the hollow wall or the rusted corner with something in frame for scale. Most Los Angeles 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 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, lath and corner bead are repaired and the scratch coat goes on. After it has cured we return for the brown coat and float it flush with the old wall.
The finish coat goes on in the matched texture and the approved color, feathered into the wall so there is no edge. The dust leaves with us and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
California lets anyone take a repair under a set small amount without a license, as long as it needs no permit and nobody is employed to do it. A stucco patch crosses that line by the second coat, and the state wants a licensed contractor for it. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), is bonded and insured, sends Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technicians, and puts every job over the state's written-contract threshold on paper before it starts, which is why the price comes in writing even for one crack.
The City of Los Angeles reads the rule tightly. LADBS needs no permit for painting and similar finish work or for regulated work under a small set value that does not touch structural stability; beyond that the Building Code asks for a permit to alter or repair a structure. Filling cracks, patching a hole, matching a texture and recoating a cap is the first kind. Replacing paper and lath over a large area of wall, or opening into the framing or a header, is the second, and we ask LADBS before we quote a job like that rather than guess.
In a historic preservation overlay zone such as Hancock Park, Miracle Mile or Carthay Circle, a patch that reproduces the original texture and color is a repair in kind and needs no review; a new finish or a new color on the street face goes to the zone's board first. The hillside streets have been a very high fire hazard zone since 1999; stucco changes nothing there, but a vent we uncover goes back in to the wildfire standard. The condo buildings along Wilshire and on the Westside have boards and managers, and a stucco repair there is scoped in writing for the board and matched so the building reads as one.
Our Westside office is on Wilshire. The Los Angeles crew works out of the Beverly Hills office at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard and covers the flats, the hillside streets and the Westside from there. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo, or send the form, and we answer in under three rings.
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Call 310-928-6211Three visits for three coats. The first cuts the loose stucco back to sound lath, repairs the paper and lath and applies the scratch coat; the second, after it has cured, applies the brown coat; the third applies the finish in the matched texture and the color you approved. Each cure takes days and skipping one is why old patches crack at their edges. Several patches on one house run on the same three visits.
Yes. We match the texture first on a sample board, the hand trowel of a 1920s Hancock Park wall or the sand float of a Mar Vista tract house, check it against the wall in daylight, then tint the finish to the color the wall has weathered to rather than the original chip. We feather the finish past the patch so there is no edge, and you approve the sample before the finish coat goes on.
Not a true hairline at a window or door corner; in Los Angeles that is the ground moving and the lath joint showing, and we fill it on a dry day. Worry about a crack that widens along its length, a stair-step crack, a bulge, a hollow sound, white efflorescence or rust streaks from a corner. Those mean water behind the paper or a frame that moved, and a crack that lines up with the foundation goes to an engineer before we patch it.
No. EIFS and the synthetic one-coat systems on some 2008-and-newer houses have their 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 the wall is synthetic and refer it to the system's certified installer. The cement three-coat stucco on most of Los Angeles 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 three coats and the finish priced before anything is cut. What you approve is what the invoice says, Mid-City or the Palisades, 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 that reproduces the original texture and the aged color is a repair in kind, which is what 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 to the zone's board first, and we say so before anything is mixed.
The Westside and the hills from our Beverly Hills office: Mid-City, Hancock Park, Larchmont, Miracle Mile, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Mar Vista, Palms, Cheviot Hills, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades, plus Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Westwood, West Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills and Culver City. Wood and fiber-cement siding 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.
