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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 Santa Clara and the surrounding California communities.
Ten minutes up El Camino from our office. Tract cracks and rental patches lead the Santa Clara stucco list.
Santa Clara stucco is mostly the 1950s and 1960s tracts, Killarney Farms, Westwood Oaks, Bracher and Homeridge Park, three-coat work over wood frame that has had sixty summers of sun and sixty winters of sprinklers at the base, plus the rental houses around the university where a wall gets a new hole every few tenants. We cut the damage back to sound lath, rebuild it in three coats, and float the texture to match, from our office ten minutes up the road in Sunnyvale.
AFTERBEFOREEach of these is a patch, not a re-stucco, for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day ten minutes away in Sunnyvale. One look, a written scope, then three coats with the cure time between them.
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 Santa Clara stucco repair.
Clay, sun and hard use. The valley clay under the tracts swells in the winter rain and shrinks by August, and a stucco wall is a rigid skin on a frame that moves with it, so the crack runs off the window corner and the garage header every year. Santa Clara sits in the dry, sunny end of the Bay, so the paint on the south and west walls chalks early and the rain gets into the hairlines. At the base, sixty years of sprinklers and planter beds have buried the weep screed, the metal edge that is supposed to let the wall drain, and wet paper behind the stucco is where a hollow spot begins. Around the university, add tenants, moving trucks and side gates.
A hairline off a window corner that opens in summer and closes in winter is the house moving with the clay: seal it before the rain and watch it. Call when a crack takes a dime, when it steps along the sheathing joints, when a stretch of wall sounds hollow under your knuckles, when a stain comes back after every storm, or when the base of the wall gives under a screwdriver. A crack that follows a settled foundation or a header that has dropped is an engineer's question first, and our finish work after.
Three coats, built the way the wall was. We cut the damaged stucco back to sound lath, replace torn paper and rusted lath, then put on a scratch coat and let it cure, a brown coat and let it cure, and a finish coat floated or dashed to the texture around it. Each coat has to set up before the next goes on, so a patch runs across visits a few days apart. A hole filled and painted in one stop has skipped two coats, and the ring around it shows by the next summer; on a rental, that is the patch the next tenant complains about.
Turn the sprinkler head away from the wall and rake the planter soil down until the weep screed shows. Seal the hairlines in September before the first storm, keep the sill caps and the head flashing tight, and repaint with an elastomeric or a good acrylic before the old paint chalks through, because paint is what keeps water out of a hairline. For a landlord, a walk around the building at every turnover catches the hole and the soft spot while they are still a patch.
Victorians and craftsman bungalows from the late 1800s to the 1930s, mostly wood siding, with stucco on the later additions, the garages and the Spanish-style houses that filled in between them, and many of them rentals today. The old stucco is softer than modern cement and a hard patch cracks around its edge, so we match the mix as well as the texture. Homes on the city's historic inventory get no review for a repair that matches what is there.
The stucco heart of the city: 1950s and 1960s ranch tracts with three-coat stucco over wood frame, pop-out sills and a weep screed at the slab line that sixty years of lawn have buried. The list is the diagonal crack off the window, the soft base course where the sprinkler reaches, the hollow stretch under the eave and the failed sill cap. The Pomeroy townhomes are mostly glass and wood, with association rules for anything that shows from the street.
Newer homes, townhomes and condos from the 1990s and 2000s, most in associations, many rented to people who move every two or three years. The stucco is one-coat or thin three-coat with foam trim, and the work is a chipped corner at the garage, a gap at a foam trim joint, the patch after a plumber opened the wall, and the turnover list, all blended to the approved color with the scope in writing for the board or the manager.
Call 408-916-4022 or text a picture of the crack, the hole or the stained base with a hand or a coin for scale. Most Santa Clara stucco repairs get a range on the call and a date for the look; a landlord can send the whole turnover list.
A technician knocks the wall for hollow spots, checks the weep screed, the sill caps and the flashing, opens a soft section far enough to see the lath, and writes the scope: the cut-back, the coats, the texture and color plan, and whether an engineer needs to look. The price is on it.
Cracks cut and filled, damaged sections cut back to sound lath with new paper and lath, then scratch, brown and finish coats, each one cured before the next, in visits spaced for the cure.
The finish is floated to match and the color blended or the wall painted to a natural break, the debris leaves with us, the manager gets photos, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice at the price you approved.
In California a small repair under a set amount can be done without a contractor license when it needs no permit and nobody is employed to do it, which covers a bead of sealant in a hairline and not a cut-back patch with new lath and three coats. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), is bonded and insured, and its technicians are Kaminskiy-certified and background checked; any job over the state's written-contract threshold goes on paper before it starts, which goes in the landlord's file.
Santa Clara publishes no exempt-work handout of its own, so the state residential code is the rule: no application or notice for an ordinary repair to a structure, painting and similar finish work exempt, and the line drawn at cutting a structural beam or a load-bearing support. Filling cracks, patching a hole or a hollow section and matching the texture are ordinary repair. Replacing the paper and lath across a large section of wall is where we ask the Building Division on Warburton Avenue first and tell you what it said.
A landlord's repair list is a habitability list in California, and a stucco hole at the gate or a soft wall at the slab goes on it; we work it between tenants with the manager's key and send photos when done. Old Quad homes on the city's historic inventory get a review before the front changes, and a matching patch needs none. Rivermark, the Pomeroy townhomes and the newer condo communities have associations that approve exterior colors, so the patch is blended to the scheme and the scope goes in writing for the board.
Ten minutes up El Camino from our office. Your Santa Clara crew dispatches from our South Bay office on Murphy Avenue in Sunnyvale, straight up El Camino Real or Central Expressway, so a turnover or a weekend list is usually on the calendar within days. Call 408-916-4022, text a photo, or send the form.
Can't find your answer? Call 408-916-4022 and ask us anything.
Call 408-916-4022It is three coats, so it is spread across visits. The scratch coat goes on once the loose stucco is cut back and the lath repaired, the brown coat follows after the scratch coat has cured, and the finish coat goes on last and is floated to match the wall. Each coat needs days, not hours, to set before the next one, so a Santa Clara patch is a day of work over a few visits. For a turnover we schedule the visits around the move-in date and put them on the written scope.
The texture will, because we float or dash the finish coat to the sand finish or the lace on the house and take the patch to a corner or a trim line where we can. Color is the harder half on a wall the sun has faded for decades, so we either blend the color into the patch or paint the wall out to a natural break, and we tell you which before the finish coat goes on.
Not about a hairline off a window corner that opens in summer and closes in winter; that is the clay moving the house, and sealing it before the rain is enough. Worry about a crack that takes a dime, one that steps along the sheathing joints, a hollow sound under your knuckles, a stain that returns after every storm, or a crack that lines up with a sinking corner of the slab. Those are worth a visit, and a crack tied to the slab is an engineer's call before it is ours.
No. EIFS is foam board with a thin base coat and mesh, and a repair has to use that system's materials and its certified installer or the drainage plane and the warranty are gone. If a Santa Clara building turns out to have it, we say so on the call and point you to the right installer. Traditional three-coat cement stucco and one-coat stucco are ours.
It depends on how much is loose, whether the paper and lath behind it need replacing, and how the color is handled. A photo with a hand in it for scale gets you a range on the call. The look turns the range into a written scope, with the cut-back, the number of coats and the color plan priced before any stucco comes off. For a landlord the same patch prices the same way at every unit.
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, and it is a normal Santa Clara week for us. The hole by the gate, the chipped corner at the garage and the soft spot at the slab go on the turnover list, we cut them back and build them up in three coats on visits spaced for the cure, blend the color, and send photos when done. If the new tenant has already moved in, we work outside with the manager's notice and nobody needs to be home.
All of Santa Clara from our Sunnyvale office, including the Old Quad, Killarney Farms, Westwood Oaks, Pomeroy, Bracher, Homeridge Park, Agnew and Rivermark, plus Sunnyvale, San Jose, Cupertino and Campbell. Call 408-916-4022 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: 408-916-4022.
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.
