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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 Sunnyvale and the surrounding California communities.
Our office is downtown on Murphy Avenue. Sun-side cracks and pop-out sills lead the Sunnyvale stucco list.
Sunnyvale's stucco is on the 1960s and 1970s tracts through the middle of town, three coats over wood frame with the pop-out window sills that were the fashion then, and the city sits at the dry, sunny end of the Bay, so the south and west walls chalk early and the rain follows the hairlines in. The sill tops crack where they meet the wall, the base course soaks at the sprinkler line, and a section under the eave goes hollow. We cut back to sound lath, rebuild in three coats, cap the sills and match the finish, a few minutes from our office on Murphy Avenue.
AFTERBEFOREEach of these is a repair, not a re-stucco, for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day a few minutes away on Murphy Avenue. One look, a written scope, and three coats with the cure time each one needs.
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 Sunnyvale stucco repair.
Sun first, then water. Sunnyvale is the dry, sunny end of the Bay, so the paint on the south and west walls chalks years before the shaded side does, and once the paint is gone the winter rain runs straight into every hairline. The valley clay under the slab swells in the wet months and shrinks by August, and a stucco wall is a rigid skin on a frame that moves with it, which is the diagonal crack off the window and the step crack over the garage. At the bottom, the lawn sprinklers and the planter beds have buried the weep screed, the metal edge that lets the wall drain, and wet paper behind the stucco is where a hollow spot starts. The pop-out sills on the 1960s tracts add a horizontal ledge that catches water on top.
A hairline off a window corner that opens in summer and closes in winter is the house moving with the clay, and sealing it before the rain is enough. Call about a crack that takes a dime, a crack that steps along the sheathing joints, a stretch that sounds hollow when you knock, a stain under a sill that returns after every storm, or a base course that gives under a screwdriver. A crack that follows a settled foundation or a dropped header is an engineer's question first, and we do the finish after.
Three coats, each one cured. We cut the damaged stucco back to sound lath, replace torn paper and rusted lath, then put on a scratch coat and let it set, a brown coat and let it set, and a finish coat floated or dashed to the texture on the wall. Each coat has to cure before the next one goes on, so a patch comes in visits spaced days apart, not one afternoon. Our office is close enough that the visits cost you nothing extra; a patch filled and painted in one stop has skipped two coats and shows a ring by next summer.
Repaint the sun side before the paint chalks through, with an elastomeric or a good acrylic, because paint is what keeps the rain out of a hairline. Cap the pop-out sills so the top sheds instead of pooling. Turn the sprinkler head off the wall and rake the planter soil down until the weep screed shows. Seal the hairlines in September. A wall that stays dry behind the paper does not go hollow, and a crack caught early is a fill, not a re-lath.
The Eichlers are post-and-beam with wood siding and glass, so the stucco here is on the ranch tracts between them, 1950s and 1960s three-coat work over wood frame with wood fascia above it and a weep screed at the slab. The list is the crack off the window corner, the soft base course at the sprinkler line and the hollow spot under the eave. On an Eichler the stucco is usually a garage or a courtyard wall, and anything that shows from the street keeps to the city's Eichler design guidelines.
The city's oldest houses, 1900s to 1930s wood siding and porches, beside the 1960s and 1970s stucco tracts with pop-out sills. The sills are the weak point: the top edge cracks where it meets the wall, water gets behind the stucco and the wall below stains and softens. We cut the sill back, re-lath it, rebuild it in three coats and cap the top so it sheds. On the Heritage District streets a repair keeps to what was there.
Compact 1950s homes with thin stucco over frame, and 1970s and 1980s condo and townhome buildings in associations, with stucco at the stairs, the garages and the balcony edges. Chipped corners, cracks at the balcony-to-wall joint, and the patch after a plumber opened a wall, blended to the approved color with the scope in writing for the board. A balcony edge the inspection report flags is scoped with the carpentry, not around it.
Call 408-916-4022 or text a picture of the crack, the sill or the stained base with a hand or a coin for scale. Most Sunnyvale stucco repairs get a range on the call and a date for the look, and the look is a short drive from Murphy Avenue.
A technician knocks the wall for hollow spots, checks the sills, the weep screed and the flashing, opens a soft section far enough to see the paper and 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 and sills 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, the color blended or the wall painted out to a natural break, the debris leaves with us, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice at the price you approved.
Under California law a job under a small set amount may be done without a contractor license, but only when no permit is needed and no one is employed to do it; that covers sealing a hairline and not a cut-back patch with new lath and three coats. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and puts every job over the state's written-contract threshold on paper first.
Sunnyvale publishes its own sheet of work that needs no building permit, with painting and similar cosmetic work on it, a note that the list is not all-inclusive, and a reminder that exterior paint can need the Planning Division's approval. The state residential code fills in the rest: no application for an ordinary repair to a structure, never the cutting of a structural beam or a load-bearing support. Filling cracks, patching, capping a sill and matching texture are that kind of repair. Replacing the paper and lath over a large section of wall is where we ask the Building Safety Division first and tell you what it said.
Most single-family streets in Sunnyvale have no association. The Eichler tracts follow the city's Eichler design guidelines, which care about the look of the front, so a stucco repair that shows from the street keeps the original finish and color, and the Heritage District houses get the same respect. The condos and townhomes toward the Bay have associations that approve exterior colors and carry California's balcony inspection law, so a stucco patch at a balcony edge is blended to the scheme and scoped in writing for the board alongside the carpentry the report flags.
Our office is downtown on Murphy Avenue. The South Bay crew starts the day at 100 S Murphy Avenue, a few minutes from any Sunnyvale street, which is why a Sunnyvale call is usually the first stop on the calendar. Call 408-916-4022, text a photo, or send the form.
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Call 408-916-4022Three coats, each one cured before the next, so a patch runs across a few visits. Once the loose stucco is cut back and the lath is repaired, the scratch coat goes on and sets, then the brown coat and its cure, then the finish coat floated to match. Each coat needs days, not hours. Our office is a few minutes from any Sunnyvale street, so the return visits are easy to schedule, and they are on the written scope before we start.
The texture will, because we float or dash the finish coat to the sand finish or the lace on the house and carry the patch to a corner or a trim line where we can. Color is harder on a sun side that has faded for twenty years, so we 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 July 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, a crack that steps along the sheathing joints, a hollow sound under your knuckles, a stain under a sill that returns after every storm, or a crack that lines up with a sinking corner of the slab. We come and look at those, and the slab crack goes to an engineer before we touch it.
No. EIFS is a thin base coat and mesh over foam board, and only the system's certified installer can repair it with the system's own materials without losing the drainage plane and the warranty. If a Sunnyvale building turns out to have it, we tell you 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 will be handled. Text a photo with something for scale and you get a range on the call; after the look, which costs nothing from an office this close, you get a written scope with the cut-back, the coats and the color plan priced before any stucco is removed. The scope you sign is the invoice you get.
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.
The pop-out sills on Sunnyvale's 1960s and 1970s tracts are a horizontal ledge of stucco over a wood block, and the top edge cracks where it meets the wall. Water sits on the ledge, runs into the crack and behind the stucco below, and that is the stain and, in time, the soft spot. We cut the sill back to sound lath, rebuild it in three coats with a slope to shed, cap or seal the top edge, and patch the wall below once it has dried out.
All of Sunnyvale from Murphy Avenue, including Cherry Chase, Fairbrae, Birdland, Las Palmas, the Heritage District, Ponderosa Park, Raynor, Lakewood and San Miguel, plus Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara and Los Altos. 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.
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