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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 West Hollywood and the surrounding California communities.
A few blocks from our office. Courtyard walls, street faces and the building list lead here.
West Hollywood stucco is mostly on buildings: the 1920s Spanish Revival and Art Deco courtyard buildings the city has designated, the duplexes of the Eastside, the condo corridors on Doheny and the Sunset side, with a few single-family streets in between. The cracks run off the window corners, the courtyard walls stay damp where the walks never dry, corner beads rust and the stucco around a replaced fixture or a pulled sign stays open. We patch it in three cured coats, match the texture and color, and price a building once for the whole list.
AFTERBEFOREEach one is stucco work for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day a few blocks south on Wilshire. Three coats on three visits per patch, one written price per unit or per building.
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 West Hollywood stucco repair.
Density, use and age. The courts and duplexes went up in the 1920s and 1930s on lots so tight that a downspout from one building empties against the next, and the shared walks never see the sun, so the stucco at the base stays damp until the bond fails. The ground moves under everything, so the hairlines run off the arches and the window corners. And the paint has been touched up for decades rather than redone, so the finish chalks and the old patches show. Each is small the turnover it appears.
A hairline off a window corner or an arch that a credit card edge covers is the building moving and the lath joint showing, and it waits for a dry week. Call about a crack that widens, a stair-step crack across a wall, a bulge, a hollow sound, white bloom, rust streaks from a corner or a stain under a parapet cap. Those mean water behind the paper or a frame that shifted, and a crack that follows the foundation or runs from a header that dropped goes to an engineer before we patch it.
Three coats, three visits, per building if the list is long. The loose stucco is cut back to sound lath, the torn paper and rusted lath or bead replaced, and the scratch coat goes on. It cures. The brown coat follows and is floated level with the wall. It cures. Then the finish coat in the matched texture and the color the owner or the board approved. The cures take days, so a patch forced through in a single afternoon cracks around its own edge by the next turnover, which is why we do not sell one.
Extend the downspout that empties at the wall, keep the walks draining away from the base and keep soil and planters below the weep screed. Reseal the parapet caps on the flat-roofed buildings every few years. Repaint or recoat before the finish chalks, the whole elevation at once. Once a year tap the lower wall around the court with a knuckle; a hollow spot found in spring is a patch, not a section.
Single-family 1920s and 1930s homes with the original three-coat stucco, under a neighborhood overlay that keeps the street side as it was, and hillside houses above the Strip where the frames rack and the cracks reopen at the openings. We keep the street face in kind, reproduce the trowel pattern by sample, tint to the aged color, and fill the hillside cracks so they stay closed.
1920s Spanish Revival and Art Deco courtyard buildings, many designated cultural resources, with hand-troweled stucco, arched openings, shared walks that stay damp and one unit's downspout emptying at the next unit's wall. The bases go hollow, the arches crack at the spring line, the old patches show. We cut back to sound lath, recoat in three coats, reproduce the finish and photograph before and after for the city's file.
Duplexes and apartments with rusted corner beads, chipped corners at the carports and holes where fixtures came off, and the condominium buildings with flat roofs, parapet caps and balconies whose stucco soffits and railing walls get inspected by law. We patch the whole building on one scope so it ends one color, recoat the caps, and scope the balcony stucco in writing for the board.
Call 310-928-6211 or text pictures of the crack, the soft base or the rusted corner, by unit if it is a building. Most West Hollywood stucco repairs get a range on the call and a date for the look.
A technician taps the walls, checks the weep screed, the downspouts and the flashing where the wall meets the walk or a roof, and writes the scope item by item: what is cut out, what is filled, how the texture is matched and the three visits each patch takes. The owner, the manager or the board approves it before anything is cut.
Loose stucco comes off to sound lath, the paper, lath and corner bead are repaired and the scratch coat goes on. Once it has cured we are back for the brown coat, floated level with the wall around it.
The finish coat goes on in the matched texture and the approved color, feathered into the wall. The dust leaves with us, the courtyard is swept, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
California lets a repair under a small set amount be done without a license when it needs no permit and nobody is employed to do it; a three-visit patch, a re-lathed base or a building's list is above that line and wants a licensed contractor. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technicians, and jobs over the state's written-contract threshold go on paper first, which for a manager or a board is the point.
West Hollywood is its own city with its own building code and its own list of work exempt from a permit, and it builds to the California codes. The state residential code it builds to asks no application for an ordinary repair and exempts painting and similar finish work, which is where filled cracks, a patched hole, a matched texture and a recoated cap fall. Replacing paper and lath over a large area, or opening into framing, is the kind of job we check with the city's Building and Safety desk before we quote it.
West Hollywood has designated roughly ninety cultural resources, many of them 1920s courtyard buildings on Fountain, Harper and Havenhurst: a patch that preserves the original finish is the repair the city wants to see, and we photograph before and after; a new finish or color on the outside goes through a Certificate of Appropriateness first. The condo associations carry California's balcony inspection law and the apartment owners their own version, and the cracked or spalled stucco on a balcony soffit or railing wall that the report flags is scoped in writing for the board. West Hollywood West keeps its street faces under a neighborhood overlay.
A few blocks south, on Wilshire. Your West Hollywood crew dispatches from our Beverly Hills office at 8383 Wilshire, a few blocks down La Cienega, which is why a unit or a building list is usually on the calendar within days. Call 310-928-6211, text the list, or send the form.
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Call 310-928-6211Three visits; a patch is three coats and nothing less. The scratch coat goes on once the loose stucco is cut back and the lath repaired, the brown coat goes on after it has cured, and the finish coat with the matched texture and color goes on last. Skip a cure and the patch cracks at its border. On a building we run every patch on the same three visits, so a long list takes the same calendar as a short one.
Yes. We match the texture on a sample board first, the hand trowel of a 1920s court or the sand finish of a 1960s building, hold it against the wall in daylight, then tint the finish to the color the elevation has weathered to. We feather the finish past the patch so there is no edge, and the owner or the board approves the sample before the finish coat goes on.
Not a true hairline off a window corner or an arch; that is the building moving and the lath joint showing, and we fill it on a dry day. Worry about a crack that widens along its run, a stair-step crack, a bulge, a hollow sound, white bloom, rust streaks or a stain under a cap. Those mean water behind the paper or a frame that moved, and a crack that follows the foundation goes to an engineer before we patch over it.
No. Some of the newer condo buildings 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 and can trap water. We tell the board on the look if a wall is synthetic and refer it to the system's certified installer. The cement three-coat stucco on the courts and the older buildings is ours.
It depends on how much is loose, how high it is and how hard the finish is to match. Text photos by unit and you get a range on the call; after the look a building gets one written scope, item by item, that the manager or the board can approve all of or part of, with the three visits in the number. Nothing is cut until the scope is approved.
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 preserves the resource, which is what the city wants to see, and we photograph before and after for the file. A new finish or a new color on the outside goes through a Certificate of Appropriateness first, and we say so before anything is mixed.
All of West Hollywood from our Beverly Hills office, including West Hollywood West, the Norma Triangle, the Santa Monica Boulevard courts, Harper, Havenhurst, the Sunset Strip hillside and the Eastside, plus Beverly Hills, Beverly Grove, the Fairfax district, Hancock Park and the Hollywood Hills. The bungalow courts' wood 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.
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