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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 Westwood and the surrounding California communities.
Down Wilshire from our office. Sprinkler damage at the base and hairlines on the 1930s walls lead here.
Westwood stucco runs from the hand-troweled 1920s and 1930s walls in the hills and the flats to the Wilshire Corridor towers and the fourplexes toward campus, and it fails three ways: a sprinkler strip along every walk that wets the same foot of wall each morning until it goes hollow, hairlines off the window corners as the old frames settle, and chipped corners and open fixture holes from a semester of use. We cut and fill, patch, re-lath the hollow sections, recoat in three cured coats and match the texture and color.
AFTERBEFOREEach one is stucco work for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who comes down Wilshire from our office. Three coats on three visits, the color sample approved before the finish goes on.
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 Westwood stucco repair.
Water, shade, age and use. The flats run sprinklers every morning and the spray and the planters keep the bottom foot of wall wet until the stucco loses its bond and goes hollow. The hills are planted with trees that hold the damp against the north walls. The frames under the 1920s and 1930s stucco have settled for a century, so every shake shows as a hairline at an opening. And toward campus the fourplexes take a semester of use between fixes. Each is small the year it appears, and cheaper then.
A hairline off a window or door corner that a credit card edge covers is the house settling and the lath joint showing; it waits for a dry week. Call about a crack that widens along its run, a stair-step crack, a bulge, a hollow sound, green or white bloom at the base, rust streaks from a corner or a stain under a cap. Those mean water behind the paper or a frame that moved, and a crack that follows the foundation or runs from a header that dropped goes to an engineer before we patch it.
A patch is three coats and three visits. First the loose stucco comes off down to sound lath, new paper and lath or bead go in where the old failed, and the scratch coat is applied. It cures. Next the brown coat, floated out flush. It cures. Last comes the finish coat in the texture and color you signed off on. The cures take days, so the wall is done on the third visit and not before; a patch pushed through in a single afternoon cracks around its edge by the next semester, which is how most of the old patches we replace got there.
Move or cap the sprinkler heads that hit the wall and keep soil, mulch and planters below the weep screed. Thin the canopy or trim it back so the north wall sees some sun. Reseal the parapet caps on the Corridor buildings every few years. Recoat or repaint while the finish is still sound, not after it chalks. 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.
Large lots with mature trees and 1920s and 1930s homes in the original three-coat stucco, with associations that like a repair to match. The canopy keeps the north walls damp long after the rain, so the base goes green and hollow and the finish chalks in the shade; the frames have settled for a century, so the hairlines run off the window heads. We re-lath the base, recoat in three coats, reproduce the trowel pattern by sample and tint to the aged color.
1920s to 1950s Spanish, Traditional and ranch homes with wood-sash windows, plaster inside and a sprinkler strip along every walk. The spray hits the same foot of wall every morning until the bond fails, the window-sill corners crack and the old patches show in the afternoon light. We cut the soft stucco back to sound lath, recoat, match the finish and point out the heads to move.
Condo buildings with stucco soffits, parapet caps and balcony railing walls that fall under the association's rules and the balcony inspection law, and student rentals that turn over every summer with chipped corners, open fixture holes and rusted beads. We patch a building on one scope so it ends one color, scope the balcony stucco in writing for the board and clear the fourplex list between tenants.
Call 310-928-6211 or text a picture of the crack, the hollow base or the chipped corner with something in frame for scale. Most Westwood 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, by the room or by the building if it is a rental, 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. When that has cured we return with the brown coat and bring the patch flush.
The finish coat goes on in the matched texture and the approved color, feathered into the wall. The dust leaves with us and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
In California a repair under a small set amount can be done without a license, but only if it needs no permit and no one is employed to do it. A three-visit patch, a re-lathed base or a fourplex's list is past that line, and Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technicians. Every job over the state's written-contract threshold goes on paper before it starts.
Westwood is in the City of Los Angeles, where LADBS needs no permit for painting and similar finish work or for regulated work under a small set value that does not affect structural stability; beyond that the Building Code asks for a permit to alter or repair a structure. A filled crack, a patched hole, a matched texture and a recoated cap are the first kind. Replacing paper and lath across a large area of wall, or opening into the framing, is the second, and we ask LADBS before we quote a job like that rather than guess.
The condominium buildings along Wilshire have boards and managers, and California's balcony inspection law covers their balconies, so cracked or spalled stucco on a soffit or a railing wall that the engineer's report flags is scoped in writing for the board and matched to the elevation. Up the hill, Holmby Hills, Westwood Hills and Little Holmby have associations that rarely need to see a matching patch; a new finish or color sometimes does, and we put the sample in writing. The hill streets sit in the very high fire hazard zone, so a vent we uncover goes back in to the wildfire standard. Westwood has no historic overlay zone.
Straight down Wilshire from our office. Your Westwood crew dispatches from our Beverly Hills office at 8383 Wilshire, fifteen minutes west along the boulevard, so a call here is usually on the calendar within days. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo, or send the form.
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Call 310-928-6211Three visits, a coat each. The first cuts the loose stucco back to sound lath, repairs the paper and lath and puts on the scratch coat; the second, after it has cured, puts on the brown coat; the third puts on the finish in the matched texture and the approved color. Each cure takes days, and skipping one is why the old patches on the rentals cracked at their edges. Every patch on one house or one building runs on the same three visits.
Yes. We match the texture on a sample board first, the hand trowel of a 1930s Westwood Gardens wall or the sand finish of a Corridor building, 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 or the board approve the sample before the finish coat goes on.
Not a true hairline at a window or door corner; that is a century-old frame settling 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, bloom at the base, rust streaks from a corner 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 it.
No. Some of the newer Corridor buildings and remodels 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 you or 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 houses and the older buildings 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, by the building for a rental. The number you approve is the number on the invoice, with all three visits inside it.
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, when the list comes by text ahead of the turnover. Chipped corners, open fixture holes and rusted beads are cut back and patched on the same three visits as the rest of the building, matched so the fourplex ends one color, and the finish coat is scheduled to be dry before move-in day. The three visits need calendar room for the cures, so send the list early.
All of Westwood from our Beverly Hills office, including Holmby Hills, Westwood Hills, Little Holmby, Comstock Hills, Westwood Gardens, Westwood Village and the Wilshire Corridor, plus Bel Air, Brentwood, Century City, Rancho Park, Sawtelle and Beverly Hills. Wood siding on the Westwood houses is covered 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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