Project: Roofline Stucco Repair and Repaint
This is the most complete sequence we have photographed: the same wall, from failure, through the ugly middle, to a finish where you cannot tell anything ever happened. If you want to know what a proper stucco repair actually looks like from start to end, this is it.
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Where it failed
The damage was up at the roofline of a two-story home, where the wall meets the eave. That junction is one of the hardest-working details on any Florida house. Rain runs off the roof and is driven back against the wall, the two materials expand and move at different rates, and any gap that opens becomes a direct route into the wall. It is a common place for stucco to let go, and a difficult place for a homeowner to inspect, which is why it is so often found late.
In the first photographs a section of stucco has already broken away near the roof edge, high above the porch and garage.
Cut back to bare lath
The second pair of photographs is the part most people never see. We removed the failed stucco and kept going until we reached material that was genuinely sound, which meant exposing the bare metal lath underneath - the mesh the stucco keys into.
This is the discipline that decides whether a repair holds. The temptation is to stop at the edge of the visible damage, because every extra inch you remove is more work and more material. But stucco that is already debonding at the boundary of a failure will simply let go later, taking your new repair with it. So you cut back until the wall stops arguing with you.
Rebuilt
The next photographs show the wall re-stuccoed: the failed sections rebuilt in proper coats and the texture worked back to match the wall around them. At this stage the repairs are structurally complete but plainly visible as gray patches against the tan of the house, which is exactly what an honest half-finished stucco repair looks like.
Anyone who tells you a repair at this stage is "done" is not going to finish it.
Repainted, and gone
The final photographs are the point of the whole job. With the wall sound and the texture matched, the elevation was repainted, and the repairs simply disappear. Same color, same texture, same wall. From the street there is no evidence that a section of this house was open to the lath a short time earlier.
That is the sequence, and the order is not negotiable: repair first, then paint. Paint over a failing wall and it fails again through the new coating, and you have then paid for both.
What this job should tell you
If your stucco is breaking away anywhere near the roofline, it is worth taking seriously. That junction is a common water route, and material coming off there is a reason to have the wall looked at rather than left.
This is our stucco repair work followed by stucco painting as the finishing step, done in one project so the two are built to work together.
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