Our Work
Recent stucco repair projects.
From hairline shrinkage cracks to hurricane-blown stucco panels — we repair, color-match, texture-match, and seal. CBS and wood-frame construction both handled, on tract homes and custom estates.
Bad stucco repair shows. A patch in the wrong texture, the wrong color, or the wrong technique is visible from across the street. We match the original stucco's sand size, troweling pattern, and color before paint. After cure, we prime the patched area so paint absorbs uniformly with the surrounding panel.
Cape Coral's CBS stucco construction (the standard for 1960s-1990s homes) cracks from Florida thermal expansion, settlement on filled canal lots, and hurricane wind load. Spalling with rust staining is the most common failure mode here — embedded rebar corrodes in salt-air conditions, then expands and pushes the stucco off the block. Repair has to seal the rebar before patching or it cracks again inside 2 years.
Our Cape Coral crew works across the full city — from Cape Coral Yacht Club, Sun Splash Water Park, Four Mile Cove Ecological Preserve, Cape Coral Bridge, Tarpon Point Marina, Cape Coral Hospital — and we're familiar with how stucco repair scope changes between Cape Harbour and Tarpon Point.
Cape Coral disaster history: Hurricane Ian (2022 — Cat 4 direct hit), Hurricane Irma (2017), Hurricane Charley (2004), repeated tropical storm flooding. Hurricane crack repair has to address underlying movement, not just patch the visible crack.
Walk any block in 33914 or 33904 and you can read stucco failure from the sidewalk. Hairline cracks running diagonally from window corners, horizontal cracks at floor lines on two-story homes, rust-stained spalls breaking out around lintels and rebar paths. Each pattern points to a different cause — thermal stress, settlement, or salt-driven rebar corrosion. The repair is only as good as the diagnosis, and a patch over a misdiagnosed failure cracks again within 18-24 months.
Hairline cracks under 1/16" wide that don't telegraph through the interior drywall are usually thermal — CBS stucco expanding and contracting through Cape Coral's daily temperature swing. We chase those out with an angle grinder, fill with a polymer-modified acrylic patching compound, then texture-match before paint. Cracks wider than 1/16", running through corners, or visible on both faces of a wall are structural — settlement, frame deflection, or post-storm shift. Those need an engineering review before any patch goes on. We don't bury a structural crack under stucco; that's how a small problem becomes a wall-replacement six years later.
The signature Cape Coral stucco failure on Tarpon Point, Cape Harbour, and any Yacht Club home is rust spalling around the rebar in the lintels and at the slab edge. Salt-laden air drives chloride through any micro-crack, reaches the embedded steel, and corrodes it. Rust expands at roughly 7x the original steel volume — that's what pushes the stucco off the block. The fix isn't more stucco. We chip back to sound concrete, abrasive-blast or wire-wheel the rebar to bright metal, treat with a corrosion-inhibiting primer (epoxy-based, zinc-rich for canal exposure), then re-bond with polymer-modified mortar before re-stuccoing. Skip the rebar prep and the spall comes back.
A handful of late-1990s and 2000s Cape Coral homes (some Sandoval and Coral Lakes builds) used EIFS — synthetic stucco over foam, not cement over block. EIFS fails differently: water gets behind the foam through window flashing, soaks the substrate, and rots the sheathing without showing on the face. We probe-test before quoting any EIFS repair and almost always find the scope is bigger than the homeowner expected. Traditional three-coat stucco over CBS, which is most of Cape Coral, repairs predictably. EIFS does not.
Color-matched stucco patching is the last 10% of the job and the part most repairs get wrong. We sample the existing wall in three locations, mix a custom color into the finish coat, then dust-match the texture with the same float, sponge, or trowel pattern the original applicator used. Done right, a Cape Coral stucco patch disappears into the wall and stays disappeared through the next paint cycle. That is the standard the work has to hit.
Visual + moisture inspection. Hairline shrinkage vs. structural crack vs. spalling — each has a different repair.
Caulk-stop and mesh for structural cracks. Sealant for hairlines. Color and texture matched to existing stucco.
Primer applied to patched areas for uniform paint absorption. Substrate sealed against future water intrusion.
For Cape Coral homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Cape Coral stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Cape Coral homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Cape Coral stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Cape Coral homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Cape Coral stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Cape Coral homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Cape Coral stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Cape Coral homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Cape Coral stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
Our Cape Coral stucco repair crew dispatches across the full city — from Cape Harbour, Tarpon Point, Pelican, Burnt Store, Sandoval, Trafalgar Woods, Hancock Bridge, Yacht Club, Rose Garden, Coral Lakes, covering ZIP codes 33904, 33909, 33914, 33990, 33991, 33993. Stucco failure modes vary across Cape Coral's construction eras — we diagnose before patching.
Cape Coral insurance carriers we work with: Citizens Property Insurance, FEMA Flood Zones AE/X/VE, NFIP claims, Florida Peninsula, Tower Hill. We bill direct on most claims and document to adjuster standards from the first call.
Same crew, same standards — we cover the surrounding cities too:
Hairline cracks are typically straight or map-pattern, under 1/32 inch wide, don't open and close seasonally, and usually run through the finish coat only. They're cosmetic and result from normal cure shrinkage. Structural cracks are diagonal off window corners, stair-step through block, wider than 1/16 inch, often visible inside and out, and may open and close with humidity or season. In Burnt Store and other newer Cape Coral neighborhoods we also watch for vertical cracks at control-joint locations — those are often a missing or failed joint, not movement. We probe with a moisture meter at every crack to rule out water intrusion before recommending a repair method.
Almost always corroding rebar or stucco lath behind the wall, accelerated by Cape Coral's salt air and 70%+ ambient humidity. As the steel rusts it expands roughly 6x its original volume, which spalls the stucco from the inside out. We see this constantly in 1970s–80s Rose Garden, Yacht Club, and Hancock Bridge homes where the original construction used uncoated rebar or thin coverage. Repair means chipping back to sound stucco, sandblasting or wire-wheeling the steel, applying a zinc-rich rebar primer, then rebuilding with a base coat, scratch coat, and finish coat to match. Painting over the stain just delays the failure 18 months.
Most Cape Coral homes built before 2000 are traditional three-coat stucco over masonry block or wood-frame with metal lath. Newer homes — particularly some 2000s and 2010s builds in Sandoval and Coral Lakes — may have EIFS (Exterior Insulation and Finish System), which is foam board with a thin synthetic finish. They look similar from the curb but fail differently. We probe with an awl and run a moisture meter; EIFS sounds hollow and reads moisture in the foam. EIFS repair requires removing the affected foam, replacing the drainage plane, and re-coating — very different from patching traditional stucco. Mixing the two methods causes long-term failures.
Almost always repairable if caught before structural steel is significantly compromised. Salt spalling on Cape Harbour, Tarpon Point, and Yacht Club waterfront walls comes from chloride driving through the stucco and attacking rebar and block reinforcement. We chip back all loose and delaminated material, sandblast or hydroblast to clean substrate, neutralize residual chlorides with a wash, apply zinc-rich primer to exposed steel, and rebuild with a polymer-modified base coat designed for marine exposure. Topcoat with Loxon XP or an elastomeric. If the block face itself is significantly degraded — soft, friable, more than 1 inch deep — that's a different conversation that may involve partial wall replacement.
Small cosmetic crack repair with paint touch-up runs $400–$1,200 depending on access and scope. Moderate spall repair with rebar treatment on one elevation typically lands $2,500–$6,500. Full-house re-stucco with selective tear-off, lath replacement where needed, and new three-coat application runs $14,000–$28,000 on a typical 2,000 sq ft single-story in 33914 or 33991. Numbers go up on two-story Cape Harbour homes that need significant lift equipment and on waterfront elevations where chloride neutralization adds steps. We won't quote square-foot pricing sight-unseen because the spread between cosmetic and full repair is too wide to fairly estimate without probing the wall.
Free estimate. No pressure. Insurance billing handled. Call our Cape Coral line and we'll have a project manager in Cape Coral fast.
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