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.
Captiva's salt-air spalling on embedded rebar is severe. Repair has to fully seal embedded rebar before patching, then apply marine-grade sealer over the patch. Anything less and it fails within 18 months.
Our Captiva crew works across the full city — from South Seas Island Resort, Captiva Beach, Andy Rosse Lane, Bowman's Beach (Sanibel side), Tween Waters Inn — and we're familiar with how stucco repair scope changes between Captiva Village and South Seas Plantation.
Captiva disaster history: Hurricane Ian (2022 — catastrophic), Hurricane Charley (2004), Hurricane Irma (2017). Hurricane crack repair has to address underlying movement, not just patch the visible crack.
Walk a Captiva beachfront elevation and the failure pattern reads itself: rust-stained spalls breaking out around lintels, blooming along the slab edge, and tracking down vertical column embeds. Salt-laden air carries chloride through any microcrack in the stucco finish, reaches the embedded reinforcement steel, and corrodes it. Iron oxide expands at roughly seven times the original steel volume — that pressure is what pushes the stucco off the block. On Captiva, where every gulf-facing wall is in a permanent chloride bath, that mechanism runs faster than anywhere else in Lee County. The fix is never more stucco on top of failed substrate.
On a Captiva repair, we chip the spalled stucco back to sound concrete with a needle scaler or a 14-pound chipping hammer, expose the corroded rebar fully — sometimes 12-18 inches past the visible spall — and abrasive-blast or wire-wheel the bar to bright metal. Then a zinc-rich epoxy primer goes on the steel, two coats, with full cure time between. Zinc-rich (minimum 80% zinc by dry weight) provides galvanic protection: even when a future microcrack admits chloride, the zinc sacrifices preferentially before the steel does. Standard rust-converter primer doesn't do that — it converts the existing oxide but provides no ongoing protection. The difference shows up at year five.
Not every Captiva stucco crack is rebar-driven. Hairline cracks under 1/16 inch wide, running diagonally from window corners or in scattered patterns across a wall face, are usually thermal — CBS stucco expanding and contracting through the island's daily temperature swing under direct sun. Those we chase with an angle grinder, fill with a polymer-modified acrylic patching compound, then texture-match before paint. Cracks wider than 1/16 inch, running through structural corners, or visible on both faces of a wall need an engineering review before any patch goes on. A structural crack buried under fresh stucco is a six-year time bomb on a Captiva wall.
Some 1990s and early-2000s Captiva builds — particularly in the South Seas Plantation resort area — used EIFS, the synthetic stucco-over-foam system, rather than traditional three-coat cement stucco over CBS. EIFS on a barrier island is its own failure category. Water gets behind the foam at window flashing and parapet terminations, soaks the substrate behind, and rots the OSB sheathing without showing on the face. We probe-test before quoting any EIFS repair on Captiva and almost always find the scope is two to three times what the homeowner expected. Traditional three-coat over CBS, which is most of the village-area housing stock, repairs predictably with the rebar-prep discipline above.
Color and texture matching is the last layer of the job, and it's where most Captiva stucco repairs visibly fail. We sample the surrounding wall in three locations under sunlight, mix custom color into the finish coat, then dust-match the texture with the same float, sponge, or trowel pattern the original applicator used. Marine-grade sealer goes on after cure, before paint. Done that way, a Captiva stucco patch disappears into the wall and stays disappeared through the next coating cycle.
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 Captiva homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Captiva stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Captiva homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Captiva stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Captiva homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Captiva stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Captiva homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Captiva stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Captiva homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 920-7972 for a same-day estimate. Our Captiva stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
Our Captiva stucco repair crew dispatches across the full city — from Captiva Village, South Seas Plantation, Sunset Captiva, Twin Palms, Captiva Beach, Plantation Estates, covering ZIP codes 33924. Stucco failure modes vary across Captiva's construction eras — we diagnose before patching.
Captiva insurance carriers we work with: Citizens Coastal Account, high-value home carriers, NFIP. 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:
All services in Captiva →That's salt spalling, and it's the dominant stucco failure mode on Gulf-facing Captiva exposures. Chloride aerosols penetrate stucco hairline cracks, migrate to the CMU-stucco bond plane, and on reaching embedded steel (ladder reinforcement, lintels) initiate corrosion. Rust expands roughly six times the original steel volume, which fractures the bond and pops the stucco off in sheets — what looks like cosmetic flaking is actually a corrosion-driven failure from inside. Repair requires removing all delaminated material to sound substrate, treating exposed steel with a zinc-rich rebar primer, and rebuilding stucco in proper three-coat sequence.
EIFS — exterior insulation finish system — on Captiva is repairable in some cases and a strip-and-replace in others. Older barrier EIFS (pre-2000) with no drainage plane traps moisture and is a chronic problem on barrier-island exposures; we usually recommend conversion to a drainable EIFS or a CMU-and-stucco rebuild. Newer drainable EIFS with proper flashing can be patched: cut back to sound material, replace EPS board, embed new mesh into base coat with 4-inch overlap, and finish with matching texture. Moisture probing per ASTM E2128 around windows and penetrations is the diagnostic — invisible problems live there.
Rust staining through stucco is a symptom of corroding embedded steel — typically ladder reinforcement, lintels over openings, or stucco lath in wood-frame construction. Painting over it without treating the source brings the stain back within a year. We chip back to the corroded steel, mechanically clean to SSPC-SP3 condition, apply a zinc-rich primer (Sherwin-Williams Zinc Clad or similar with 65-85% zinc by weight in the dry film), then rebuild the stucco. If multiple stains cluster on one elevation, we recommend a half-cell potential or cover-meter survey to map the corrosion before deciding patch versus larger remediation.
Three-coat stucco (scratch, brown, finish over metal lath or directly on CMU) on Captiva needs material adjustments. We use a Type S masonry cement with integral water-repellent admixture for the scratch and brown coats, which slows chloride ingress. Acrylic-modified finish coats (Parex, Omega, or similar) outperform straight Portland finishes on the Gulf side. Curing is critical: we damp-cure for 48 hours minimum, longer if ambient is below 70%, and we don't paint for 28 days unless we verify pH below 10 with a phenolphthalein test. Skipping that step is the most common cause of premature blistering.
Yes, but expect a sample-board iteration step. Older Captiva textures — lace, sand-float, swirl, knockdown — were hand-applied with regional technique variations, and matching requires producing 2-foot square samples on backerboard for owner approval before the actual elevation work begins. We mock up 2-3 variations against the existing wall in natural light. Older homes near Andy Rosse Lane and on Wiles Drive often have lime-based or stucco-over-frame assemblies that respond differently to modern materials, so we sometimes hand-mix custom finish coats to match aggregate size and binder behavior rather than using off-the-shelf bag mix.
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