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.
Naples high-end estates (Port Royal, Old Naples beachfront, Pelican Bay) use specialized stucco finishes — Tabby finish on coastal walls, Venetian plaster interiors, lime-wash finishes — that economy stucco companies can't match. Repair work requires color matching against weathered, aged exteriors with sun-bleached areas that need careful matching.
Our Naples crew works across the full city — from 5th Avenue South, Naples Pier, Naples Botanical Garden, Naples Zoo, Pelican Bay, Vanderbilt Beach — and we're familiar with how stucco repair scope changes between Old Naples and 5th Avenue South.
Naples disaster history: Hurricane Ian (2022), Hurricane Irma (2017 — eye crossing), Hurricane Wilma (2005). Hurricane crack repair has to address underlying movement, not just patch the visible crack.
Walk a block in Old Naples or Aqualane Shores and you can read stucco failure from the street. Hairline cracks running from window corners, horizontal cracks at floor lines on two-story builds, rust-stained spalls breaking out around lintels, and on a handful of 1940s-1960s estates, original lime-stucco patches blending poorly with later Portland-based repairs. Each pattern points to a different cause — thermal, settlement, salt-driven rebar corrosion, or chemistry mismatch — and the repair is only as good as the diagnosis.
Some pre-1960 Old Naples estates west of 3rd Street South still carry original lime-based stucco on the original CBS or hollow-tile substrate. Patching that with a modern Portland-cement mix is a chemistry mismatch — Portland is harder than the host wall, and the patch transfers stress into the surrounding lime, cracking it within two seasons. We test a discreet patch with a hardness comparison before quoting the repair. On confirmed lime substrates, we mix a natural hydraulic lime patch (NHL 3.5 or NHL 5) and color-match the finish coat. It's slower, it's more expensive, and it's the only thing that holds on those walls.
Hairline cracks under 1/16" wide that don't telegraph through to interior finishes are usually thermal — CBS stucco expanding through the daily temperature swing common across 34102 and 34103. We chase those out with a grinder, fill with a polymer-modified acrylic patching compound, then texture-match before paint. Cracks wider than 1/16", running through window corners or visible on both faces of a wall, are structural — settlement on a filled lot, 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 on a Port Royal or Pine Ridge wall; the failure surfaces again in 18 months and the homeowner pays twice.
A meaningful share of late-1990s and early-2000s Pelican Bay and Park Shore homes used EIFS — synthetic stucco over foam, not cement over block. EIFS fails differently from traditional three-coat stucco: water gets behind the foam through window flashing or roof-to-wall penetrations, soaks the sheathing, and rots the substrate without showing on the face. We probe-test before quoting any EIFS repair on a Naples wall built in that window. The scope almost always comes back larger than the homeowner expected — and on a few cases, the right answer is full removal and reclad to a traditional CBS-and-three-coat assembly.
Color-matched stucco patching is the last 10% of the work and the part most repairs get wrong on a premium Naples wall. We sample the existing wall in three locations under different light, mix a custom color into the finish coat at the manufacturer's color lab, then dust-match the texture with the same float, sponge, or trowel pattern the original applicator used. Done right, a Naples stucco patch disappears into the wall and stays disappeared through the next paint 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 Naples homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 989-2430 for a same-day estimate. Our Naples stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Naples homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 989-2430 for a same-day estimate. Our Naples stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Naples homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 989-2430 for a same-day estimate. Our Naples stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Naples homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 989-2430 for a same-day estimate. Our Naples stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
For Naples homeowners, the answer depends on the specific scope — call us at (239) 989-2430 for a same-day estimate. Our Naples stucco repair crew handles this routinely; we can give you a clear quote after a 15-minute walkthrough.
Our Naples stucco repair crew dispatches across the full city — from Old Naples, 5th Avenue South, Port Royal, Aqualane Shores, Pelican Bay, Vanderbilt Beach, Park Shore, Pine Ridge, Royal Harbor, Coquina Sands, North Naples, Lely, East Naples, covering ZIP codes 34102, 34103, 34104, 34105, 34108, 34109, 34110, 34112, 34113, 34114, 34116, 34119, 34120. Stucco failure modes vary across Naples's construction eras — we diagnose before patching.
Naples insurance carriers we work with: Citizens Coastal, Chubb / AIG Private Client, Pure Insurance, HOA carriers for Pelican Bay / Park Shore. 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 Naples →Pre-1960 Old Naples bungalows along 3rd Street South and 4th Avenue South typically have soft, vapor-permeable lime stucco over wood lath or early concrete block. Modern Portland-rich pre-bagged stucco mixes are too hard and trap moisture, which spalls the original substrate within a few seasons. We repair with NHL 3.5 or NHL 5 natural hydraulic lime — typically St. Astier — matched to the original sand grading after a sieve analysis of an existing sample. Three-coat application (scratch, brown, finish) is hand-trowelled, and we keep the new patch slightly softer than the surrounding original.
Many Pelican Bay homes built in the late 1980s through mid-1990s used barrier EIFS — synthetic stucco over EPS foam without a drainage plane — which traps wind-driven rain at window perimeters and roof terminations. Repair starts with infrared and moisture probe survey to map saturated foam. Wet foam is removed back to dry substrate, the sheathing is inspected and replaced where rotted, and we rebuild with modern drainage-plane EIFS (Sto, Dryvit, or Parex). All terminations get backer rod and high-grade polyurethane sealant, never silicone, which won't tie into the EIFS basecoat.
Integrally tinted stucco — common on Port Royal and Aqualane Shores homes built in the 1990s and 2000s — can't be patched with bagged white stucco and topcoated, because the tone shifts over time. We pull a 2-inch core of the existing finish, send it to a stucco color lab (typically Parex or Omega), and match the integral pigment formula. The patch is applied with the same float technique — sand finish, dash finish, or skip-trowel — and we feather the edge into a natural break line at a control joint or corner so any minor variance doesn't catch sun-angle differences.
Horizontal cracking at the floor band between first and second story on Park Shore and Moorings homes is usually not structural — it's the stucco failing to bridge framing shrinkage between the wood second-floor system and the masonry first floor. The fix is a control joint, not a patch. We saw-cut a clean 3/8-inch reveal at the band line, install a PVC casing bead with backer rod, and seal with a high-elongation urethane like Sika 1A. Above and below, we patch in matched stucco. True structural cracks tend to step diagonally across openings and need an engineer review.
Cementitious stucco in Naples needs 28 days of cure under ASTM C926 before any coating goes on, and that assumes ambient temperatures above 50°F and relative humidity that allows moisture to leave the substrate. In Naples summer with 80% RH, we test cure with a pH pen — fresh stucco runs pH 12–13, and we want pH below 10 before priming. Painting too early traps alkali, which saponifies binders and causes peeling within a year. For NHL lime stucco on Old Naples historic repairs, carbonation cure runs longer — 60–90 days — and we typically leave it unpainted or use breathable mineral paint.
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