Residential Stucco Repair in Central Florida
Residential stucco repair fixes the cracks, holes, and water damage that show up on Central Florida homes and restores the exterior so it looks right and keeps weather out. Most homes here are concrete block with a stucco finish, and that finish is what stands between your walls and the region's heat, humidity, and storms. Anicette Stucco has repaired homes across Lake County for more than 15 years, matching textures so repairs blend in. We are insured and every estimate is free.
Call (407) 456-2006 or get a free estimate.
Stucco problems on Central Florida homes
If you are not sure what you are seeing, send a photo when you get a free estimate and we will give you a steer on it.
- Cracks at windows, doors, and corners from settling and seasonal movement.
- Holes and impact damage from hardware, ladders, and storms.
- Water damage and staining where moisture has gotten behind the finish.
- Bubbling, delamination, and old mismatched patches that stand out on the wall.
Repairs that blend into your home
The mark of a good residential repair is that you cannot find it afterward.
- 01We spend the time to replicate your wall's texture, because on a home a smooth or mismatched patch is obvious.
- 02We prepare the area for paint.
- 03We keep the work area tidy and the disruption low.
- 04We walk the finished repair with you.
We treat your property like a home.
Our home stucco repair process
Step 01 of 05
We ask how old the house is
before we look at the crack, because on a home the age of the wall narrows the diagnosis faster than anything else we could do.
Where this sits in the wall
- Concrete block
- Weather barrier
- Metal lath
- Base coat
- Finish + texture
The cause is usually behind the finish, in the block or the barrier - not in the crack you can see.
What tends to go wrong, by the age of the house
These are tendencies rather than rules - a well-detailed older home can outlast a poorly-detailed new one, and exposure matters as much as age. But knowing roughly where your house sits on that scale is most of the diagnosis, which is why the age of the building is the first question we ask.
- Under ten years old: settlement. Fine cracks at window and door corners as the house finds its footing. Normal, and cheap to seal properly.
- Ten to twenty-five years: the seals start going. Sealant around windows hardens and shrinks, and water begins getting past joints while the stucco itself still looks fine.
- Twenty-five years and up: the finish reaches the end of its first service life. Weathering, crazing, accumulated cracks, and previous repairs that have started to fail at their edges.
Repair, repaint, or both
Homeowners often call about paint when the problem is stucco, and occasionally the reverse.
Looks like paint, is stucco
Paint that is bubbling or peeling on a stucco wall is usually not a paint failure at all; it is moisture behind the finish pushing the coating off, and repainting it will fail again within a season.
Genuinely just paint
A wall that has been properly repaired but is patchy in color genuinely does just need paint.
We will tell you which one you are looking at, because those are very different invoices.
On most walls, no. Texture matching is what makes a patch blend rather than announce itself. On a heavily weathered or hand-worked finish, a repaint of the elevation is sometimes the only route to a fully uniform result, and we will say so at the estimate.
Settling and the daily temperature and humidity swings of Central Florida, plus moisture where water finds a way in.
Yes. We keep the work area tidy and leave the site clean.
Yes. We prepare the repaired area so it is ready for paint.
Yes, on-site and with no obligation. If the honest answer is that your wall can wait, we will say so.
Often, yes. A photo will usually give us a good steer on whether you are looking at a surface crack or something that has been taking water. It is a steer rather than a diagnosis - what is behind a wall does not photograph - so the answer, and the price, still need someone to see it.
We will agree access with you at the estimate, so you know before we start rather than after.
Raise it at the estimate. If something has to be moved to reach a wall, we would rather tell you beforehand than surprise you.
Yes. If a crack is dry and stable and can reasonably wait, we will say so. We would rather you called us back next year than felt sold to this year.
When the building is moving rather than the finish. A crack that keeps widening, steps through the block courses, is mirrored on an interior wall, or arrived alongside doors and windows that stopped closing is a structural engineer's question, and it has to be answered before anyone repairs the stucco. We will tell you if that is what we are looking at. The full boundary is on our stucco crack repair page.
Living with the work
A stucco repair on an occupied home is disruptive in small ways rather than large ones.
- NoiseWhile the damaged area is opened up.
- Dust
- A wall that looks worseThere will be a period where part of your wall looks considerably worse than it did before we arrived. That is normal, and it is the point.
We tell you at the start roughly how long you are looking at, so you are not guessing.
Get a free home stucco estimate
Keep your home's exterior sound and looking right. Call (407) 456-2006 or (863) 398-3871 or get a free estimate. Insured, more than 15 years in Central Florida, and rated 4.8 stars across 48 Google reviews.