Stucco Repair Cost Calculator

Pick what the wall is doing and roughly how much of it, and this gives you the range from the published price list. No email, no gate, no sales call to get a number.

Two honest notes.

On patching and parapet work, the range firms up when the wall is opened. What decides the price is what is behind the stucco: sound paper and lath, or rusted lath and deteriorated paper, or in the worst cases framing that has been wet for years. Nobody can tell you that from a photograph, and a contractor who quotes a firm patching number sight unseen is either padding it or about to have a difficult conversation.

Matching is a real line item. Stucco colour changes with years of New Mexico sun, so a patch mixed to the original colour reads as newer than the wall around it. Matching the weathered colour and the texture is craft work. On a front elevation, the cleanest answer is sometimes a fog coat across the whole elevation rather than the patch alone, and that is a cost worth deciding on before the work rather than after.

What each answer changes

• The problem is most of the price, and the range spans from a $200 crack repair to a five-figure restucco. If you are not sure which you have, the cracks page and the hollow stucco page walk through the checks you can do with a knuckle and a fingernail.
• Area moves the total and improves the per-foot rate. Whole-house work is priced per square foot rather than as a repair.
• Access is time. Two-story work needs staging or a lift, and a tight side yard with landscaping to protect takes longer than an open wall.
• Matching is the difference between a repair you can see from the street and one you cannot.

Before you spend anything, find the cause

The most expensive stucco mistake in this metro is repairing the symptom while the cause keeps working. On a house here, the usual causes are:

A failed parapet or cap letting water into the top of the wall. That is the single most common source of delaminated stucco below it, and the parapet page covers it.

A canale discharging down the wall or leaking at its flashing.

Drainage, either grade running toward the house or irrigation hitting the wall.

Structural movement, which a diagonal crack from a window corner or a stair-step pattern will tell you about.

Filling a crack whose cause is still active means filling it again. Any quote we give includes an opinion about the cause, and the restucco and coating calculator prices the whole-house options if the answer is that the finish has simply reached the end of its life.