Full home · Palm Bay, FL
Full-home re-stucco in Palm Bay
A Palm Bay pool-side wall came to us as bare concrete block. We masked everything off, pulled a wet scratch coat over the block, and finished it out in a clean smooth knockdown. Bare CMU to finished stucco in one job.
Service performed: Remodels & Re-Stucco
Where we work: Stucco repair in Palm Bay
Blue paper goes on before anything wet does
In the first photograph the window is wrapped in turquoise masking paper, the header over the wide opening is papered right across, and the bottom corners of the block are taped off where they meet the slab. All of that happens before a trowel of material moves.
It pays for itself twice over. Cement that lands on glass, on a frame, on a deck or in water is somebody's scraping job afterwards, and a coat finished up against clean paper leaves a straight line at the frame instead of a wandering one.
Bare block, and the grid that has to disappear
In the before shot you can count every course and every head joint in the wall. That grid is the thing a job on fresh block exists to bury. Material spread thin follows the joints and telegraphs them back through the finish the first time the sun gets low on the wall.
So it goes on in coats rather than one heavy pass — enough body to take the joints out of the plane, worked straight before anything textured goes near it. Nobody sees the coat that does most of that work.
Why the wall looks dark in two of these shots
Both the mid-job frame and the finished one show a wall several shades darker than where it ends up. Cement wet and cement dry are two different colours, and this one went on under grey, damp air.
That is the right way round. A slow set is what the material wants. Drying wind and direct heat pull water out of a fresh wall faster than the cement can use it, and that — not humidity — is the thing worth scheduling around here. Judging colour on the day it went on is how people talk themselves into a problem that is not there.
Where the finish is supposed to stop
Three edges on this wall decide whether it reads as built or bodged. The window sits in a shallow border where the coat returns to the frame. The wide opening needs the finish carried into the reveal so the corner stays square from any angle. And the bottom has to die cleanly at the deck — low enough to look right, not so low it sits in standing water.
Terminations are where a finish takes its damage as well as where it shows its workmanship, so none of the three is a place to hurry.
Cracked, bulging, or just looks tired?
Send a photo or have Tony come take a look. The estimate is free.