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Stucco repair season is quickly arriving!

  Spring is coming and we are starting to get out and look at peoples homes for stucco repair, stucco painting, and parging. Calls are coming in for woodpecker holes, snow shovel damages, parging repairs, and flaking paint. Is this something on your mind? Most stucco damages are superficial but sometimes we can find leaking issues, breakdown in the building envelope, and other mishaps that comes with Canada's ever changing climate. If you give us a call we can come out and give you a free estimate on the work you need done. That way you can focus on that manicured lawn, or prized rose bush!

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'           Over the last 15 year that I have been doing stucco repair, I have found many issues. But over the last year or two I have been noticing a tend in a whole new direction. Sloppy, careless, and insulting work practices.            Over the next few blogs ill be exposing some of the things we have found during stucco inspections and repair estimates.            This picture is from one of our great clients that was taken advantage of by a window company. The stucco was cut back on the window and new window installed. After completing the window installation, the installer hid his damages instead of fixing them.            You can see in the picture there is raw lumber exposed under the window frame. Just below that is a layer of black paper covered with a wire. The problem here is the lack of building envelope. where that raw lumber is exposed i...