Stucco & Exterior in Burbank
New ADU walls, recoats and stucco repair in Burbank, built around lapped paper, flashing and a clear weep screed that let water out. Cedarline Design Build.
Shingle-lapped building paper is what keeps a Burbank stucco wall dry, each upper sheet laid over the one beneath so water that soaks through the plaster runs down its face and never reaches the sheathing. At the base, that water leaves through a weep screed. On a new ADU, an addition or a re-stucco of the main house, we draw the drainage path first and choose the texture second.
Where water gets in
Trouble tends to start wherever the wall is interrupted. A window head needs flashing tucked under the paper above it, a roof edge meeting a wall needs a kickout to throw runoff clear, and every pipe or light box that pierces the plaster needs sealant and a lapped patch of paper behind it. Down at grade, the screed needs a gap of 4 inches to soil, or 2 inches to a patio slab, so its weep holes stay open. Sprinkler heads aimed at the wall get turned or moved before any new coat goes on.
Matching a unit to the house
A detached unit, an attached addition and a garage conversion each meet the main house differently. The detached one only needs to look related, so its texture and color are sampled from the house and repeated. An attached room shares a wall line, and the joint between old and new plaster is placed at a corner or a control joint where it will not draw the eye. A converted garage keeps most of its existing stucco, so the work there is clean infill where the door stood and a recoat of whole walls.
Stucco & Exterior in Burbank: common questions
It can come very close. We sample the main house's texture at a hidden spot and mix trial patches of the color coat, which you approve dry, since stucco reads darker while damp. A detached Burbank unit only needs to agree with the house at a glance, while an attached one is finished out to an outside corner so the two surfaces meet at an edge.
Fine cracks on a firmly bonded wall need only a patch and a new color coat. Where a knock with the knuckles gives back a dull, empty sound, or a stain returns after every rain, the bond or the paper behind it has failed, and that area is cut back for new lath and coats. A full recoat suits sound walls that are faded or carry mixed shades.
A ruling from the City of Burbank building division settles it. A color coat over sound plaster is often treated as maintenance, while stripping to the framing and installing new paper and lath is usually permitted work, inspected before the coats go on. Stucco on a new ADU or addition rides on that project's own permit. We confirm the answer with the city before the quote is final.
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