Stucco & Exterior in West Hills
Stucco in West Hills built to pass the LADBS lath inspection, for new ADUs, additions and re-stucco of the main house. Cedarline Design Build.
No plaster goes on a West Hills wall under permit until an LADBS inspector has signed off the lath stage. At that visit the inspector wants to see two layers of building paper lapped in the right order, lath fastened into the framing at the required spacing, flashing at each opening and a weep screed along the base. On a new ADU or addition, we build the schedule around that stop.
Plan check first, inspections after
Where a project needs drawings, as an ADU or an addition does, the plans go through plan check and any corrections are cleared before LADBS issues the permit. Field inspections follow once work starts: foundation and framing, then the lath inspection, then the final. A re-stucco of an existing house may run on a simpler permit with no drawings at all, yet the lath still has to pass before the brown coat. We keep the inspection card on site and request each visit when the work is ready for it.
Small details that decide a sign-off
Paper laps that run the wrong way at a window head send water behind the flashing. A weep screed set too close to grade, or buried by soil, cannot drain. Lath stapled only into sheathing, never reaching the studs, can work loose under the weight of the coats. Each of these is cheap to correct while the wall is open and expensive once plaster hides it, so we walk every wall ourselves before calling for the inspector, on the main house and on a new unit alike.
Stucco & Exterior in West Hills: common questions
With planning, yes. The house's finish is sampled, the color coat is mixed to match it, and test panels are troweled in the same texture for you to approve dry. A West Hills unit that sits apart in the yard can match the main house closely. An attached unit ties into the original plaster at a corner or joint, which keeps the transition from showing.
Each option fits a different wall. Patching handles a few fine cracks in plaster that is dry and bonded. Recoating covers a sound wall that has faded or carries patches in mismatched shades. New stucco is for sections where tapping, meter readings or a test opening show failed lath, paper or flashing. One house can need all three, wall by wall.
LADBS decides for West Hills properties. Repainting or recoating sound stucco usually needs no permit. Removing plaster to the framing, replacing lath and paper, or building ADU and addition walls does, and the lath has to pass inspection before any plaster goes up. We confirm the path with LADBS first and note it in the quote.
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