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Stucco Repair
Restore cracked, chipped, and weathered stucco with texture-matched repairs and breathable high-desert coatings built to last.
SEAMLESS STUCCO RESTORATION
Repairing & Protecting Stucco Against High-Desert Extremes.
In the high-desert basin, 40-degree daily temperature swings, foundation settling, dry winds, and winter freeze-thaw cycles take a constant toll on stucco exteriors. Left untreated, hairline expansion cracks, woodpecker holes, and separation around windows or parapet walls allow snowmelt and rain to seep behind the surface—leading to bubbling, flaking, and stucco delamination. Whether your home needs targeted crack patching, scratch coat and delamination repair, or a full exterior repaint, our in-house craftsmen blend every repair into your existing stucco profile for a clean, uniform finish.
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Crack & Delamination Repair: Removing loose or delaminated stucco, filing hairline cracks, and repairing woodpecker or moisture damage. - ✓
Scratch Coat & Texture Blending: Rebuilding damaged base layers from the scratch coat out and blending the finish coat to match your existing stucco. - ✓
Breathable 100% Acrylic Coatings: Masonry priming and uniform spray-and-back-roll finish coats from Sherwin-Williams and PPG. - ✓
100% In-House Craftsmen: Clean masking, thorough site protection, and dependable execution by our full-time crew.
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The Kelly Brothers Process.
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On-Site Assessment
Our estimators visit your property for a meticulous on-site consultation, evaluating your home or business’s current condition and architectural details to build a precise, customized project plan.
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Customized Proposal
Receive a comprehensive digital proposal and a personalized video walk-through, providing complete transparency on your property’s current condition and the exact scope of work.
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Color Consultation
Collaborate with our color design team to curate a cohesive aesthetic and custom color palette that elevates your architecture, ensuring the correct premium finishes are hand-selected for your space.
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Flawless Finish
Experience a seamless transformation as our team executes your project with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring a pristine result that exceeds every expectation.
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100% In-House Craftsmen
Dedicated career painters you can trust.
With 20+ years serving the Reno–Tahoe community, we’ve grown a team that sticks with us — our painters average eight years at the company and are trained internally to the Kelly Brothers Standard. It’s the reason our work stays consistent, and our relationships last just as long.
98 Locally Employed Painting Professionals
100% In-House Craftsmen
Dedicated career painters you can trust.
With 20+ years serving the Reno–Tahoe community, we’ve grown a team that sticks with us — our painters average eight years at the company and are trained internally to the Kelly Brothers Standard. It’s the reason our work stays consistent, and our relationships last just as long.
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Award-Winning Execution.
Named the 2026 Top Job by the American Painting Contractor (APC) magazine, Kelly Brothers Painting is recognized nationally for our commitment to high-end finishes, complex problem-solving, and breathtaking results.
As proud members of the Painting Contractors Association (PCA), we hold ourselves to the highest ethical and craftsmanship standards in the industry. When you work with us, you are partnering with proven experts.
Questions about Stucco Repair?
How does the high-desert climate damage exterior stucco over time?
Stucco in our high-desert climate mainly breaks down from 40-degree daily temperature swings, intense year-round UV exposure, and winter freeze-thaw cycles. As walls heat up during the day and drop below freezing at night, the stucco expands and contracts, creating hairline cracks around windows, doors, and rooflines. Once snowmelt or wind-driven rain gets behind those cracks and freezes, it expands and pushes the outer finish coat away from the underlying base layer—leading to bubbling, flaking, and stucco delamination.
How do you repair delaminated or cracked stucco?
It depends on the depth of the damage. For minor hairline cracks, we clean out loose debris and fill them with flexible masonry patching compound so water cannot get behind the wall. When stucco has delaminated, blistered, or hollowed out, caulking over the top won’t hold—we chip away the loose material back to solid backing, rebuild the damaged area from the scratch coat and brown coat out, and feather the new finish coat to blend as closely as possible with the surrounding wall before priming and painting.
What are the limits of stucco repair and will a patch be completely invisible?
We like to set realistic expectations upfront on two fronts: scope limits and visual blending. First, our in-house craftsmen handle localized stucco repairs, crack filling, woodpecker holes, and delamination patches alongside exterior painting—we are not a full-scale lath-and-plaster contractor for whole-home re-stuccoing or major structural framing and water-intrusion rebuilds. Second, while we carefully blend our patches to match your existing profile, repaired stucco has a fresh surface porosity and years less weathering than the surrounding wall. Spot-painting a patch will almost always leave a visible color or sheen halo due to sun fading, so painting corner-to-corner (or the full exterior) after priming is the best way to make repairs blend in.
Who will actually be working on my home, employees or subcontractors?
Every Kelly Brothers Painting crew consists of 100% in-house, full-time W-2 employees—never subcontractors. We employ 98 local painters across Reno and Tahoe with an average company tenure of 8 years. Having a consistent, year-round team licensed in both California (CA Lic. #822843) and Nevada (NV Lic. #68238) means the craftsmen prepping and staining your home are trained internally to the exact same Kelly Brothers Painting Standard as the estimator who walked your property.
What type of paint is best for sealing and protecting repaired stucco?
We apply breathable, high-build 100% acrylic exterior paint from Sherwin-Williams and PPG rather than thick elastomeric coatings. Stucco walls need to breathe so everyday household moisture vapor can escape safely. Non-breathable elastomeric films can trap moisture behind the coating, which then freezes in the winter and causes the paint and outer stucco layer to blister and delaminate in large sheets. Breathable 100% acrylic paint sheds rain and snowmelt from the outside while letting moisture vapor escape from within.
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