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Real ranges for the jobs we do most around Ventura Boulevard — published up front, then confirmed in a written estimate after we see your walls.
| Service | Typical Cost (2026) | What's Included |
|---|---|---|
| Stucco crack repairOne elevation, hairline to 1/4" | $350 – $1,200 | Crack routing, bonding agent, patch, texture blend, and touch-up paint.Most single-elevation visits land near $500. |
| Stucco repair — patch & blendDamage up to roughly 40 sq ft | $500 – $3,000 | Tear-out of failed material, lath repair, two-coat patch, texture match, primer. |
| Water damage / remediationFailed flashing, dry rot, leaks | $3,000 – $8,000+ | Tear-off to framing, dry rot replacement, new building paper and lath, three-coat rebuild, finish coat. |
| New three-coat installationPriced per sq ft of wall area | $9 – $17 / sq ft | Building paper, lath, scratch, brown, and finish coats with your choice of texture. |
| Re-stucco over existing stuccoSound substrate only | $7 – $14 / sq ft | Surface prep, bonding, two-coat build, texture and finish coat. |
| Stucco paintingElastomeric or premium acrylic | $2.50 – $5.50 / sq ft | Wash, patch, prime, and two finish coats.Typical Sherman Oaks house: $4,500 – $9,500. |
| Wood-to-stucco siding conversionFire-wise cladding upgrade | $10 – $19 / sq ft | Wood removal, fire-resistant assembly, lath, three coats, finish. |
| Popcorn / stucco ceiling removalScrape or skim, then paint | $2 – $4.50 / sq ft | Containment, removal or skim-coat, repairs, prime, and ceiling paint.$600 – $2,400 per average room. |
Ranges reflect 2026 material and labor costs for Sherman Oaks work. Every project gets a line-item written estimate before a crew is scheduled. Full math lives in the Stucco Cost Guide.
Below the Boulevard the lots climb into the Santa Monica Mountains foothills. Staging, scaffolding, and hand-carried materials add real hours to a job, and that lands in the labor line — itemized, never buried.
A 3,000 sq ft two-story elevation needs more staging than a single-story ranch. Bigger homes aren't pricier per square foot — there are simply more square feet of wall to build, coat, and finish.
North of Ventura, most homes are postwar ranch tracts with hand-troweled textures nobody manufactures anymore. Blending a patch into a 60-year-old finish is craft work — and the top reason cheap patches age badly.
Every card carries the range we actually quote in Sherman Oaks. Full breakdowns live in the Cost Guide.
Cracked, hollow, or water-damaged sections opened up, rebuilt, and blended into the surrounding texture — with the price confirmed before tools come out.
$500 – $3,000 typicalSettlement cracks from the hills, thermal cracks from Valley heat, and the hairline shrinkage every stucco home eventually shows. Diagnosed before patched.
$350 – $1,200Full three-coat application for estates, additions, and remodels — paper, lath, scratch, brown, finish — with per-square-foot pricing you can check against our table.
$9 – $17 per sq ftElastomeric and premium acrylic systems built for UV-heavy walls. Seals hairline cracking and resets the look of sun-baked elevations at a fraction of re-stucco cost.
$2.50 – $5.50 per sq ftWood-to-stucco conversion and stucco cladding repairs — a noncombustible upgrade that shrinks maintenance and suits hillside fire-wise exteriors.
$10 – $19 per sq ftPopcorn and stucco ceiling removal with proper containment, then a smooth or lightly textured finish ready for paint. Testing arranged for pre-1978 homes.
$2 – $4.50 per sq ftThree factors explain most of the spread between a $500 call and an $8,000 project in this neighborhood.
Ventura Boulevard is a genuine dividing line for stucco work. North of it, most homes are postwar ranch tracts — one-story layouts from the 1950s and 1960s sitting on flat lots with straightforward truck access. South of it, the neighborhood climbs into the Santa Monica Mountains, and streets through the Sherman Oaks Hills, Beverly Glen, and Coldwater Canyon area serve larger, often two-story homes on graded lots. Same trade, same materials, very different labor math.
Heat is the second factor. Valley summers drive wall-surface temperatures far past the air temperature, and every one of those heating and cooling cycles hardens and shrinks older finishes a little more. Add Santa Ana winds funneled through the Sepulveda Pass and the surrounding canyons — they carry grit that abrades paint and push rain sideways into elevations that rarely see sun — and it's clear why exteriors here age faster than they do closer to the ocean.
Third: texture and finish decide how much craft time a job needs. Plenty of homes north of Ventura still carry hand-troweled textures from the decade they were built, and blending a patch into a 60-year-old finish is the difference between a repair you forget and one you notice every time you pull into the driveway. We price that matching work up front instead of springing it as a change order.
Straight numbers, local crews, and warranty terms written in plain English.
Flatland ranch tracts and hillside estates are different jobs. Across 1,800+ completed homes in the Valley, the crew that shows up at yours has already worked your kind of wall.
The tables on this site are the same ranges we quote. Your written estimate breaks out labor, materials, access, and finish so every dollar has an explanation.
Repairs typically close in 1–3 working days and full installs run 5–10. You get a start date in writing and one crew that stays on the job until it's finished.
Every completed project comes with paperwork that states exactly what's covered and who to call. If something we installed fails inside the term, we come back and fix it.
The estimator who walks your property stays reachable through the entire project. No hand-off to whichever subcontractor happens to be free that week.
Homeowners from Sherman Oaks to Encino and Studio City keep pointing neighbors our way. The badge up top shows the rating — the reviews behind it are the reason for it.
Four steps, with the price agreed before a single wall is touched.
Call (818) 555-0103 or send the form. A few phone photos speed things up. We book Sherman Oaks inspections within 48 hours.
We inspect the wall assembly — not just the surface — then leave a line-item estimate that maps our published ranges to your square footage.
Only after you approve the scope. Materials arrive staged, landscaping gets protected, and the crew works the days we committed to.
We walk the finished work with you, close any punch-list items that week, and hand over the warranty documents. Payment is due when you're satisfied.
Our crews work the Ventura Boulevard corridor daily: the hillside neighborhoods below it and the flatland tracts north of it.
The pricing and scheduling questions we hear most from Sherman Oaks homeowners.
More questions? The full FAQ page covers texture matching, warranties, ceilings, and scheduling.
Free on-site estimates across Sherman Oaks, usually within 48 hours of your call.
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