Stucco Contractor Serving Hobe Sound, FL

Two Very Different Kinds of Property

On one side of Hobe Sound there are large estate properties with custom exteriors, hand applied finishes and architectural detail that was drawn rather than picked from a catalog. On the other there are modest older homes, many of them decades old, where the owner needs sound repair at a fair price and does not need anything exotic.

We take both kinds of work and we do not try to sell one as the other. On an estate property the finish work drives the cost and the schedule. On an older modest home the priority is stopping water and getting the wall back into service without inflating the scope. Confusing the two is how homeowners end up with a bid that does not fit the house.

Coastal Exposure in Southern Martin County

Hobe Sound is close enough to the ocean that salt is a real factor, and homes nearer the water get it hardest. Salt sits on the wall, holds moisture, and works on any exposed metal it can reach. Sealant joints dry and open faster than they would inland, and coatings chalk sooner.

The elevations facing the water almost always run ahead of the rest of the house in wear. We assess each side separately for that reason. It is common for one exposed wall to need real repair while the sheltered sides only need cleaning and a coat, and pricing the house as one uniform scope usually gets that wrong in one direction or the other.

• Salt driven coating breakdown on the exposed elevations
• Sealant joints hardening and pulling away at window and door perimeters
• Corrosion staining bleeding through from embedded or fastened metal
• Wind driven rain forcing water through cracks that would shed it inland

Custom Finish Work on Estate Properties

Higher end exteriors here often use finishes that cannot be sprayed on. Smooth troweled and burnished surfaces, lime based finishes, heavy Old World and Santa Barbara textures, and hand worked detail around openings. Each one has a different working time and a different technique, and each is unforgiving of a rushed hand.

These finishes are also the hardest to repair invisibly, because the character comes from the applicator rather than the product. Before we finish a repair we work up a match on a sample panel against the actual wall and get your sign off on it. Where a repair genuinely will not disappear into an existing hand finish, we say so and price the elevation instead of promising something the material will not do.

Detail elements need the same care. Banding, sills, columns, arched openings and applied trim have to be rebuilt to the original profile. Filling a damaged band instead of reforming it leaves a flat spot that shows in every low sun angle along the whole run.

Repair and Recoating on Older Homes

The older housing stock in Hobe Sound needs a different conversation. Some of these homes have decades of accumulated coating on them, patches from several different eras, and stucco that has debonded in places. The goal is a durable exterior, not a showpiece.

We sound the walls, mark the hollow areas, and separate the work into what has to be done now and what can wait. That gives you a scope you can phase if you want to. Plenty of homeowners handle the failing elevation this year and the rest later, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as the water is stopped first.

Working on Occupied and Gated Properties

Much of the work we do in Hobe Sound is on occupied homes, and some of it is behind gates or on properties with access procedures, landscaping crews and other trades already on a schedule. That is a coordination problem as much as a construction one.

We handle it by settling access, staging and working hours before the first day rather than during it. Crews protect landscaping, hardscape, pool decks and windows, and we clean the site at the end of each day instead of at the end of the job. On a property where the grounds are part of the value, leaving a mess is a failure even if the stucco is right.

• Access, gate codes and working hours confirmed before mobilization
• Landscaping, pool decks and hardscape masked and protected
• Daily cleanup rather than one cleanup at the end
• Coordination with other trades already scheduled on the property