Paint over a cracked stucco wall and you buy the crack back.
We carry stucco and carpentry repair in house, so the wall gets fixed before a drop of finish goes on it rather than being someone else's callback.
An old town with old walls
Tarpon Springs has been here far longer than the subdivisions south of it, and the housing shows it. Masonry and stucco going back to the twenties around the sponge docks and the historic streets, mid century block through the middle of town, and newer stucco out toward East Lake and the Anclote line.
Older stucco has usually been coated many times, and somewhere in that stack there is often a layer that has quietly given up. If the top coat is peeling off in sheets rather than chalking evenly, the problem sits underneath it, and putting more paint on top achieves nothing at all.
So an estimate here involves more looking than a newer house does. We check for chalk, find where the coating is lifting, test the caulk at every opening, and look hard at the fascia and soffit, because those are what fail first on a building of this age.
- Every elevation walked and the cracking marked before we quote
- Failing layers found before a price is put on anything
- Cracks opened, filled, textured to match and sealed
- Repairs primed before any finish coat
- Repair priced separately from painting on the estimate
How a crack gets fixed here
The crack gets opened up first. Running filler over a tight hairline leaves a thin skin with nothing to hold onto and it splits again along the same line in the first hot week. Opening it out gives the material a shape to key into.
Then it is filled, cut back level and textured to match the wall around it. Walls in this town carry knockdown, sand finish, dash and a few things that have no name, and a smooth patch on a textured wall is visible from the sidewalk even after it has been painted. Matching the texture is the part that takes the skill.
One customer described our work as top notch in the details for repairing and matching the original appearance, and said the price was reasonable for a job that needed no corrections afterwards. Matching is exactly where a repair either disappears or announces itself for the next ten years.
The river, the bayous and the damp side
Water is everywhere in this town. The Anclote River, the bayous winding inland and the Gulf a short way west all keep the humidity up, and lots that back onto water hold damp on the shaded side long after everything else has dried.
That is mildew country. The black speckling on a soffit and the green low on a north wall are alive, and coating over them feeds them. They come off with a cleaner that kills the growth at a pressure the wall can take, and the wall then gets time to dry before anything goes on it.
Closer to the water there is salt in the mix as well, and it works on a coating the same way it does down in Clearwater. A rinse that genuinely takes salt out of the surface matters more than people expect, and it costs almost nothing while the equipment is already out.
Getting a price in Tarpon Springs
Call (727) 744-3232 or send the form and we will come and walk it with you. The estimate is free and it separates the stucco and carpentry repair from the painting, so you can see exactly what each part costs on a house that needs both.
If some of it can wait, we will say so. On an older building it is often smarter to repair and seal everything now and paint one elevation later than to spread thin paint over all of it at once.
Cracking on a Tarpon Springs wall?
Send a photo and we will tell you what it is.
What 404 homeowners said
Every quote below is a real review, word for word, from our Google profile.
We recently hired Sunrise Quality Painting, Inc. to repair and paint our ceilings a flat white as you could see blemishes and the seams from when we first removed the popcorn ceiling before we moved in, plus we’d moved some fixtures in the ceiling that needed patched. We also asked to add the repainting of our kitchen after doing a whole remodel last year. We couldn’t be happier with the results!
I had a great experience with Nick and Sunrise Quality Painting! They painted my condo bathroom, and I was super happy with how it turned out. What stood out the most was the attention to detail. Nick took his time to make sure everything looked great, and the finished result turned out awesome.
Several years ago I had Nick remove wallpaper from my main living quarters he then spackled and painted to perfection. I just had him back again this week with his crew to paint the exterior of my home. He's scraped plastered sanded and painted again to perfection. He also did my driveway. Nick is kind honest and perfectionist I highly recommend him
Nick was referred to me by one of my neighbors, and I’m really glad that I contacted him and hired him! Nick and his crew were professional, neat and courteous. Their cleanup was immaculate and they took all of their brushes rollers, etc. home with them to clean so there was no mess at my house!
Nick and his crew were very professional. I had them change a color for me on my shutters because I didn’t like it after they were painted. Nick told me no problem and changed it. They did a fantastic job pressure washing, caulking and sealing before they painted. The job was completed in 4 1/2 days even with the color change.
From Nick, the owner, to his crew, they have been a professional and helpful group of quality-oriented contractor in the Tampa Bay area. Their work has been top-notch in the details for repairing and matching the original appearance and the quality level. Their price certainly was not the cheapest, but it was reasonable, especially for the quality of work performed without having the need for corrections.
Free written estimate in Tarpon Springs, repair priced apart from paint.
A crack that was opened, filled, textured and sealed holds far longer than one that was coated over. Houses keep moving, so nobody honest will promise you never see another one.
Usually very close. Knockdown, sand and dash are all matchable by hand. The hardest one to hide is a repair in the middle of a big flat wall in full sun, and we will say up front how close we expect to get.
No. Peeling in sheets means a layer underneath has failed, so anything new goes on top of something already letting go. That has to come off first and we will tell you how much of it.
Yes. Older masonry and stucco is normal work for us, and it is the kind of wall where the repair matters more than the color does.
Repair shows as its own line on the estimate so you can see what it costs. It happens before the coating either way, because it is the part that decides how long the paint lasts.
Yes. Newer stucco is usually a first or second repaint over builder paint, which is straightforward work when the preparation is done properly.
Get a free estimate.
Tell us what needs painting. We will come and look at it and put a real number on it.