Stucco Ceiling Repairs

Stucco has a twofold benefit to it. Stucco will hide imperfections in the ceiling this would probably be the biggest benefit  and secondly as a decorative process.

I get a lot of calls asking if I could remove the stucco from the ceiling. And yes of course I can, but things for me to consider to remove the stucco is what condition the drywall on the ceiling is, whether it was plastered with a finish plastering coat, or, just a rough coat.

Another consideration is whether the ceiling has been painted or not before?

If the ceiling has been painted  you  can’t scrape it off just by  soaking it with water.

Because one is just  bare  stucco it will soak easily and get soft and come off very nicely with  a scraper.

This is a very  messy job and you get a lot of scrapings on the floor. And with all this wet scraping on the floor your shoes are going to get  soiled and packed on with tons of  gookie  stucco on the bottom. So   you better have a  covered path all the way out of to where you will need to go so don’t get any stucco on your floors. Once you’ve got the ceiling all scraped off you have to examine  it for drywall imperfections and of course repair these imperfections.

And when the imperfections are plastered you’ll have to lightly sand the repairs smooth to the ceiling.

And then of coarse you can paint it then!

 There are many reasons to call someone for a  stucco repair.

One and the most common would be a water leak that stained the ceiling and even possibly had damaged the ceiling.

Two the ceiling had scratches in it.

Three the ceiling looks tired  and needs be freshened  up