St. George Elite Stucco: Residential & Commercial Stucco Contractor in St. George, Utah

St. George Elite Stucco is a licensed and insured local stucco contractor that has worked on residential and commercial properties in St. George, Utah for 15 years. When a wall has failed, our work is stucco repair, stucco remediation, or full stucco replacement and removal. When the wall is sound but the exterior looks tired, you need resurfacing and recoating, stucco painting and coatings, or decorative and architectural details. We also handle new work, including stucco installation, new construction stucco, block walls, and interior plastering. Our clients include homeowners, property managers, and builders.

What sits behind the plaster determines how your wall handles water, so one-coat stucco, traditional three-coat stucco, and drainage EIFS, an exterior insulation and finish system, must be treated as separate wall systems. We hang the metal lath, the wire mesh the plaster grips, over two layers of water-resistive barrier, the house-wrap material that sheds water. A 1/4-inch furring gap holds the lath off the wall so the plaster can push through the mesh and lock behind it. At the bottom of the wall, a weep screed gives any water that gets in a path back out.

Recurring stucco damage usually starts in the drainage, flashing, lath, or water-resistive barrier behind the visible finish. Before we scope the job, we identify which system your wall is built from and inspect the damage. We then explain whether the wall calls for a localized repair, resurfacing, remediation, or full replacement. On a repair, we first match the texture and color on a sample panel so you can see the match before it goes on the house. An integrally colored acrylic finish and a mineral cement finish hold color through the coat itself.

We serve St. George, Washington City, Hurricane, Santa Clara, and other areas across Washington County. Call today or use our quote form for a free onsite estimate.

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Why Choose St. George Elite Stucco

Before work starts, you get clear answers about exactly what the proposed work covers. St. George Elite Stucco provides a written estimate that identifies the wall system, the proposed thickness, and the finish material. Our stucco experts go through all three with you before the job begins.

Credentials, Coverage, and How We Work

Before we work on your wall, you can verify our license and insurance coverage. We carry general liability and workers' compensation. Certificates are available before work starts, and our license number goes on every written estimate. We build the plaster to ASTM C926 and the lath to ASTM C1063. On three-coat work, that means going to the full nominal 7/8 inch rather than stopping short to save a pass. The weep screed and the drainage plane give any water that gets into the wall a way back out, and those details decide whether your wall sheds water for decades, so we hold them to the same standard as the plaster.

At a Glance

Licensed & Insured | 15 Years of Experience | Free Written Estimates | Residential & Commercial

How We Work With You

You get one point of contact from the first inspection through the last walkthrough, so you never have to re-explain the job to someone new. Before we show up, we confirm the dates and the work sequence with you. We also protect your windows, landscaping, and driveways before work starts, then clear the staging and debris when the job ends.

Call (435) 236-2699 or use our quote form to schedule a free on-site estimate.

Stucco Contractor Services in St. George and Washington County

Stucco tear-off exposing plywood sheathing and torn water-resistive barrier on a St. George home

Stucco Replacement & Removal

When your project calls for a tear-off to sheathing, you need to know the condition of the wall before it is covered again. We remove the existing lath and water-resistive barrier down to the sheathing, the structural boards over the framing, so we can inspect underneath. We check those boards for separating layers, staining, and corroded fasteners, then rebuild the assembly to IRC R703.7, the residential code section that governs exterior plaster. Because people are usually still living or working in these buildings, we estimate the debris volume and plan the containment and disposal routes around everyone using the building.

Stucco Installation

The performance of new stucco on an existing building depends on the complete exterior plaster assembly behind the finish. During stucco installation on framed walls, we hang metal lath over a doubled water-resistive barrier. We then set the metal trim that edges the work, including casing bead and corner aid at openings and corners, along with control joints, the planned breaks that let a wall move. Where the new work meets existing windows, doors, and roof edges, we rebuild those terminations rather than plastering up to what is there. The scaffold stays up until the finish has cured because pulling it early marks plaster that has not hardened.

New Construction Stucco

When a wall has never had an exterior finish, the sequence of new construction stucco matters as much as the plaster itself. We schedule around the framing, roofing, window installation, and flashing so each elevation, or each face of the building, is ready before plaster work begins. Builders can specify either an engineered one-coat base or a full three-coat assembly. On custom homes, phased developments, and multi-lot projects, you approve the color and texture elevation by elevation before our crews mobilize.

Fresh finish coat troweled over a faded wall during stucco resurfacing and recoating

Stucco Resurfacing & Recoating

Resurfacing runs from light to heavy, and the right level depends on how far the surface has gone. A fog coat is the lightest option and refreshes the color with a cement-based treatment. A new finish coat changes the surface more substantially, while a full re-skin adds a bonded plaster layer over the existing wall. All three take integral color.

Stucco Remediation

The wet area behind stucco is usually larger than the stained area you can see, so we map the affected areas with a moisture meter before setting the scope. The corrections can include a small diverter called kickout flashing, which sends roof runoff away from the wall, or sill pan flashing under a window. They can also include repairs to the layered path that carries water back out of the wall, known as the drainage plane. Where the weep screed clearance is short, we reset it to 4 inches above bare earth or 2 inches above paving.

Sprayer applying a breathable coating over a textured stucco wall

Stucco Painting & Coatings

Stucco painting changes the color of your wall without changing its thickness or texture. Before choosing a coating, we test for chalking, the powdery residue that can form on the surface, and check how alkaline the stucco still is. Because fresh cement stays alkaline enough to attack the wrong paint, we wash the wall and prime any bare or patched areas. Mineral paint and limewash remain vapor-permeable, allowing moisture to dry outward instead of pushing the coating off. An elastomeric coating gives you a thick, flexible film that bridges hairline cracks. A pigmented finish coat renews the stucco surface itself.

Two-coat stucco applied over a concrete block courtyard wall in Washington County

Stucco for Block Walls

Privacy and courtyard walls here often use a concrete masonry unit as the structural base. When the masonry is sound, it accepts a two-coat application because the block does the job that framed-wall lath would. Dense, painted, or sealed surfaces need bond preparation first, sometimes including a dash bond coat, a rough thrown layer that gives the plaster something to grip. A joint that gets plastered over will crack along its own line the first hot week, so we carry every control and expansion joint through the finish. Caps and copings shed water off the top, where a freestanding wall takes most of its weather.

Decorative stucco bands and window surrounds shaped on a warm-toned exterior wall

Decorative Stucco & Architectural Details

When you want bands, surrounds, or other details to project from the main wall, decorative stucco creates that depth. We cut rigid foam shape stock for bands, sills, stacked corner blocks called quoins, window surrounds, and column wraps. Each piece is then wrapped in a mesh-reinforced base coat so it takes plaster like the wall does. For arches and curved openings, we lay out the radius full size before cutting anything because a curve that is even slightly off shows from the street. The finish carries across the shape rather than stopping at its edge, which preserves the depth and shadow line.

Interior plastering, a smooth gypsum plaster coat troweled onto an interior wall

Plastering Services

Inside a building, interior plaster belongs to a different material family from the cement plaster outside, so it requires different products and a different hand. We apply full-thickness gypsum and lime plaster, along with veneer plaster over blueboard, a gypsum panel faced for plaster. A veneer coat runs 1/16 to 1/8 inch and creates a hard, continuous surface with no seams showing through. On older wood lath walls, we restore the plaster keys, the ridges that grip the lath. Any of these surfaces can take a smooth, sand, or knockdown finish; knockdown is splattered on and then troweled flat.

Routing out a stucco crack before filling it with elastomeric sealant

Stucco Repair

A hairline crack may come from shrinkage or continued movement, and the cause determines how the repair should be made. We start by working out which type you have. A shrinkage crack can be filled, while a crack that is still moving gets routed out and filled with elastomeric sealant. The sealant stays flexible so the joint can keep working without splitting the patch open again. A bonding agent then ties the patch into the sound base around it. We rebuild the thickness with a mix compatible with your existing wall so the repair does not sit higher than the surrounding finish.

Benefits of Stucco

Your exterior walls need to handle desert conditions without demanding much from you year after year. Stucco is a wall cladding made from portland cement, sand, and water, applied over metal lath. Because it goes on wet, it follows arches, curves, and shapes that rigid panels simply cannot. It also takes most textures and integral colors during application. The cement exterior is inorganic, so it does not rot or attract termites, and it is fire-resistant within an approved assembly. When the wall is detailed and drained correctly, it needs little year-to-year attention. Desert houses have long used hard mineral exteriors in light colors, and stucco gives you the hard mineral surface and the light color in one material.

On a hot afternoon, the mass of a stucco wall slows the movement of heat toward your living space. Stucco does not resist heat the way rated insulation does. Instead, it absorbs heat and gives it back slowly, so the afternoon peak reaches the inside of the wall late and flattened. The insulating value still comes from the assembly behind the plaster or from an EIFS system built to provide it. The same density damps airborne sound, so less traffic and equipment noise carries through than it does with hollow panel cladding. Because plaster goes on as one continuous coat rather than being hung in pieces, an elevation has no lap seams or butt joints running across it. The wall still needs control joints, but we choose where they run.

Stucco Systems and Finishes

You are really making three separate choices here: the wall system, the number of cement coats, and the finish material. Keeping them separate matters because local use of “synthetic stucco” can loosely include any acrylic product, so the name a wall goes by does not always describe the assembly underneath it. Part of our job is telling you which assembly you actually have.

One-Coat Stucco

For a new home, addition, garage, or casita, one-coat stucco gives you a cement system that installs faster than a three-coat wall. It uses an engineered, fiber-reinforced cement base in place of the two base layers that a three-coat wall builds up separately. The base runs 3/8 to 1/2 inch. Despite the shorter build, one-coat stucco is a cement system rather than a synthetic one, and it takes either a cement or an acrylic finish.

Traditional Three-Coat Stucco

When your project needs a heavier assembly, traditional three-coat stucco builds a full hard-coat wall over metal lath. It goes on in three passes: a scratch coat keyed into the lath, a brown coat that levels the wall, and a finish coat. Residential code calls for three coats over lath as the standard assembly. One-coat systems are allowed as an approved alternative, each under its own evaluation report, the code-approval document for that specific product. The heavier assembly suits custom homes, remodels, additions, and heavy-use walls, along with repairs that continue an existing three-coat wall.

Mesh-reinforced base coat troweled over insulation board in an EIFS synthetic stucco assembly

EIFS and Synthetic Stucco

EIFS shows up most on commercial and multifamily buildings, on energy-efficient construction, and on architectural shapes. It is a complete insulated cladding assembly rather than an acrylic finish over ordinary cement plaster. EIFS layers a water-resistive barrier, insulation board, a mesh-reinforced base, and an acrylic finish coat. On framed walls, installers have to use EIFS with drainage because a sealed version of the same system traps any water that gets behind it.

Acrylic stucco finish troweled over a prepared base coat

Acrylic Stucco Finishes

Under the St. George sun, a finish that holds its color and flexes better than many cement finishes can make a meaningful difference to your exterior. Acrylic stucco is that finish material rather than a wall system. It goes over an approved base: a one-coat base, a brown coat, traditional three-coat stucco, masonry, or EIFS. Homes here often pair hard-coat stucco with an acrylic finish, and the resulting combination is still cement stucco rather than EIFS.

Stucco Textures and Colors

The texture is the visible surface your wall ends up with, so it can change the appearance without changing the system behind it. Your choices include smooth, sand, lace, dash, and skip-trowel. Smooth and sand are what they sound like. Lace lays down a soft mottled pattern, dash goes on pebbly, and skip-trowel drags flat islands of plaster across a rougher base.

How the color is carried through the finish determines what you see when the surface gets chipped or scraped. A mineral cement finish gives you the classic hard exterior, and iron oxide pigment carries the color through the coat itself, so the same color shows underneath. A pigmented coating changes the color at the surface instead. When we match existing work, the result comes down to the aggregate size, the pressure on the tool, and the pattern the applicator works in.

Which Service Does Your Stucco Need?

The same crack can point to any of four stucco services, and the cause and extent of the crack decide which one. Our stucco experts inspect the wall before we quote you a number. A hairline crack in an otherwise sound elevation is usually just a repair. A crack that keeps coming back where the wall has already been patched is a different problem, because it usually means something behind the finish is moving or holding water.

Repair: Isolated Cracks and Damaged Areas

An isolated crack, a hole left by an old satellite mount, a chipped corner, or a small failed patch can usually be handled with a repair because the damage stays local. Of the four scopes, a repair has the smallest work area, so it is also the least disruptive to you. As long as the wall around the damage is still sound, repairing that area beats resurfacing or replacing the whole elevation.

Resurfacing: Sound Walls That Look Tired

Sun-bleached color, uneven patches from past work, a chalky finish, or a texture that dates the house can all indicate that only the surface has worn out. When the assembly behind it is still fine, resurfacing is the right call, and the work stays on the outside of the wall. Because partial recoating can remain visibly different, resurfacing is often completed across an entire elevation.

Remediation: Recurring Failures and Hidden Moisture

A stain that returns each spring, a corner that cracks a year after the last repair, or a soft spot that spreads can mean an area that was already patched has failed a second time. Remediation is the answer because the source of the problem still needs to be corrected. The scope starts with finding the path the water is taking, and the patching comes after.

Stucco contractor applying a terracotta finish coat to a St. George home exterior

Replacement: Walls Past Saving

Widespread deterioration, failed concealed materials, or repeated localized repairs that are no longer economical can make replacement worth considering. It is the only scope that takes the finish off and exposes the water-resistive barrier and the lath. Anything that has failed back there gets rebuilt rather than covered, and the wall comes back as a new assembly.

For an on-site inspection, call (435) 236-2699 or use our quote form.

Common Stucco Problems in St. George

Most homeowners recognize that something has visibly changed in their residential stucco before they know the trade name for it. A crack, stain, bulge, or rough patch gives you a useful starting point, but it does not decide what failed or how much work the wall needs.

Cracks and separation can appear as a hairline crack under 1/16 inch, a widening line, or an open gap around a corner, window, or door.
Loose areas may feel hollow, bow outward, or show the finish coat visibly lifting away from the layers behind it, a condition called delamination.
Holes and impact damage include punctures, chips, and crushed spots near doors or where ladders, equipment, or hail have struck the surface.
Fading and discoloration can show as uneven color across one elevation, persistent staining, or chalking that leaves a powdery residue on the wall.
Damaged corners and edges often expose bent metal trim, the corner aid or casing bead, under the finish.
Failed older patches may sit proud of the surrounding wall, crack around their edges, or reveal poor texture matching in direct sunlight.

One visible symptom can come from several different conditions, and two houses on the same street can show an identical hairline crack for unrelated reasons. Before deciding what kind of stucco repair the wall needs, we look first at the whole elevation, the corners, and the trim details. A hairline crack and a bulging panel are different stucco repair jobs, even when both start as a phone call about cracks.

Peeling and spalling stucco showing finish failure on an older wall

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Residential and Commercial Stucco Projects

Whether the stucco is going on a home or a commercial building changes the schedule, site access, and number of approvals involved in your project. Residential stucco projects generally fall into two categories: maintaining an existing exterior, or applying stucco to new construction. Commercial work uses the same systems and finishes, but on a different schedule and with more people to coordinate. We plan and estimate the two differently because those practical demands are what actually change between them.

Homes and Additions

A wall failure, an aging exterior, or plans to put the home on the market are the three most common reasons residential work begins. A pre-sale renovation usually covers the whole house so the finish matches on every side, and the work is scheduled around your listing date. Changing the texture or color does not require changing the wall behind it. Because an addition must tie into the roofline, framing, and drainage already in place, it is harder than plastering a wall built from scratch. With custom homes, the wall system and finish are picked at the design stage.

Commercial and Multifamily Properties

When you are responsible for a commercial project, access planning, sequencing, paperwork, and signoffs usually demand more coordination than the plaster itself. We handle that side too. We coordinate submittals, schedules, inspections, and finish approvals with your general contractor or property manager so everyone involved knows when the work can move forward.

Retail, where storefront elevations are recoated between tenants, often to a firm turnover date.
Offices and professional buildings, phased so the work stays outside occupied floors.
Multifamily and apartment properties, with large repeated elevations.
Restaurants and medical buildings, scheduled around service hours, deliveries, and patient access.
Industrial and warehouse exteriors, which may combine stucco with tilt-up concrete or block.

Finished white stucco exterior on a Southern Utah home with desert landscaping

Commercial stucco work often has to continue without blocking customers, deliveries, or tenants. Our commercial scope covers new construction, tenant improvements, exterior repairs, recoating, and scheduled maintenance. Tenant-improvement work must be coordinated with the landlord's turnover deadline. On an existing property, we plan scaffolding and boom-lift access around your sidewalks, loading areas, and parked vehicles. After-hours work and staged closures let a business stay open while we are on site. Keeping one contractor across multiple phases holds the texture, color, and paperwork consistent from the first elevation to the last.

Our Stucco Project Process

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Call or Use Our Quote Form

Call (435) 236-2699 or send the quote form with the property address and a description of what you are seeing on the wall. We confirm the details and book your free on-site visit.
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Inspection and Estimate

Before you decide anything, you should know what the estimate covers and why. We inspect each elevation with you, review the spots you identified, and then go through the written estimate with you.
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Project Planning and Scheduling

While the scaffold is up, your usual entrances need to stay clear. We confirm the dates, wall access, crew staging, and material delivery, then pull the required permits and handle the HOA architectural approval for you.
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The Work on Your Walls

Waiting between coats can look like a delay unless you know it is part of the job. The schedule already includes the required cure time between coats, and we walk each finished elevation with you before moving to the next one.
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Final Walkthrough and Cleanup

At the end of the project, you should be able to review the work and use the surrounding areas again. We complete a final walkthrough with you across the finished elevations, fix the small items noted, remove the staging and debris, and leave you with clean walls and usable surrounding areas.

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Stucco in the Southern Utah Desert Climate

Stucco ages differently here, and the weather determines what your wall has to withstand. St. George sits in the Mojave Desert transition zone, averages about 8.8 inches of precipitation a year, and sees mild winters with snowfall around 1.4 inches. Down in the valley, the wear on your wall comes from sun, heat and daily movement rather than frost. We pick finishes, pigments, joints and sealants for those loads. At higher elevations, the conditions change. Pine Valley sits near 6,500 feet and Veyo near 4,500, where winters are genuinely cold and meltwater refreezes in the wall.

Sun-beaten stucco wall with fine surface crazing beside red rock in Southern Utah

Sun, Heat, and Color

A finish that once looked right can become washed out and chalky after several summers, especially on your south and west elevations. St. George gets around 255 sunny days and 50 to 60 days above 100°F, putting a heavy heat and ultraviolet load on any exterior finish. UV breaks down the organic binders in a coating, and the exposure adds up year after year. Integral iron oxide pigment holds color far better than a surface coating here. Where color retention matters, we specify a fade-resistant acrylic finish, which carries its color through the coat rather than in a thin surface film.

Movement, Dust, and Aging Coatings

Cracks often appear around windows, doors, and changes in substrate because large daily temperature swings make your walls expand and contract. Control joints absorb that movement, while elastomeric sealant keeps the transitions flexible enough to follow it. Older coatings crack first because they stiffen with age while the wall keeps moving underneath them. Windblown dust dulls a finish over the years. Because the dry air pulls water out of fresh plaster quickly, we moist-cure it. A crack alone is normal on a wall that moves.

How Long Stucco Lasts and What It Needs

When the visible finish starts showing its age, the cement base underneath may still be sound. The base and the finish age on different clocks. A sound cement base lasts decades when water drains and openings stay sealed, while the visible finish usually needs maintenance or renewal sooner. The sealant around openings and control joints is the replaceable part. Upkeep is light: rinse the dust off, keep the base of the wall clear so it can drain, and have the sealant checked once a year. A fog coat or a new finish coat resets the surface without rebuilding a sound wall.

What Stucco Work Costs in Washington County

When you are budgeting for stucco work, published cost guides can give you a starting point, but they cannot tell you what your property will cost. The figures here come from published national and regional cost guides, last reviewed in August 2026. They are approximate, they are not specific to St. George, and they are not our prices. We start each estimate by measuring your wall areas, then account for the scaffolding and lift access your property needs. Our itemized bid lists repair and repainting as separate scopes, so you can compare our number against anyone else's line by line. Financing is available if you would rather spread the cost.

What a Stucco Price Is Built From

Your system type usually accounts for the largest difference in what you pay. The 2026 guides disagree on exact numbers, but they agree on the order. One-coat is usually the least expensive, traditional three-coat stucco sits in the middle, and EIFS is usually the most expensive. Installed figures across those guides commonly fall between about $6 and $18 per square foot, so pinning down your system is most of pinning down your price.

The material side of an estimate covers the water-resistive barrier, metal lath, casing bead, control joints, and integral pigment. The labor side rises with the number of crew days, and the schedule also includes the cure time the code requires between cement coats. A replacement estimate adds tear-off and disposal on top of both. The same 2026 guides place many repair projects between $600 and $2,700. Your own number depends on access, how far the damage runs, whether the finish has to be matched, and how much wall we end up working on.

What Moves the Number Up or Down

Height is the first multiplier because two-story walls need staging before we touch plaster, while tight side yards may require boom-lift staging or smaller scaffold sections. The amount removed also matters because a localized patch costs less than a re-skin or full tear-off to the sheathing.

Stucco going on over block, the kind of wall work priced in a written estimate

A complicated texture and a weathered color both make the match take longer, since our crews work up to it in samples rather than guess. Architectural bands, arches, and shaped details cost still more, because each shape is fabricated instead of finished flat on the wall. An occupied storefront adds its own time. We protect the entrances and work in shorter zones so the doors stay usable. If your customers or tenants have to keep using the property throughout, we phase the work or come in after hours, and that adds crew days to the estimate.

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About St. George and Southern Utah

The Virgin River and the Santa Clara River come together at the city on the edge of the Colorado Plateau, while the Pine Valley Mountains rise to the north. Zion National Park draws visitors past St. George all year, and the Brigham Young Winter Home and St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site sit a few minutes from downtown.

Plaster on St. George walls has a long local history. When the St. George Utah Temple was finished in 1877, its local red sandstone was dressed rough so it would hold a plaster coat, and the completed exterior was white. Stone or block beneath a mineral coating is one of the oldest wall assemblies in town, and it still suits the local ground and light.

Red rock and pale desert soils help explain why light-colored mineral exteriors remain common, and stucco appears on far more Washington County houses than wood or vinyl siding. The metro area holds roughly 208,000 residents. New subdivisions keep going up while older properties reach the point of needing finish repairs or renewal.

Areas We Serve Around St. George

A crew needs to know where your property is and how it can be reached before quoting the work. St. George Elite Stucco serves communities throughout Washington County, from the connected cities around St. George to smaller settlements near the county’s valleys and mountain approaches. We confirm the project location and site access when we prepare your written estimate.

St. George, Washington, Santa Clara, Ivins, Hurricane, La Verkin, Toquerville, and Leeds
Winchester Hills, Diamond Valley, Dammeron Valley, Veyo, Brookside, Central, and Pine Valley
Gunlock, Shivwits, Virgin, and Apple Valley

St. George neighborhoods:

Downtown St. George, Bloomington, Bloomington Hills, Green Valley, Tonaquint, Southgate, and Sunbrook
Little Valley, Hidden Valley, Stone Cliff, SunRiver, Desert Color, Desert Canyons, Divario, and The Ledges

What St. George Homeowners and Property Managers Say

The corner damage and the cracks near it had been patched before, and the old repairs always stood out. They matched the lace texture on our Bloomington home, and now I cannot pick out the spot they worked on.

Maria R. Bloomington
Our exterior looked faded and uneven on every side of the house. The crew resurfaced all four elevations, changed the texture, and helped us choose a lighter color that looks consistent from the street and backyard.

Daniel K. Green Valley
We needed the storefront ready for a new retail tenant without shutting down the neighboring businesses. They phased the recoating so the entrances stayed open, worked around business hours, and left the whole facade one even color.

Alicia M. St. George
St. George Elite Stucco kept our new-build schedule moving across several lots. The crew coordinated with the other trades, completed each elevation in the planned sequence, and left the sites ready for the next inspection.

Chris T. Little Valley
They repaired the stucco on our house first, so we called them again when the courtyard block wall needed a finish. The texture ties into the house, and the caps and corners came out straight.

Rebecca S. Hurricane

Stucco Questions We Hear in Southern Utah

Do you provide residential and commercial service?

Yes. We work on both residential and commercial properties, including homes, additions, multifamily buildings, retail properties, offices, and new construction. The scheduling and access differ between residential and commercial projects, but the systems and finishes are the same.

How much does it cost to stucco a house in St. George?

Pricing depends on the wall system, access, how much has to come off, texture, and total wall area. Our pricing section gives published national and regional ranges by system; the number for your walls in St. George comes from a free written estimate.

How do I tell whether my house has EIFS or cement stucco?

A light tap offers a clue: cement stucco over lath sounds firm, while EIFS often sounds hollow over foam. We confirm the assembly at an exposed edge or utility penetration.

Does every crack mean my stucco has failed?

Hairline shrinkage cracks are often cosmetic. We inspect the pattern, width, location, and nearby finish before deciding whether the condition is a local blemish or part of a wider problem.

How long does stucco last in this climate?

The cement base itself is good for decades. What shortens that life is a blocked weep screed, soil piled at grade, or sprinklers hitting the wall daily.

How soon can you start after I accept the estimate?

Your written acceptance starts scheduling. We provide a realistic date range based on how busy our crews are, project size, and season. Small repairs usually fit the calendar sooner than staged installations.

Can you match the texture and color on a repair?

Yes. We prepare a sample panel to compare aggregate, pattern, and color under site lighting. A fog coat can blend broader sun-faded areas when a spot repair would remain visible.

Do I need HOA approval to change my stucco color?

Most master-planned communities require architectural review for exterior color or texture changes. We supply product color and texture samples for the submittal, then schedule installation after written HOA approval.

Do you pull the permit for a stucco job?

Re-stucco or replacement can require a permit in St. George or Washington County, while a like-for-like recoat often does not. We verify the jurisdiction and handle required permit applications.

Will EIFS on my house affect insurance or resale?

Some lenders, buyers, and insurers ask about EIFS because older sealed barrier systems, the version with no drainage path, developed moisture problems. We identify the actual wall assembly in writing so your records describe the property accurately.

Do you test for asbestos or lead before removing old stucco?

Before tear-off, we arrange laboratory testing for lead in older coatings on a home built before 1978, and Utah requires an asbestos inspection by a certified inspector on a home built before 1992. Results determine the containment, worker protection, and disposal plan.

Can you help with a homeowners insurance claim?

We can help with the documentation. You get dated photos and an itemized scope of work. Your policy and your adjuster decide what is covered, not us.

Get a Free Stucco Estimate in St. George

St. George Elite Stucco is a stucco contractor that works on homes and commercial buildings of every size. We begin with a free on-site walkthrough, looking at each elevation to review the visible conditions, the access, and the finish you want.

You receive the estimate in writing, and the visit is free. Call (435) 236-2699 or request a free estimate through our quote form.

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