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How to Repair Stucco Cracks: Patch or Rebuild?

Not every stucco crack needs a repair. Hairline cracks under a sixteenth of an inch that do not grow are the wall doing what cement does, and filling them is cosmetic. The stucco cracks that matter are wider than a sixteenth, follow a repeating pattern, leak water, or keep coming back after a stucco patch.

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How to Apply Stucco: The Three-Coat Process

Knowing how to apply stucco right matters because stucco applied wrong does not fail at the wall. It fails three years later, as a hairline crack that lets water in, and by the time you see it the repair costs several times what doing it right would have cost.

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