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Crack repair on a St. Augustine home runs $900 to $2,400. A full re-stucco of a wall face or elevation runs $9,500 to $18,000. Nearly every stucco job sits somewhere between those two numbers, and which end you land on has far less to do with how bad the wall looks than with how long water has been getting behind it.
Those figures reflect St. Augustine market pricing as of 2025 and 2026. Below is what each range actually buys, what pushes a job from the first number toward the second, and the one thing that decides the price before anyone quotes it.
What the $900 to $2,400 range covers
That band is for work where the wall behind the stucco is sound. Hairline and shrinkage cracks. Cracks wide enough to need opening out, cleaning, and re-bridging with mesh before they are filled. A patch at a hose bib or a light fixture. Resealing failed joints around windows and doors. And the texture and color work that makes the repair disappear rather than announce itself.
The spread inside that range is mostly count and access. Six cracks cost more than one. The same crack at the top of a two-story gable costs more than at eye level, because the price includes getting a lift or scaffold to it. Color matching and texture blending are included in every professional repair quote in this market, and they are included in ours.
What the $9,500 to $18,000 range covers
That is a wall face or a full elevation taken back and rebuilt. The stucco comes off, the substrate underneath is inspected and repaired, lath and building paper or a proper drainage plane go back where the assembly needs them, and the entire face is re-coated and finished so it reads as one continuous surface.
That last part is why the work is priced by the elevation rather than by the damaged patch. There is no way to re-stucco half a wall and have the seam not show a year later. If a quote proposes rebuilding a five-foot section of a twenty-foot wall and repainting only that section, you are paying for a repair you will be able to find from the driveway.
The middle, where most real jobs land
Patch repairs and water damage that has reached behind the wall cost more than surface work and less than a full elevation, and the scope depends entirely on how far the moisture spread before anyone opened the wall. This is the part that cannot be quoted from a photograph. Water enters at a crack or a failed joint, runs down the back of the stucco, and travels sideways along framing before it shows up anywhere you can see. A stain the size of a dinner plate on the outside can be four feet of wet sheathing behind it, or it can be nothing at all.
That is why the moisture reading comes before the number. Guessing small means missing damaged framing and closing the wall over it. Guessing large means paying to open sound wall. Neither is a pricing problem; both are a diagnosis problem. Our post on what stucco remediation actually means walks through how that testing works and where the repair line gets drawn.
What actually moves the price
How long the damage has been there. This is the single biggest driver, and it is not close. A fresh crack is cheap. A crack that has cycled through two or three Florida rainy seasons is expensive, because by then water has saturated the substrate and started rotting framing, and the job has become carpentry with a stucco finish on top. Early repair almost always costs a fraction of deferred repair.
Where the crack is, more than how wide it is. A quarter-inch crack in the middle of a blank wall is usually a cosmetic problem. A hairline crack at the bottom corner of a window is a path into the wall assembly, because that is where flashing has to be interrupted and made continuous again, and that is where installation errors live. We wrote a full guide on which stucco cracks matter and which ones do not, and reading it before you call anyone will tell you roughly which range you are in.
What is behind the stucco. Concrete block with stucco bonded directly to it has no cavity for water to sit in, and repairs on block tend to stay closer to surface work. A frame wall with lath, building paper, and plywood or OSB sheathing can hide rot for years behind a face that still looks intact. Two identical-looking cracks on two houses in the same subdivision can be a $1,200 job and a $12,000 job for this reason alone.
Height and access. Second-story and roofline repairs need scaffolding or a lift, and that shows up in the estimate in proportion to how much of the structure is involved.
Texture and color matching. This is the part homeowners underestimate and the part that separates a repair you cannot find from one that stands out for a decade. Matching aged, sun-faded stucco to fresh patch material is skilled work, and it means sampling and testing blends before anything is committed to the wall. See texture matching and color matching for what that involves. A contractor who does not raise it before quoting is planning to skip it.
Whether the system is EIFS. Synthetic stucco needs different materials and different techniques, and moisture management at seams and window penetrations is more demanding, so it carries a modest premium over three-coat hard stucco. Costs for that work are broken out in our EIFS repair cost guide.
Is stucco repair covered by homeowners insurance?
It depends on how the damage happened, and the line insurers draw is sudden versus gradual.
Storm damage from a hurricane, a hail event, or a falling tree is typically covered, subject to your deductible. Gradual water intrusion from a crack nobody addressed is typically not. Pre-existing cracks are not.
If your damage is storm-related, photograph it immediately with dates. Florida law gives you one year from the date of loss to report a new property insurance claim and eighteen months for a supplemental claim, and your policy separately requires prompt notice, so the practical deadline is much sooner than the legal one. A written assessment from a contractor who works with adjusters, documenting the scope and what was found behind the wall, is the difference between a claim that pays and a claim that gets argued.
What is included, and what stands behind it
A stucco inspection covers a walk of every elevation, a tap test to find delamination, moisture readings at suspect areas, identification of active water entry points, and a written assessment of repair scope and priority. Stucco Home Repair offers those inspections free for homeowners in St. Augustine and Northeast Florida, and the work is backed by a 5-year labor warranty.
For homes here, where humidity and rain cycles push weathering along faster than most of the country sees, an inspection before the wet season is worth the hour it takes. It either confirms the wall is fine or catches the damage while the repair is still in the hundreds instead of the thousands.
Booking is typically two to three weeks out, so if you are trying to get ahead of the rainy season, the call is worth making earlier than feels necessary. Call (904) 526-2075 to schedule a free inspection, or see what stucco repair and stucco crack repair cover before you do.