Stucco repair costs in Fort Collins

On July 27 and 28, 1997, a slow storm stalled over Fort Collins and dumped 14.5 inches of rain in 31 hours, the local history archive records. Spring Creek flooded west of College Avenue. Five people died at a mobile home park, and water filled the basement and first floor of the CSU library. The city took up extensive flood planning afterward, and the archive credits that work with sparing Fort Collins the heavy damage the 2013 floods did across northern Colorado.

Outside city limits, Larimer County's building division puts a stucco wall's layers in writing. Its stucco certification form has the installer sign that the stucco or EIFS system follows the maker's instructions and the code, line by line, from the fasteners and base coat to the drainage plane. A second form covers the sealant at the joints, signed by the sealant installer, who may be a different company. Both forms carry the building permit number. When you compare bids for a county job, check that the joint sealing is in each one, not left for someone else.

Plenty of the houses here are young. About four in ten homes in the Fort Collins metro were built in 2000 or later, Census estimates show, and the 2000s were the biggest building decade.