Stucco repair costs in Indianapolis

Snow isn't the big threat to stucco in Indianapolis. A normal season brings about 25 inches, the National Weather Service says. What wears a wall down is the back-and-forth: rain, a hard freeze, a thaw, then rain again, over and over from December into March. Each round pushes water a little deeper into any crack.

Half the metro's homes were built in 1985 or later, per Census estimates, but some of the stucco here is more than a century old. Meridian Park's National Register nomination calls Tudor details like stucco and half-timbering a pattern repeated frequently across that north-side district, which runs from 30th to 34th Street, and some of its examples put brick on the first floor with stucco higher up. If you own one, the trouble spots are where stucco meets timber and where the upper wall sits on the brick. Look for open seams along trim boards and streaks running down from them.