Stucco repair costs in Shreveport

South Highlands shows what older Shreveport stucco looks like. It began as its own town, platted in 1912 and annexed by the city in 1927. Its National Register nomination counts 460 buildings and says each is sheathed in one of three materials: wood, brick veneer or stucco. Among the period-revival houses there, the smaller ones tend to be frame, and the more upscale ones are brick or stucco over brick. Many houses sit several feet above the street, some on rises of 10 to 12 feet.

The air works on those walls every day. Humidity in Shreveport runs rather high in all seasons, the Shreveport weather office notes. Two-thirds of the hours just before sunrise reach 90 percent humidity or more, while more than half of mid-afternoon hours drop below 50 percent. So the air around your stucco swings from nearly saturated to fairly dry on most days.

Winters are mostly mild, but the area still averages 39 days a year at or below freezing. Cold snaps here usually run a set pattern: it turns cold one day, bottoms out the next, and warms on the third. Those quick swings are hard on any patch that hasn't fully set.