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The number a homeowner wants is a price per square foot, or a published “$12 stucco repair.” That number is not a takeoff. Forty feet of first-story hairline crack on hard-coat, no scaffold, is not the same job as 180 square feet of second-story EIFS torn back to the substrate with new mesh and four window flashings. The wall is still “stucco.” The hours are not.
Open the free bid calculatorSiding calculators price a cladding replacement. Exterior-painting calculators price a coating on an intact surface. Foundation-repair calculators price structure. A stucco repair is a finish system: the crack, the hollow, the tear-off, the story, and the flashings. Quoting all of that from a published per-square-foot number is how the first second-story lift eats the field margin.
Each second-story elevation is a lift day that never appears on a square-foot sheet. EIFS mesh and lamina are billed as their own hours and their own kit. Window flashing, color match, and a moisture investigation are adders that get forgotten on a brochure special. On the sample rates a 180-square-foot second-story EIFS tear-off with 40 square feet of hollow, four flashings, moisture investigation, and color match prices about $11,941 ($54 per square foot of hollow plus tear-off, 105.1 crew-hours). The same shop’s 40-foot first-story hard-coat crack patch prices about $998 ($25 per crack foot, 7.6 hours, walk-away $718). Matching the brochure job’s per-foot number on the EIFS tear-off is how that job becomes a loss.
A 400-square-foot three-story hard-coat tear-off with gable access is not the EIFS job plus 100%. On the sample rates that elevation prices about $15,829 ($40 per square foot, 147.7 crew-hours) — more money than the EIFS job, but a lower per-foot number, because the mesh, moisture investigation, and four flashings do not live in a published per-square-foot rate. An 80-square-foot first-story one-coat delamination with color match and one flashing prices about $3,050 (25.6 hours). Treating either as a blended add-on is how the special that looked fine turns into a loss after the first lift day.
A $38/h plasterer loaded at 32% payroll burden is $50.16. Margin is a share of the price you send, not a markup on cost. The walk-away price is total cost — below that the job makes nothing before you take a dollar home. Replace every rate with your invoices before you send either number.
This is not a stucco specification, a moisture determination, a permit, an engineering stamp, or a recommended market price. It is arithmetic on the numbers you type. System, substrate, flashing, color match, and whether the wall is holding water are yours to confirm.
Charge from crack linear feet, hollow / delaminated square feet, tear-off to the substrate, stories and scaffolding, window flashing, color match, moisture investigation, loaded labor, overhead, and a margin that is a share of price. A default 40-foot first-story hard-coat crack patch at the sample rates in this calculator prices around $998 — about $25 per crack foot.
Homeowners count wall area. Scaffolding, tear-off to the substrate, EIFS mesh, window flashing, color match, and moisture investigation do not scale with that number. Matching a cheaper per-square-foot quote written for a brochure crack patch is how a second-story EIFS job becomes a two-day loss.
Not in proportion. On the sample rates a 180-square-foot second-story EIFS tear-off with 40 square feet of hollow, four flashings, moisture investigation, and color match prices around $11,941 ($54 per square foot of hollow plus tear-off), while a 40-foot first-story crack patch prices around $998 ($25 per crack foot).