Commercial Stucco Installation in Dunwoody

Hard coat stucco for Dunwoody’s smaller projects

Not every Dunwoody stucco job is a tower. Much of the new stucco work in the city is on smaller commercial buildings: a medical or professional office along Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, a retail outparcel, an addition to a neighborhood shopping center, or a clubhouse and amenity building at an apartment community. These projects need the same care as a large one, and often have less room for mistakes in the schedule.

Three-coat stucco is durable and handles impact well, but it only works as part of a system. We start with a weather-resistive barrier lapped correctly over the sheathing and integrated with window and door flashing. Lath is fastened into the framing at the right spacing, and control joints are laid out to break the wall into panels that can move without cracking. A weep screed at the base lets water that gets behind the stucco drain out.

The scratch and brown coats are applied and given proper cure time before the finish. That cure time matters most in Georgia’s summer heat, when stucco that dries too fast cracks. Our finish matches the design intent, or the existing building on an addition, using custom-blended color and texture.