Homeowners · Property managers and HOA boards · General contractors
Who We Work With
Every call to Plastering Solutions Inc starts with the same question: who is on the other end of the line, and what does the project need. A homeowner planning one exterior project needs something different than a property manager coordinating several buildings, and a general contractor calling about a patch back is running on a different clock than either one. This page explains how we work with each, and where to go next depending on which one is you.
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Homeowners
Most homeowners who call have one wall, one section of siding, or one water stain they want looked at, not a full renovation plan. What holds people back is usually the conversation about cost, and the worry that naming a number just invites a contractor to spend all of it.
Some customers get so scared to give you what they have. Obviously, they think we're going to just grab their money.
Options built around your number
Her answer is to build options around whatever number you are willing to name, small or large, instead of presenting one price and one plan. That conversation, the budget, the payment schedule and the paperwork behind a project, is Luz's part of the business. If the budget conversation is the thing holding you back from calling, that is who you will be talking to.
For a homeowner the first call usually means sending photos, then a free in person walkthrough for anything beyond a small repair, scheduled the same day or the next.
This process is built for someone who plans to live in the house and wants a plan matched to their own budget and their own home. An investor, a flipper or an agent preparing a property for resale usually cares most about the lowest bid; a plan matched to a specific budget matters less on a property nobody plans to live in. You are welcome to call either way, and the fit will be clear early in the conversation.
Name a number you are comfortable with. The options get built around it, not the other way around.
Property managers and HOA boards
A property manager or an HOA board is rarely calling about one wall. What matters is who answers the phone consistently across a portfolio, who documents the work for a board meeting or an owner report, and who does not disappear between the estimate and the invoice.
Communication runs at whatever pace the client needs, daily, weekly, or tied to milestones. You set the cadence and it stays consistent for the life of the project.
The exterior painting that follows a stucco or plaster job is quoted with it here, so a board is not managing two contracts and two schedules for one wall.
What actually happens on a multifamily exterior, the engineering, the phasing around occupied units, and the case study, lives on our multifamily exterior renovation page.
License, warranty terms, written proposal and final walkthrough do not change with the size of the property. What changes is the number of buildings they cover.
Send your property list or your board's next project. One point of contact covers the whole portfolio.
General contractors and builders
General contractors and builders do not call us for a whole project. They call for the stucco and plastering scope of one, and Plastering Solutions Inc takes on that scope as a subcontractor on projects run by other general contractors and builders. What a GC needs to know is three things: how fast the patch back happens, whether the texture will actually match, and whether their schedule survives our part of it.
Patch back on your schedule
Stucco and siding patch back after a window or door goes in is one of the most common reasons a general contractor or a window company calls us directly. It is also one of the faster categories of work this crew takes on, generally without a permit, because it is a like for like repair rather than a structural change. Requirements vary by city and by scope. We confirm with your local building department before we quote. A general contractor closing out a job does not want stucco to be the trade holding up the final walkthrough, and that is usually the piece we are brought in to solve.
Matching texture, not covering it
Texture matching is a named part of this work, not an afterthought. On a general contractor's job, the part that matters is timing: at the walkthrough, before you have quoted your own client anything, you get the texture match confirmed and a turnaround date. That read goes into the proposal next to the scheduling estimate, so you already know the answer before your client ever has to ask.
Scheduling around your other trades
Before starting this company, Jose Dominguez spent twelve years with Local 300, running crews of nine and ten on commercial jobs including airports, convention centers, professional sports stadiums and large corporate buildings. Coordinating one trade's schedule around several others on a large site is not new territory for him. On a residential or multifamily project that means telling a general contractor plainly, up front, when our piece needs to happen relative to framing, drywall or paint. Nobody has to guess which gap in the schedule we are supposed to fill.
When a project also needs the drywall repair or the paint that typically follows stucco work, that can stay on the same estimate instead of becoming a separate vendor call. The company holds a Class B general building license alongside the C-35 plastering license, which is what allows that range of work to sit on one estimate.
Some of this work arrives through another contractor. A general contractor rebuilding after fire damage brings us in for the stucco and plastering scope, the same way a window company brings us in for the patch back.
We can't say enough great things about Plastering Solutions, the staff and all the people who worked on our home. From beginning to end Jose and his staff were very professional, clear as to the scope and price of all the work and their craftsmanship was superb. They did a great job fixing our stucco issues, the water intrusion areas and Cesar and his team did an excellent job painting the house to finish everything off. We are very happy and would not hesitate to use them again for stucco and house painting. A real professional and quality driven company all round! Thank you.
Send the plans and the timeline and we will scope the stucco and plastering piece to fit both.
Questions
Questions people ask about this work
If yours is not here, ask us on the phone. It is a better use of your time than guessing.
What happens after the free walkthrough, before any work starts?
You get a written proposal, usually the same day or the next. Once you approve it, a deposit is due, capped by California law so it is never more than the state allows. If your project needs a permit, we start that process before a start date gets set. If it does not, we schedule as soon as you are ready.
What forms of payment do you accept?
Most homeowners pay by personal check, and credit or debit cards are accepted as well. The deposit and the payment schedule are both set out in the written proposal before any work begins, so there is nothing to negotiate once the crew is on site.
If our scope needs engineering or a permit, is that on you or on me?
If it is triggered by the stucco or plastering portion, it is on us. We can bring in a structural engineer for the planning and an architect for the city drawings ourselves, so it does not turn into a separate consultant you have to hire on top of your own scope.
What happens if my schedule shifts and the patch back date has to move?
Tell us and we move with it. A patch back with no permit involved is not locked to one slot, so that kind of work gets scheduled whenever you are ready, the same week, next week or next month. If a permit is involved, that step runs on the city's calendar, and we tell you which situation you are in before you build a schedule around us.
How does billing work across a portfolio of buildings?
One point of contact runs the property and one proposal covers it, with each building itemized so a board can read it line by line rather than reconcile one lump number at the end. How the work itself gets scoped and phased across buildings is on our multifamily exterior renovation page.
What happens if a job needs more than stucco once the wall is open?
You see what was found before anything is covered back up, and it is confirmed and approved with you before it goes on the job. That applies the same way whether the call came from a homeowner, a property manager or a general contractor.
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Whichever one you are, the first call is the same.
Tell us if you are a homeowner, a property manager, an HOA board member or a general contractor, and what the project needs. That is the only thing that changes what happens next.
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CSLB #1044105, Class B and C-35. Two year warranty against water intrusion on exterior stucco.