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Melbourne has two housing stories. Inside the city, 25,244 single-family homes have a median build year of 1984, and 4,419 of them went up before 1960. Just outside the city line, another 17,126 homes with a Melbourne address, in Suntree and the county areas around it, are newer, with a median of 1998. Your local Stucco HQ contractor for the Space Coast serves Melbourne homeowners on both sides of that line. A real person answers your call, and your contractor sees the wall in person before writing a free estimate.
Most Melbourne calls are repairs, on mid-century block homes in the city and on 1980s and 1990s stucco in Suntree and Windover Farms. New stucco and full re-stucco cover the larger projects.
Cracks at window and door corners, patches that never matched, and spots around hose bibs and light fixtures. Each repair is cut back to sound stucco, bonded into the wall and textured to blend with the finish around it.
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Room additions, garage conversions, courtyard walls and new homes get stucco to the Florida Building Code, directly over block or over lath and a water barrier on framed walls, with weep screed and control joints placed where the code calls for them.
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When stucco has come loose from the wall or carries too many layers of patching, it is taken off down to the block or sheathing, your contractor checks what is underneath, and a new system goes on and is finished to suit the house.
More on stucco replacementNearly nine in ten Melbourne homes, 86.2% on the 2026 tax roll, are concrete block, and on block a thin stucco crack is usually cosmetic. On the framed homes and framed second stories, more common outside the city, a crack that lets rain in deserves attention sooner.
Not urgent doesn't mean ignore it. Stucco expands and contracts with Florida heat and humidity, and over time even a fine hairline crack can widen and let moisture in behind the finish, turning a small repair into a bigger one. Having your local Stucco HQ contractor fix it while it is still small keeps the job simple and the cost down.
If what you see is in the first list, it most likely is not an emergency and it can usually wait. If it is in the second, have it looked at before the next stretch of heavy rain.
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The city's older neighborhoods, among them Bowe Gardens, Sherwood Park, Leewood Forest and Cresthaven, were mostly built in the late 1950s and early 1960s. On those houses the stucco has usually been painted several times and patched here and there, and a good repair is one you cannot find a year later.
Outside the city line the homes are younger. Suntree dates mostly from the 1980s and Grand Haven from the 2000s, and 2,902 Melbourne-address homes outside the city have gone up since 2020 alone, many of them in the newest neighborhoods on the western edge of Viera, such as Pangea Park and Del Webb. Young stucco shows fine shrinkage cracks and cracks at window corners, and a builder warranty may still cover them.
Close to the Indian River Lagoon and the beaches, salt in the air settles on walls and works into open cracks and worn paint. Rinsing the walls now and then and keeping the paint sound does more for stucco near the water than any single repair.
Getting stucco looked at should not mean chasing anyone down. With Stucco HQ, the call is answered, the visit is booked, and the price is put in writing. Each job is carried out by a licensed and insured stucco contractor who works the Space Coast, and every estimate is free.
Get a Free EstimateSomeone at the Stucco HQ office picks up (321) 806-2351 at any hour and sends your details to your local contractor.
During business hours your contractor calls back within the hour; after-hours calls are returned the next business morning.
Homes in the city, in Suntree or out in the county get the same on-site look and written estimate.
After the visit you get the work and the price in writing, along with what can wait.
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals at Melbourne International Airport show 50.8 inches of rain a year, with September the wettest month at 7.6 inches. July highs average close to 90°F, and the station logs about 63 days a year at 90°F or above.
Late summer is when the rain and the tropical systems arrive together, inside the June 1 to November 30 hurricane season. Wind-driven rain finds open cracks and failed sealant around windows faster than a steady shower does, so spring and early summer are the best time to have small cracks sealed and paint touched up.
The city recorded 1,083 qualified single-family sales in 2025, and the Melbourne-address areas outside it another 1,232. Median prices across 2025 and 2026 sales were about $320,000 in the city and $575,000 outside it, according to the Florida Department of Revenue. Inspectors on older homes often note patched or cracked stucco; on newer ones, cracks at windows and at the base of the wall.
Your local Stucco HQ contractor can price the stucco items in the report and do the work before closing or after you move in. Estimates cover stucco work you plan to have done.
About two in five homes with a Melbourne address are outside the city. City homes get their permits from the City of Melbourne, while Suntree and the other county areas go through Brevard County. Your contractor confirms which office applies before work starts.
Suntree and many of the newer communities have homeowners associations that approve exterior colors and finishes. If yours does, check its rules before choosing a new color or texture.
Stucco HQ serves homes in the City of Melbourne and in the Melbourne-address communities of unincorporated Brevard County.
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All Space Coast service areasOr use the form. A person at the Stucco HQ office answers at any hour and notes your address and what you are seeing on the wall.
Within the hour during business hours, to set up the free estimate. Calls that come in after hours are returned the next business morning.
They check the crack or damage, the finish around it and whether the wall is block or framed, then write up the work and the price.
The repair is textured and painted to blend, the work area is cleaned up, and you walk through it together.
It depends on the size and height of the area, how sound the stucco around it is, and how much texture matching it takes. Your contractor gives a written price after seeing the wall.
Yes. Suntree and the other Melbourne-address areas of the county get the same visit and written estimate, and Viera has its own page. Brevard County, rather than the city, handles their permits.
Salt air and wind-driven rain are harder on paint and open cracks, so homes near the water benefit from sealing small cracks early and keeping the paint in good shape.
Fine cracks are common as new stucco cures, and many are cosmetic. Read your builder warranty first; if it has run out, your contractor can repair and texture them.
A person at the Stucco HQ office, day or night. They take down your details and pass them to your local contractor, who calls you to set a time.
Yes. Send the report, and your contractor will price the stucco items and fit the work around your closing date.
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Call or send the form. Your local contractor will call back to set a time to see the house.
Your local contractor will call to set a time for your free estimate. If it is urgent, call (321) 806-2351.
Call any time and a real person answers. Your local Stucco HQ contractor will come out, look closely at the wall and tell you plainly what it needs.