Trust your failing stucco sidewalls to the professionals of FSI. We have the knowledge & experience to restore your sidewall cladding, making it trouble and worry free for years to come.
Website & Work History Site Stucco Inspections Philadelphia Bob's Youtube Channel Contact UsPhiladelphia is full of poorly done stucco and there are plenty of stucco contractors ready to answer your call to replace your failing wall cladding. Will they do it right? Many come from the same new-construction mindset that fostered the original issues. As far as stucco and a lot of the wall cladding materials available please see the video below (under START HERE). You need to be informed so that you don’t ‘Repeat the Cycle!’ We see many homes that are renovated poorly and then the work fails miserably. 4 out of 5 of our clients have had the work done (redone) once before. Please don’t fall for the same old methods that caused your current situation. We are leak specialists. Our work, first and foremost, does not leak. Unlike the vast majority of the industry that would focus on underlayment as a de facto primary water-shedding material, we do not compromise on the external cladding and flashing elements to allow them to leak, or even expect them to leak onto underpayment. This is our main argument with the status-quo of external cladding. Manufacturers love it because they sell tons of house-wrap and tape and the like. If you look at the buildings going up in Philadelphia, they are all heavy on the wrapping that lies under the final cladding and light on actual proper flashing details. These buildings leak and this is the main reason for failure, along with other fundamental details. See the video below for more information. Schedule a free consultation with a professional today by clicking the link for a free estimate / inspection.
There are many voices in this industry and most are followers of the trends that cause major problems. You must be educated so that you do not ‘REPEAT THE CYCLE.' Engaging with the same sort that caused your current problems will probably result in more problems and increased costs and do-overs. Builders use inexperienced single-trade applicators. They now want your business, but can they deliver?
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You get your stucco inspected and weak areas of substrate are found. The stucco is blamed and you engage the services of a “SINGLE TRADE APPLICATOR” that ‘repeats the cycle," not addressing the cause of the problems! You are back at square one! We diagnose causation, not just condition! We remedy the issues that caused the problem and we remedy the damage done. Novices abound in this industry and they follow the very same trends that were followed before that caused the trouble in the first place. “DON’T REPEAT THE CYCLE!”
We always try to make things better when we leave then they were when we first arrived. This particular job in Manayunk was absolutely unbelievable when we arrived. We had a makeshift Green Roof with all kinds of penetrations in the field leaking like a sieve with stucco walls. We installed fiberglass cladded walls and we rerouted many of the penetrations so that they exited the vertical walls. Take a look at this quick photo walk through by clicking the red tab below.
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Often when stucco fails, the failed stucco and wall become the focus, but the situation is almost always just the symptom and the stucco is not the main cause of the problem. Inspectors abound as validating the structural concerns has become big business. We ask if you are being served well by these 'experts.' All too often the contractor chosen to rectify a stucco failure and that operator is just a middle-man that subcontracts to the siding sub-contractor. This is no different than the builder's business model that caused the problem! They will all tell you that they do not sub-contract, but most of them do. You will have a repeat of the initial problem in the making, if you engage with a single-trade operator. What is their answer? Underlayment, Tyvek, Tapes and the like are the only answers they have in their toolboxes! If you hear a lot of talk like this, please reconsider. Water should NEVER make it to underlayment! Underlayment should never be relied upon as a primary water-shedding material. YOU MUST ADDRESS THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM!
We have done a lot of work in your city. We have a wealth of knowledge and industry experience from which to draw. We are not 'single trade applicators' looking to make a buck. We are not just a sidewall cladding company. We are skilled in more than just one trade or sub-trade or disipline, so we can diagnose causation and get the critical flashing details done correctly. We have the seasoned craftsmen on staff to do the job correctly. We exceed industry standards every day. Our work history speaks for itself. We are the contractor of choice for discerning homeowners that want true quality workmanship from a proven company. Others try to mimic us but they just can’t deliver the same service that we do every day.
Do we use underlayment? Sure we do! Do we rely upon underlayment as a primary water-proofing and water-shedding material? NO! This mentality is the flaw. This is the hinge-pin that has caused most of the problems. For most sidewall contractors, all they have is underlayment because they just don't know any better. Flashing details are lost in this soup of bad methodology and entire walls of buildings are rotting down because of ignorance. The video linked below is from a job of years ago where Vinyl Siding (a severely flawed siding system) was installed to replace existing cladding and clad an addition and the installer followed the industry standards - to the letter. The result? We rendered the cleanup of this mess from the rotting framing and plywood, insulation and interior work to the removal of deadly black mold. Yes, if you follow the industry standards you can be in the same boat. It is so very important to install the needed flashing that is needed and that flashing must drain outward and onto receiving cladding AND NOT INTO THE WALLS! If you engage a single-trade applicator (that is just interested in making a buck) they will neither have the knowledge, nor the skill to get it right and your hpme and health could be at risk. Please click the link and educate yourselves. See video by clicking the red tab.
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We have the knowledge. We have the experience. We have the trained technicians. No other company comes close to our level of expertise. Since 1978 we have serviced the exterior needs of clients throughout the Delaware Valley. We entered Philadelphia in 2010 to answer the calls for repair and replacement of the many roof decks created by single-trade applicators in the city. We quickly realized that there was a need for sidewall cladding also. We have actively been answering the stucco remediation needs of Philadelphia's communities for a decade now. Many mistakes were made and many repeated in the costly mistakes of the contractors that were paid to fix the initial errors. There is a reason for this. The new construction arena is the training ground for the remediation contractors that ultimately bring with them the same mistaken methods they employed in the field creating problems just like yours. The same people that created the problems are now engaged in the cleanup and repair of the problems they created! Because a failed stucco wall is damaged or leaking does not mean that the cause is obvious to a novice. Quite often problems arise from sidewalls and doors, roofs and areas where the inexperience of the typical wall cladding contractor repeats the same procedural mistakes of his or her predecessor. Don’t repeat the cycle! Our techs have knowledge of all facets of the exterior cladding of your home and all that can affect it, including interior moisture problems, often overlooked. They are trained and overseen by seasoned life-long trade professionals.
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On most leak issues, it will take so much more than a single-trade applicator to diagnose causation. Even the 'experts' get it wrong in court cases every day. There is no proper acedemic field of study that covers the science of external cladding. You can search the worls over and you will find resourses loftily labeled with such terms as the 'Modern Building Envelope,' etc. There is sound information but everyone from the acedemics to the people in the field have their own specialty and 'experts' tend to lean on their own limited understanding and skillset, very mush like the single trade applicators in the field. Complete understanding of overall conditions is a very hard comoditiy that we offer. We are different, as you can probably glean from this very webpage. Builders use sub-contractors and our single trade competitors use the same ones! This is sad but true. Most problaems to which we are called are issues that have been repaired several times before our arrival. Call us and get the most comprehensive free (non-formal) report available regarding the health of your home and accompaniments. We can almost guarantee that we are going to have a diffeent view of the situation than that of anyone in this industry.
Costly mistakes are being made that lead to major down-line expense. Trust the pros of FSI and end the nightmare.
Every year a new company, or two will pop up to take the place of the ones that folded last year. It is sad but true. Stay with us and we will stay with you with the best warranty coverage in the business.
You have our word that our main focus is doing right by you. We will inspect your walls and accompaniments free of charge and you will receive a true report as to the condition with options that fit your needs. We will not lie to you to make a buck. We will not withhold information in order to present a proposal knowing that you will be hit with additional charges later. Contractors do this and it is wrong. We only offer what will work because we will be here tomorrow to service our work.
We are family run and we care. We care about getting the details right first. Profit is a reward and it comes after the job is done correctly. Every member of our team will value your home as if it were their own. We are clean, respectful, honorable and we do the right thing every day. That is why we have become the roof deck company trusted by more homeowners than any other by far in the city of Philadelphia.
We stand behind our work for 10 years. We will show up to service our workmanship free of charge in response to your request. We put it in writing on day one when you receive your estimate.
