Melbourne, Florida
EIFS Repair in Melbourne, FL
EIFS is not stucco, and repairing it like stucco is how a wall that needed a detail fixed becomes a wall that needs rebuilding. We work on both, and we treat them differently.
- ✓Barrier & drainable systems
- ✓Sealant, flashing & penetration details
- ✓Dryvit & other synthetic stucco
Serving Melbourne, Palm Bay, West Melbourne, Melbourne Beach, Palm Shores, Titusville.
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The most common way an EIFS wall gets worse is a well-meant repair.
Every stucco company in Brevard lists EIFS. Far fewer handle it as a different system, and the gap shows up in specific, repeatable ways.
Patching EIFS with cement-based stucco material traps moisture against the foam — the patch holds water exactly where the system is least able to dry. Cutting into a barrier wall without rebuilding the sealant and flashing behind it reopens the path the water came in through. Sealing the surface without addressing the detail hides the symptom and leaves the cause running.
None of those is negligence. They are what happens when a hardcoat stucco approach is applied to a system that behaves nothing like hardcoat stucco.
EIFS repair services
Residential and commercial synthetic stucco repair across Melbourne and Brevard County.
Sealant and flashing details
Windows, doors, rooflines, deck attachments — anywhere the system is penetrated. This is where EIFS fails first and where most EIFS walls only ever need work. Replacing shrunken or cracked sealant joints on a maintenance schedule is the highest-value thing an EIFS owner can do.
Localized system repair
Cutting out the affected area, correcting the detail that admitted water, and rebuilding the system in its correct layers — foam, basecoat, mesh, finish. Not patching over it.
Failed prior repairs
EIFS patched with cement-based stucco material, sealed with the wrong product, or cut into without rebuilding the flashing behind it. This is the most common thing we are called to undo.
Barrier system remediation
Where a face-sealed system has failed at multiple details and water has been getting in for years, the repair extends to the sheathing behind the foam and the details around it.
Water damage stucco repairImpact and mechanical damage
Foam damages more easily than cement plaster — ladders, trimmers, hail, and hardware pull-outs leave dents and punctures that need the system rebuilt rather than filled.
Elevation replacement
When a wall is past repairing, replacing that elevation — and specifying a drainable system in place of a barrier one — is the honest scope.
Most EIFS walls we look at need the first item on that list and nothing else. Sealant joints are a maintenance item, not a system failure.
Which generation of EIFS you have decides almost everything.
There are two, they look identical from the street, and they carry completely different risk.
Barrier (face-sealed)
The original design. No drainage path — it depends entirely on the outer skin staying watertight. Once a sealant joint at a window shrinks or cracks, water gets behind the foam and cannot dry back out through the coating. In Florida humidity it stays there. Brevard's 1980s and 90s build stock is squarely in this era.
Drainable
The later design, with a path for incidental water to get back out. It performs well. Same appearance, materially different risk profile — and the system we would specify if an elevation needs replacing.
Rough guide: built before the mid-1990s, assume barrier until proven otherwise. Built after, drainable is likely but not guaranteed. Build year is a strong indicator, not proof — confirming it means opening the system at a detail.
What cannot be judged from outside an EIFS wall.
Two things in particular. Whether the system is barrier or drainable is strongly suggested by the build year but confirmed only by opening it at a detail. And how far water has traveled behind the foam is not visible at all — the foam hides it, which is precisely why EIFS problems are found late.
Those two unknowns are what separate a sealant job from an elevation rebuild. A firm number that does not establish them is an estimate wearing a quote's clothing.
Worth adding: the tap test does not apply here. EIFS sounds hollow everywhere by design, so a hollow sound on an EIFS wall means nothing at all.
EIFS repair across Brevard County
We work throughout Brevard County, Florida.
- Melbourne
- Palm Bay
- West Melbourne
- Melbourne Beach
- Palm Shores
- Titusville
EIFS repair questions
How much does EIFS repair cost in Melbourne, FL?
It depends on whether the work is a detail repair or a system repair, and on how far water has traveled behind the foam — which is not visible from outside. A sealant joint replacement around a few windows and a rebuild of a saturated elevation are different jobs by an order of magnitude. We do not publish a Brevard County price range because no verified local one exists, and a number invented for a website is worse than no number.
Can a regular stucco contractor repair EIFS?
Not well, and this is the practical reason the crew matters. Patching EIFS with cement-based stucco material traps moisture against the foam and makes the problem worse rather than better. Cutting into a barrier system without rebuilding the sealant and flashing details simply reopens the path the water came in through. Both are common, and both turn a wall that needed a detail fixed into a wall that needs a system rebuilt.
Is my EIFS barrier or drainable, and does it matter?
It matters more than anything else about the wall. Barrier EIFS, also called face-sealed, has no drainage path and depends on its outer skin staying watertight — once a sealant joint cracks, water gets behind the foam and cannot dry back out. Drainable EIFS gives incidental water a way out and performs well. Build year is a strong indicator: before roughly the mid-1990s, assume barrier until proven otherwise. Confirming it means opening the system at a detail.
Do you repair Dryvit and other synthetic stucco brands?
Yes. Dryvit is a manufacturer name rather than a distinct material, and it is often used loosely to mean EIFS in general. The repair approach is governed by whether the system is barrier or drainable and how the details were built, not by the brand on the original specification.
Does EIFS always mean my house has water damage?
No, and it is worth being clear about that. Plenty of EIFS houses in Brevard are dry and fine. The risk concentrates in barrier systems installed before the mid-1990s, and within those, at the penetrations. A well-detailed EIFS wall that has been maintained can outperform a poorly installed hardcoat stucco wall.
I am not sure whether my house is EIFS or stucco.
There are four physical checks you can do yourself in about ten minutes — pressing the wall, looking at the bottom edge in profile, pulling a light fixture to look for foam, and noticing where cracking appears. Worth doing before you call anyone, including us, because the answer changes what the work is.
Tell us what you have.
Where the damage is, roughly when the house was built, and what you are seeing — cracking at a window, a stain, a soft or dented area, or sealant that has pulled away. That is usually enough to say whether this looks like a detail repair or something larger.
If it is sealant joints on a maintenance schedule, we will tell you that, and it is a smaller job than you are expecting.
Residential and commercial · Melbourne and Brevard County
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