Willard-Hay sits on the northwest side of Minneapolis, roughly bounded by Penn Avenue to the east and the rail corridor to the north. The housing stock leans older, with a lot of homes built between the 1920s and 1950s. That means plenty of original stucco exteriors that have taken 70-plus years of Minnesota winters. Freeze-thaw cycles crack stucco from the inside out, and homes in this part of Minneapolis see that damage every spring. We've repaired hundreds of homes with exactly this profile.
Winters here are hard. Temperatures in Willard-Hay drop well below zero, and moisture works into any small crack and expands when it freezes. By March, what started as a hairline crack can be a chunk of missing stucco. The neighborhood also sees older EIFS systems on some commercial and mixed-use buildings along the main corridors. Those systems need regular inspection and recoating to keep water out. We've worked on both the residential bungalows and the commercial frontages in this part of the city.