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Greenpoint has one complication most Brooklyn neighbourhoods do not: a designated historic district. What you may do to a street facing wall and what you may do to the rear are different questions. We sort that out before quoting.

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Greenpoint Stucco Services

Stucco Services for
Greenpoint Homes

Greenpoint is a nineteenth century Brooklyn neighborhood with a designated historic district running through the middle of it. What you may do to a street facing wall and what you may do to the rear are two different questions, and getting that right comes before anything else.

MNM Construction Stucco serves Greenpoint homeowners and property managers with exterior stucco repair, EIFS installation, waterproofing, and interior plaster work. We've completed projects on everything from single family homes near Ditmars Boulevard to multi family buildings along Broadway. Our Greenpoint clients value our reliability, clear communication, and the quality of our finished work.

Our Greenpoint services include exterior stucco repair and installation, EIFS for energy efficient upgrades, waterproofing with StoGuard and Parex WeatherSeal, interior plaster and Venetian plaster for home renovations, and foam architectural moldings. Every project starts with a free, thorough on site estimate and clear written scope of work.

Greenpoint residents appreciate that MNM is a local contractor who understands the neighborhood and its specific building styles. When you call us, you reach the owner, not a call center, and we show up when we say we will. That reliability, combined with our craftsmanship, is why so much of our business in Greenpoint comes from neighbor referrals and repeat customers.

Greenpoint Service Areas

We serve all of Greenpoint (11222) and nearby areas across Brooklyn.

Services in Greenpoint

  • Exterior stucco repair
  • New stucco installation
  • EIFS installation
  • Waterproofing
  • Interior plaster
  • Foam moldings
  • Texture matching
  • Crack sealing
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Stucco Work in Greenpoint

What Greenpoint Walls Actually Need

The first thing to establish on any Greenpoint facade job is whether the building sits inside the Greenpoint Historic District. The district covers a cluster of blocks around Kent, Noble, Milton and Oak Streets and parts of Franklin, and if your building is in it then work visible from a public street comes under Landmarks Preservation Commission jurisdiction. That does not mean the work cannot be done. It means the approval has to be in hand before anyone starts, and it means stucco is unlikely to be approved on a street elevation that was never stuccoed.

Rear and interior lot elevations are a different matter, and that is where the majority of our Greenpoint work happens. Those walls are generally not visible from the street, the approval burden is lighter, and they are also the walls doing the hardest job on a Brooklyn row house. A well executed stucco system on a rear elevation over proper sheathing and a drainage plane is a genuinely good answer for an old frame wall that has been patched for decades.

Greenpoint's building stock is mostly nineteenth century frame and brick row houses, two and three family, with a substantial amount of newer waterfront construction along the East River. The old frame houses were often re clad more than once, so what is behind the current surface is frequently not what anybody expects. We open a test area rather than guess, because the cost difference between skimming a sound substrate and rebuilding a failed one is enormous and it is not something to discover halfway through.

Being on the water changes the exposure. Walls facing the East River and the open ground along the waterfront take wind driven rain that a sheltered mid block elevation never sees. Wind driven rain finds any gap at a window perimeter, a coping or a termination and drives water in horizontally rather than letting it run off. On exposed Greenpoint elevations the detailing at those junctions matters more than the finish coat does.

The low lying streets toward Newtown Creek add a drainage question at the base of the wall. Where stucco runs straight down into soil or a slab with no clearance it wicks water upward, and that is the first place to spall after a wet autumn. Keeping the system clear of grade and giving water a way out is a small detail at installation and an expensive one to correct afterwards.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my Greenpoint building in the historic district?
It depends on the block. The Greenpoint Historic District covers a cluster of streets around Kent, Noble, Milton and Oak and parts of Franklin. If your building is inside it, work visible from a public street requires Landmarks approval before it starts. We check the designation at the estimate rather than assuming, because the answer changes the scope, the timeline and the permit route.
Can I stucco the front of a landmarked Greenpoint house?
Generally not if the front was never stuccoed. Landmarks looks at whether a proposed treatment is appropriate to the building and the district, and applying stucco to a street facing elevation that historically showed brick or wood is unlikely to be approved. Rear and interior lot elevations are a different question and that is where most Greenpoint stucco work takes place.
How much does stucco work cost in Greenpoint?
Most repairs run $11 to $19 per square foot of wall, and a full rear elevation on a typical row house generally lands between $9,000 and $24,000. Greenpoint sits slightly above the Brooklyn average because access is tight on most blocks and anything requiring Landmarks approval carries filing time that has to be accounted for in the schedule.
Why does water come through my wall only in certain storms?
That is wind driven rain, and it is common on Greenpoint elevations exposed toward the East River. Ordinary rain runs down a wall and off. Wind driven rain is pushed horizontally into any gap at a window perimeter, a coping or a termination. A wall that is perfectly dry in a normal downpour can take water in a storm from one specific direction, which is why the detailing at those junctions matters more than the finish.
The bottom of my wall keeps crumbling. Why there?
Almost always because the stucco runs straight down into soil or a slab with no clearance, so it wicks ground water upward. On the lower streets toward Newtown Creek this is the most common failure we see. The repair involves cutting the system clear of grade and giving the water a way out, rather than simply patching the damaged band, which would fail again the same way.
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