Stucco Repair in St. Boniface | Winnipeg Stucco Works

St. Boniface covers more ground and more history than most Winnipeg neighbourhoods, and the stucco work varies with it. Winnipeg Stucco Works repairs stucco across the whole ward.

Two Different Housing Stories

The historic core near Provencher Boulevard is the older story. This was a Roman Catholic mission from 1818, a town from 1883 and a city from 1908, and the built environment reflects that: red-brick civic buildings, the 1906 City Hall, a heritage district with more than thirty-five designated sites.

Houses from that era were often brick, and many were later stuccoed. Maison Béliveau, built in 1906, is a documented example still standing with stucco over its original brick except at the entrance. Stucco over brick behaves differently from stucco on lath, and repairs have to account for what is underneath.

The second story is suburban. Windsor Park went up mainly through the 1950s and 1960s as one of Winnipeg’s first planned suburbs, and Southdale followed in the 1970s and 1980s. Those are conventional stucco-on-lath houses, now aged into the range where original finishes are failing.

Between Two Rivers

North St. Boniface sits between the Red and the Seine, and the area carries real flood infrastructure as a result. Taché Avenue forms part of the city’s primary diking system, and the newer Sage Creek development was built with thirteen naturalized stormwater ponds and two back-flood basins.

For a stucco contractor, the relevance is what happens at the bottom of a wall. Ground that holds moisture keeps the base of a foundation damp longer, and that band is where spalling and parging failure start. On houses near the rivers we look hard at the grade line before quoting.

What We Get Called For

In the older core, stucco repair on heritage walls and interior plaster repair, since houses of that age are lath and plaster inside.

In Windsor Park and Southdale, more stucco crack repair and parging repair as the post-war stock reaches the age where the original work gives out.

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Neighbourhoods We Serve in St. Boniface

Norwood
Windsor Park
Southdale
Archwood
Central St. Boniface

Our Services in St. Boniface

Stucco Questions in St. Boniface

Do you cover Windsor Park and Southdale as well as old St. Boniface?

Yes. The ward runs from the historic core near Provencher out through Windsor Park, Southdale, Archwood and the newer developments toward Sage Creek. The housing eras across that span are very different, and so is the work.

My house is brick with stucco added later. Is that unusual?

Not at all here. Maison Béliveau, an 1906 Queen Anne Revival house, was built in brick and is now stuccoed except for its red-brick entrance. Applying stucco over earlier brick was a common way to update and weatherproof an older house, and those walls have their own repair considerations.

Does being close to the rivers affect the stucco?

Indirectly. Ground moisture near the Red and the Seine affects how the soil under a foundation behaves seasonally, and stucco cracks track foundation movement. Damage at the base of a wall is also more common where ground stays damp, which is parging work more often than stucco.

How old is the housing in Windsor Park?

Windsor Park was built mainly through the 1950s and 1960s as one of Winnipeg's first planned suburban neighbourhoods. Those houses are now around sixty to seventy years old, which is squarely the age where original exterior finishes need attention.

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