Real ranges, what actually drives the price, and why the cheapest quote is usually the most expensive one.
Repair and full remediation, every time. You see both numbers.
Probe data sets the scope - not a salesman, not the finish.
Send your report; we tell you what it actually requires.
The number is what people fear, so let us put it on the table.
EIFS work is not priced like painting. Two houses on the same street can be five feet apart on the wall and twenty thousand dollars apart on the invoice, because what matters is not the square footage you can see. It is the wood you cannot see behind it. Here are honest ranges for the Cape Fear coast.
| Scope | Typical range |
| Targeted repair (contained wet area) | $2,000 – $8,000 |
| EIFS tear-off and replacement | $8 – $45 per sq ft |
| Added cost where mold is present | $10 – $25 per sq ft |
| Full-home remediation and re-clad | $25,000 – $75,000+ |
Not the size of the house. The length of wall that is actually holding water. A big house with one bad window can cost less than a small house that has been wet at every joint for ten years. The probe readings set this number, which is why we take them before we quote.
Water past a face-sealed EIFS system rots the wood sheathing behind a wall that still looks perfect from the street. If the rot is contained, it is a repair. If it has traveled into the framing, the tear-off gets bigger and so does the bill. You do not know which until the wall is opened or thoroughly probed.
A targeted repair fixes the failure and the water source. A full re-clad strips the whole system down to the sheathing and rebuilds it. The gap between those two is the biggest single swing in any quote, and it is exactly why we give you both numbers instead of one.
Old EIFS was face-sealed with no drainage plane, so one breach trapped water against the wood. Modern drainable EIFS gives water a way back out. Re-cladding to a drainable system costs more up front than slapping the same failed detail back on the wall. It is also the difference between fixing the problem and repeating it in eight years. Dryvit, Sto, Senergy, and Parex all make water-managed systems.
Where wood has been wet long enough, you get mold, and mold adds remediation cost and containment on top of the cladding work. The longer a wall sits wet, the more likely this line item shows up.
Here is the uncomfortable part. The lowest bid is often the contractor who is only replacing the skin. New foam, new finish, same missing kickout flashing, same face-sealed detail, same wet sheathing sealed back up inside the wall. It looks fixed. It photographs great at closing. Two summers later the moisture is back, the rot is worse, and now you are paying for the tear-off you thought you already bought.
A 1997 house in Ogden, original Dryvit, the low quote was under twelve thousand to re-skin the front elevation. The wall under the two front windows had no kickout flashing and the sheathing was gone in a four-foot band. Re-skinning it would have buried the actual problem. The real fix was smaller in area but had to address the flashing and the drainage, or the number was going to come back around and cost double.
Price is real. So is paying twice. We would rather quote you the honest scope once. If your inspection already flagged wet areas, our guide on reading your moisture report walks through what those readings mean before you weigh any quote.
Upload the inspection report or photos of the readings. We tell you what it actually requires - repair or full remediation - honestly, before your closing date does.