Kickout and step flashing installation in Central Bucks County, PA
25 towns covered · Targeted repair
Kickout and step flashing installation — The small piece of metal at the bottom of a roof-wall intersection that diverts a whole roof's runoff into the gutter instead of into your wall.
In Central Bucks County, PA this work typically runs $1,000–$4,500. That is a typical range for the area rather than a quote: the amount of hidden damage behind the cladding is the largest variable and cannot be priced accurately before the wall is opened.
This comes up often enough across Central Bucks that most local crews have a settled way of handling it.
What usually prompts the call
- A stain on the wall directly below where a roof edge meets it
- No visible metal diverter where the bottom of a roofline meets a wall
- Interior damage on the wall beneath that intersection
- Wet readings clustered under one roof-wall junction
What a contractor will do
A missing kickout is the single most common defect found on stucco homes of this era in Bucks County, and it is disproportionately damaging: without it, the water running down a roof edge is delivered straight behind the cladding at one concentrated point, all day, every storm, for years. Retrofitting one means opening the cladding locally, installing the kickout and the step flashing lapped correctly into the water-resistive barrier, and patching back. It is a small job that prevents a very large one.
What it costs
$1,000–$4,500 — typical range, not a quote. What your home needs can only be settled by a registered contractor who comes out and looks at it.
Further reading
- 9 Signs of Stucco Failure in Bucks County
- Missing Kickout Flashing: The $2 Part That Costs $60k
- The code this work is measured against
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Tell us what you're seeing →Related work
- Stucco crack repair and sealing $900–$5,000
- Stucco patching and colour matching $1,200–$7,000
- Sealant and caulking renewal $1,400–$5,000
- Historic lime stucco repair $4,000–$25,000
- Stucco cleaning and stain removal $600–$2,800
- Elastomeric coating and painting $4,500–$16,000
Towns we cover for this
Only the areas where this work genuinely applies to the housing stock.
Stucco-belt subdivisions
Wood-framed homes built through the 1990s and 2000s boom, clad in hard-coat stucco over OSB. This is where remediation demand lives.
Historic borough and village
Solid stone and brick under traditional stucco, mostly pre-1940. Repair with breathable materials — not remediation.
Custom and estate homes
Large customs on open ground with complex rooflines, a higher share of EIFS and manufactured stone, and the biggest jobs in the county.