Stucco and Plaster Supplies in
Scotts Valley, CA
Central Home Supply carries stucco and plaster materials for interior and exterior work at our Scotts Valley yard. Wire, lath, trim, plaster sand, cement, and finish products are stocked so a crew can pick up a full system in one stop instead of chasing pieces across three suppliers.
We sell to plastering contractors working across the county and to homeowners taking on a wall or a chimney. Bring your square footage and the substrate you are working over, and our staff will put the order together with you.
Stucco and Plaster We Stock
Lath, Wire, and Trim
A stucco system is only as good as what sits behind it. We stock metal lath, woven wire, and paper-backed lath for application over wood framing and sheathing, along with the building paper that goes underneath.
Trim accessories are the part crews most often run short on partway through a job:
Control and Expansion Joints
Manage movement across large plaster fields. Placement is worth getting right the first time, since movement cracking is the most common long-term failure in cement plaster and it traces back to joint layout more often than to the mix.
Corner Aid
Expansion and control joint placement is worth getting right the first time. Movement cracking is the most common long-term failure in cement plaster, and it traces back to joint layout more often than to the mix.
Weep Screed
Runs along the foundation line and lets moisture behind the plaster drain out at the bottom of the wall. California framing requires it on wood-framed exterior construction.
Casing Bead
Terminates plaster cleanly where it meets a window, a door, or any dissimilar material.
Fasteners and construction hardware for lath and accessory attachment are stocked alongside.
Plaster Sand and Cement
PPlaster sand is graded finer than concrete sand, and substituting one for the other changes both workability and finish texture. We stock plaster sand alongside Portland cement, lime, and plastic cement for job-mixed work, and bagged stucco mixes where a crew would rather not batch on site.
Mortar and plaster mixes should match the engineer's specification on any job that carries one. On residential work without a spec, the product data sheet governs. Ask us at the counter if you are unsure which applies, since the answer changes with the wall assembly.
Three-Coat and One-Coat Stucco Systems
Traditional three-coat cement plaster runs a scratch coat, a brown coat, and a finish coat over lath and a weather-resistive barrier. It is the thickest and most durable of the systems and it remains the default on new residential construction in this area.
One-coat systems apply a single thicker base coat over foam board or sheathing, followed by finish. They go up faster and add insulation value, which is why they show up frequently on production work.
The system you choose drives everything else on the order. Lath type, joint accessories, sand quantity, and finish product all follow from it. Tell us which one you are running before you price the material, and our material calculator will get you close on quantities beforehand. Trowels, floats, and finishing tools and the rest of our masonry tools are in the same yard.
Interior Plaster Work
Interior plaster covers a different set of problems than exterior stucco. Veneer plaster over blueboard gives a hard, smooth monolithic surface that outperforms taped drywall on durability and sound.
Traditional gypsum plaster still turns up in restoration work on older homes across Santa Cruz County, where matching an existing finish matters more than speed.
Interior work also skips the weather-resistive barrier and weep screed that exterior systems require, which shortens both the material list and the schedule.
Masonry Supplies and Delivery
Stucco and plaster material ships bagged and palletized, and it is heavier than most people plan for. Our forklift trucks deliver across Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz, and the surrounding county rather than leaving a pallet at the curb.
Masonry block, brick, thin stone veneer, and bulk sand are stocked in the same yard, so a veneered wall and its scratch coat come from one order.