About Plastering Solutions Inc, a family stucco company in San Jose

Plastering Solutions Inc did not start with an office or a payroll. It started with Jose leaving a union job he had held for twelve years, and Luz stepping in to build the side of the business he could not.

Before Plastering Solutions Inc existed, Jose Dominguez spent twelve years with the plasterers and fireproofers union, Local 300, working his way up to foreman. He ran crews of nine or ten men across San Francisco and Silicon Valley, on airports, convention centers, professional sports stadiums and large corporate buildings. Local 300 trains plasterers and fireproofers as two separate trades inside the same union, and Jose worked both, spraying stucco on one side of the trade and fireproofing material on the other. For a period he also served as assistant to the instructor of the union apprenticeship training program.

As a foreman, Jose noticed the ceiling that came with the job. Staying a foreman inside a union crew was not going to take him much further, so he looked into what it would take to get his own contractor license. The process took close to a year. He got the license at the end of 2018, left Local 300 that December, and started Plastering Solutions Inc with Luz.

While Jose learned the trade, Luz built the other half of the business. She studied industrial engineering in Mexico before the couple started the company, then took a bookkeeping course in the United States that ran about a year so she could take over payroll, licensing, permits and the books once Plastering Solutions Inc was underway. Today she serves as CFO.

Jose did not leave a stable union job to build another company that skips the parts a customer cannot see. Twelve years inside an apprenticeship trained union crew showed him what training and safety look like on a jobsite, and what tends to happen on residential remodels when that structure is missing.

Plastering Solutions Inc is still the company Jose and Luz built. It is family owned and women owned, licensed, bonded and insured, operating under California contractor license 1044105, Class B (General Building) and C-35 (Lathing and Plastering). Since 2018 the team estimates it has completed roughly 500 projects. The crew carries a combined 132 years of trade experience into every project. Se habla español.

If you want to see how a job runs from the first walk to the final walkthrough, that is the process, and what customers say is in their own words.

Behind every estimate and every finished wall is a specific person. One customer put it plainly in a review: he was “actually able to speak to a live person.” Jose and Luz lead the company, and their own years count inside those 132 alongside the crew who run the jobs and the people who keep communication moving.

Plastering Solutions Inc supports two organizations consistently through the year. Most years, the company both attends and sponsors the annual fundraiser gala for Open Doors to Future Possibilities, an organization based in Alameda.

Every job that comes through Plastering Solutions Inc still passes through the two people who started it. Jose still walks jobsites personally. Luz runs the financial side, from payroll and permits through to deposits and invoicing.