Posted on 06/28/2018 11:03:03 PM PDT by OneVike
I’d get rid of the stucco, buy siding.
But if you paint, make sure you cover the windows properly. I just bought a house that has a very thin mist of paint on the windows; thought I could clean it off myself. Windex didn’t make a dent in it. Cleaning vinegar (intense stuff that peels off paint) didn’t work. Razor doesn’t reach all parts. I have to hire someone who can put a 30ft ladder on a steep hillside :(
Whatever you do, use the mildew killer, it’s worth it.
Think again. Do you really want to switch from a zero mainrenance exterior to one that will require regular repainting? My house is brick, not stucco, Never painted. There’s a lot to be said for that.
do whatever is easier.
It depends on your age.
If you are 60+, it doesn’t matter which way you go, you’ll probably never have to do it again................
“Oh, my, ah have a terrible case o’ the vapers... ah simply MUST retire...upwind o’ m’self...”
Here in the Albuquerque area, it's scratch coat, brown coat, finish (color) coat. No paint. Some do paint their houses after, but mostly it's just the three layers of stucco. There is also an acrylic/synthetic stucco product available, but the three-coat process is more widely used here.
I painted my ugly-as-stink salmon pink stucco a nice shade of light, dusty green (think sage). It was a stand-out against all the shades of brown on my block. There is a blue stucco house, but it was blue top coat, not painted.
It’s not a onetime thing, unless you paint afterwards. Then you cannot fog again, because when you fog the paint soaks into the stucco. If you painted, the fogging can never soak into the stucco again.
Stucco is not zero maintenance. Over time, with building movement and weather changes, it will crack. Rain also stains around the ground level. I live in the desert, most homes have no vegetation around them, but do have dirt/rocks/crusher fine, and no gutters/downspouts. All the water running off the roofs splashes the muddy dirt up on the bottom of the house and stains it a different shade of brown from standard shades of brown most houses were coated in. Repairs and patches stand out like a sore thumb.
With paint, it's wash, paint. Leave alone for five or six years, then wash and paint again. No muss, no fuss. Each time, the paint matches exactly from start to finish. Stucco patch? No so much. Heck, we have to paint the wood trim here more often than the stucco. We get driving winds with sand, so it's like sandblasting. Ugh.
Thanks, I have a sprayer, and it looks like that is the way I will go.
Thanks, good info there.
Thank you. Stucco is a porous, cementitious coating and must be sealed to prevent moisture intrusion to the substrate. If moisture gets behind the stucco, it could potentially come down in sheets. Lots of lawsuits happening now in Florida for this reason, along with improper applications during initial installation. Essentially, the stucco contractors don’t want to wait the required curing times because it costs too much money.
Yes it does, until I wake up and realize ‘am a regular Joe doing my best to make ends meet.
OK, now I am back to fogging. What yu said is what a guy at Osh told me. Usually I am leery when anyone working at Osh Home Dept and other hardware stores tell me things these days. Not like the old fays when I could trust them. Times have changed.
I guess maybe this guy knew what he was talking about. Refreshing.
Will you chip in and pay there fee?
I am in forced retirement thanks to Obamacare putting the business I worked at for 24 years out of business. Now I don’t even have insurance until I turn 62 this Fall. So I am forced to do it myself.
Unless as I said, you pay the pros fee for me.
Foggong is a type of powder paint you mix with water and then spray with a sprayer. It takes a specialized nozzle because of the sand particles. When you spray, it actually soaks into the stucco. Whereas paint seals the stucco. Once you paint you can never use the fogging technique again, because it will never soak into the stucco due to the paint.
oh i see- but you could fog again, right? Like oil stain that ‘soaks in’ to wood- you can stain again, but if you use latex stain- you can’t put oil over it- latex seals, oil soaks in-
OK, now I am back to fogging. What yu said is what a guy at Osh told me. Usually I am leery when anyone working at Osh Home Dept and other hardware stores tell me things these days. Not like the old fays when I could trust them. Times have changed.
I guess maybe this guy knew what he was talking about. Refreshing.
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Lots of factors involved with stucco including the age of the material. Stucco mixtures have changed over the years so a 1910 stucco house has a different material composition from a modern stucco house. The earlier house likely has a high-lime content which makes the lime more “flexible”, but can cause issues with bonding.
By the way, if you’re interested in some great background knowledge on interior plastering and external plastering, including stucco, I highly recommend youTube videos by Kirk Giordano Plastering. The guy is super knowledgeable and his videos are fun to watch. He has many where he does exterior stucco repair and he talks about various issues of curing, bonding, etc.
Here is a sample link to one of the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qnMStrppzo
New Order was/is a favourite from that era.
I haven’t seen many shows as an adult, but in 2012 my two sons and I got to see them in Broomfield. It was a really good show.
I knew that New Order was an incarnation of JD and that one of the group had died, but I didn’t know the circumstances. Terribly sad about that fellow. I’ll have to find out more.
One of the kids had on some compilation video the other day with various scenes, and one of the songs I kinda knew, but I couldn’t think of the name. Sounded just like NO. Turns out it was Joy Division.
(Or do what we did, move and buy a brick house)
I suggest the following solution from the Mythbusters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7w-hcOd6GA
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