I looking into updating a 1920’s 3-season porch. The interior walls are all stucco as is the exterior of the proch. The porch is enclosed with windows but has no heating/cooling. I know it’s not advisable to paint exterior stucco but could paint be used on the interior stucco? Any prep or suggested paint?
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I'd spray with latex using an airless if you have it. If you can get a 1" or 1 1/2" nap you could also roll it, depending how textured it is...
Why is it not advisable to paint exterior stucco?
My house is stucco, and it's painted...
(and it could use a "freshening-up" with a fresh coat)
The thing with exterior stucco is that once it's been painted, you're pretty much stuck with having to repaint it again and again and again for ever...
I don't own one myself, but there are a lot of stucco houses here in Minneapolis. As I understand it, the best way to freshen up the looks or to change color is to have a stucco company put on a dash coat that's been colored to suit.
My first house was stucco and I painted it since I had made repairs to cracks and what not. I don't own the house anymore but I drive by everyonce and a while and see the paint peeling. Unless you keep up with the painting I would hate to see how you prep peeling paint on stucco... I've since been told to "Dash" the stucco with a pigmented masonary product. I myself haven't ever done this.
> I've since been told to "Dash" the stucco with a pigmented masonary product.
It's more stucco. They call it a "scrub coat". Stucco is like a very hard sponge, it can hold lots of water. So, painting it is kinda like trying to paint a sponge. It doesn't work so great if it gets wet. Expensive elastomeric coatings work, and will also bridge small cracks.
-- J.S.
I painted my house with elastomeric paint. The cost difference was not that big. Labor is the same. Here the paint difference was 10.--/gal. I have not repainted for 12 years now. Still looks very good. We live in the wet NW coast area
Can you apply it with an airless sprayer?
I thnk my wagner would be strong enough. It shots Sheetrock "First Coat"
My 1926 house had 15-20 year old latex on the stucco over several old coats of paint. It was in really good shape with very little lifting but we wanted to change the color. I sprayed mine with a borrowed Wagner, normal latex. Valspar brand, it looks like the day I sprayed it a couple years later. In my little area there are dozens of rentals like mine, all stucco and not kept up to my standards. The old paint however holds up longer than it should!
I rolled mine on. Better control, heavier application
Ive painted it a lot .
Thing is if its been painted somebody already jumped off the clift anyway.
Tim
Hmm. My next door neighbor's house is peeling badly in big sheets, thick stuff with coarse sand in it, but she was told it was paint, not stucco. My house isn't peeling at all. It has had patchwork done in various places and the color over the patches doesn't match exactly, but it's not lifting one bit that I've noticed. The trim has clearly been painted many times (white, brown, dark green...).Except last night I just found a little bit of peeling on a horizontal surface at the top of a decorative box. But on the whole, what appears to be latex paint seems to be holding up well. Mostly it's just dirty.My neighbor is disappointed in the peeling on her house because it was a special "stucco paint". It's thick, and I'm assuming probably elastomeric. The paint on my house is a much thinner film, by comparison.
Edited 2/9/2006 1:16 pm by Rebeccah