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I have just finished stuccoing a house and the color I added to the mix did not satisfy the owner. We have found an elastomeric paint that is supposed to hold up well and has a huge variety of colors. the slaesman says it won’t peel or chip and it helps protect against water. Does anyone have experience with the stuff or know of alternative finishes to color with?
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We've used this with success. You can get it with or without aggregate. You can get it with a variety of aggregates, from sand to quartz particles. Usually you order it according to the application method, which can be troweled, rolled, or sprayed. We were able to get 6" x 6" sample cards made up in a variety of finishes, which helped with decisions.
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do you know the brand of paint? I like the idea of spraying. thanks
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I'm using Senergy brand. This week just finished spraying a sand finish with a hopper gun and it came out great. The coverage of hairline cracks and little flaws in the hand-troweled stucco was phenomenal. The regular primer I used on the walls just highlighted the cracks. Ordering some elastomeric without the aggregate on Monday. Plan to spray it with my new paint sprayer. Can let you know when I see how it works.
*I can't believe that people are still buying into the idea of painting stucco. The manufacturers are taking people for a ride......and the end user takes the heat.You should never paint stucco. Especially in the S.E. where the humidity is high. In the desert it may be a different story. But it is still not the best way to change the color of stucco.Check out this picture of what I am saying:http://www.ornamentalplaster.com/poster/posts/5.htmlHere you can see 180 year old columns that someone had painted this elastomeric coating over.The stucco had rotted out so bad the handrails, that went into the columns, had to be replaced. The foundation of these columns were in danger of collapsing and they just looked plain bad.When peeling this junk of the columns water just seeped out....like tears.Bad stuff, this elastomeric coating is.If you want to change the color of your stucco do it the right way.......stucco right over the old stuff. This is known as a "re-scrub" in the trade and is the appropriate method.Brewskiehttp://www.thehomeforums.com
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I have just finished stuccoing a house and the color I added to the mix did not satisfy the owner. We have found an elastomeric paint that is supposed to hold up well and has a huge variety of colors. the slaesman says it won't peel or chip and it helps protect against water. Does anyone have experience with the stuff or know of alternative finishes to color with?
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What Brewskie says is very interesting.
It sounds like this elastomeric coating is a moisture barrier, and what happened there is that the old moisture barrier was still mostly intact, so you had the old major no-no of two moisture barriers with room for water to collect between them. This scares me because my parents just spent $13k getting this done to their house. My place, which is 74 years old, has the problem that the old tar paper moisture barrier under the stucco is mostly failing. I was hoping that this coating would be the right way to replace it. Any advice?
-- J.S.