I spent a good chunk of my Saturday trying to figure out how to stucco a 3’x3′ spot on my house where a window used to be. We have a 1929 house with painted stucco.
Since it’ll have to be painted to match, and the patch is on the side of the house no one sees, I thought I’d try this myself.
The local stucco supply house sells the 3-coat system, but when I went there, they strongly suggested that I not use that system for just a 3×3 patch…namely because they said it’s difficult and that they only sell in minimum quantities that are way more than I need for that 3×3 spot.
So, they recommended the acrylic(?) patch stuff you can get at the big-box stores.
I checked that out. The product is called Stucco-It. The problem is that instructions are incredibly vagues. It appears that you can only layer it on in 1/4 layers (which means I’d need 4 or 5 coats) and that you apply it to rigid foam…not wire lathe…which seems odd.
Anyways, I finally discovered that Quickrete sells consumer-sized bags of ‘real’ stucco, so I do have that option too.
Does anyone have any recommendations between the two? Is Stucco-It that much easier, and, if so, is it a suitable way to patch a spot on a house with traditional stucco?
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I found the real stuff...surprising, at the home depot.
They have top-coat, and then something called 'mason mix' which you're supposed to mix with 'plaster sand'. Of course, they claim to have mason mix (as the sign showed on the rack) but no one there could find it. Also, no one knows what plaster sand is...I assume that's just fine sand?