Skip to main content
Stesso

Choose Flat Paint for Stucco

1:53
6:25
608.7K views

At 1:53 in

4 Secret Painting Tips To Paint Stucco

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

Choosing the right paint sheen is crucial for painting stucco. The second professional tip emphasizes using flat paint exclusively for stucco surfaces. Unlike paints with a sheen (like satin), flat paint dries to a matte finish that perfectly mimics the natural appearance of stucco. A significant advantage of flat paint on stucco is its ability to blend seamlessly during touch-ups. If an area needs re-painting or a repair needs covering later, flat paint can be applied without creating visible overlaps or differences in sheen, which is a common problem with glossier finishes on textured surfaces.

Goal: Select the correct paint sheen for a natural stucco finish and easy touch-ups.

Tools and materials

  • Flat Paint — Painting stucco surfaces

What they say

Hide

and that's it. Now we'll paint it and it shouldn't show up at all. So, professional secret number two is painting with flat paint. So, when we're painting stucco, we always want it to when it dries to look like true stucco. So, we got a flat paint we're using here. I know a lot of painters will use a satin and when the satin dries, then it has a a sheen to it. And then one of the things about flat paint also is that it touches up a lot easier. So, when you go back, stucco is really difficult. You got to spray it a lot of different angles and stuff like that. And if you miss anything, you can go back and spray it right in the middle, anywhere, any angle, and it's not going to show. Touch-ups are really easy with flat paint on Stuckco. So, secret number two is using flat paint. So, professional

Auto-generated from the video audio.