Repairing and Prepping Stucco for Airless Spraying

this christy idaho painter here on paint live tv today i'm out here i'm going to be pressure washing stucco so i'm going to give you some tips and tricks pressure washing a stucco building this is a large commercial building it's got some damage stucco we're gonna be doing some stucco repairs and we're gonna be uh pressure washing the stucco getting ready to paint it also it's been painted before so we're just gonna be doing a repaint some of the tools it's on this high around the entire building i don't need to use any ladders other than a six foot ladder if i probably won't even need to use that because i'm going to be using a six foot extension these are must have tools if you do any pressure washing of buildings more than a single story building these things are great so six foot extension i've got two guns i've got one gun with a spray flex attached if i need to do anything spraying at any type of angle over the top or something i got a spray flex a great tool to have the uh the tip i'm gonna be using i'm gonna be using a rotating tip for most of it then i'm gonna be using a straight shot uh red tip that just shoots a straight shot if there's anything i need to reach up high that i can't reach with my extension and i'll show you that tip here shortly so two guns got my extension i've got a pressure washer set up over here i think um it's a mighty m pressure washer at 3500 psi i don't need anything big on this building but we're going to get going i get a lot of people um questions and comments about using a rotating nozzle people thinking it's just going to damage and tear up the um the substrate or the surface and it won't if you use it properly just keep the proper distance back but it actually rotates and spins so it agitates and cleans a lot better than just a straight um shot nozzle or a flat tip so the rotating tip absolutely loved them been using them probably for 15 years this is a mi-t-m 5000 psi rotating nozzle and it works great you can see this is the nozzle itself it has a filter on it too so it won't get clogged with anything we're gonna get going i'm gonna start pressure washing just gonna work my way around this building it's probably gonna take about an hour and a half to pressure wash it and then we're gonna let it dry a few days and then i'm gonna go through the painting process solo i'm gonna be painting this thing you know all alone once again so here we go let's um move on to pressure washing so i'm getting my pressure washer set up i like um i like to not have to move my pressure washer around you know at all so i've got three 50-foot hoses and a hundred foot i believe it's a hundred foot water hose so i don't have to move around my pressure washer at all and so you can sit in this one location i can probably reach the entire building you know with just um without actually moving it there's no plants and stuff that i got to work around so it would be easy to move if i did have to move it so one tip you know before you start just purge all the air out of your system so it's kind of kind of like an airless sprayer getting the air out the air bubbles and stuff and priming your system it's going to work all the air out and then i'm gonna start it up it's cold so got gonna choke this thing [Music] all right so we're working along power washing i'm almost done got uh two sides got to do the front uh there was just some things here and there um a lot of water damage down low troubled spots and that's where the agitating uh nozzle really helped you know lift up some of that stuff get some of the debris get some of the loose stucco off i got stucco repairs so i used that rotating nozzle to help do some of the stripping so i don't have to do it by hand shipping and scraping so um back here on the back there's some down low on the side some down low but the the building is actually fairly clean because it doesn't have an overhang so rain water and stuff like that has a tendency to just you know hit it when it's windy and stuff and just continually wash the thing when it rains it's been raining here for you know several weeks and so the building you know wasn't too dirty um got some plants that need to be clipped back we're gonna be clipping those plants back about two feet so we can do the painting process wear safety glasses especially with doing stucco because you have little bits and pieces of stucco flying off could hit you in the eye i've got edge eyewear safety glasses that i like wearing and i'm using um the safety glasses that are polarized so i don't have any glare coming off windows and glass stuff like that um just cruising right along i haven't needed to use this straight tip i've been using the rotating tip using the six foot extension almost the entire time even that even keeps me away from the building so i'm not getting water on me getting all drenched and it does take a little bit of muscle to hold the thing but as it flexes and sways it seems like it'd be a lot harder to maneuver but it is not it's not that difficult at all so um everything's very accessible with the um i've had to get on the six foot ladder because that extension so we're just about done stay tuned this is part one pressure washing a stucco building i'm gonna show you how i go about repairing stucco get it to match what products i use and then how i go about painting stucco this is a stucco building already been painted once before but this is um spraying and back rolling this is i get a lot of questions well when do i back roll should i back roll this is a great example there's an infinite number of ins and outs and just by spraying it alone it's not going to get the color in all those ins and outs of the stucco so you're going to want to spray and back roll ideally it's i'm good to have somebody with you i'm going to be using an inner fed roller a tight inner feed roller to do a lot of spraying i'm going to have two sprayers one spray and one back rolling and the inner fed roller is going to have be attached to an airless sprayer feeding the paint into the roller so i can spray and back roll the same time with two spares all right we're out here it's day two and we've let this thing dry now and we're gonna be doing some patching some prep work um patching with stucco patch we're also gonna be doing some caulking so we've got some cracks on the building we're gonna be doing some functional caulking and then some also some aesthetic caulking we've got some up high stuff some peeling paint and some stucco that we got to scrape so i got some putty knives a whole set of putty knives i'm going to be doing some scraping with and some patching with just going to move right along i've got a patch right here this is just a pretty much stucco patch that i'm going to be patching with just got it at my local ace hardware store but i've got some stuff up high water's getting behind the previous coatings this building is stucco but it's been painted multiple times so up high there's some peeling paint and then a little bit of damage stuck though wherever we end up with bear stucco we're going to be priming over that stucco and then we're going to be rolling over it with an elastomeric paint prior to painting it our final top coat is actually going to be flat probably a flat paint a high-end paint like a lifetime warranty coat i'm coating i'm not sure which one yet maybe duration um resilience or um there's some other ppg has one and miller paint has one we're gonna be looking at what option we're gonna use but since it's been painted multiple times before i'm just going to be going right over the top of that i want it to look like stucco so i'm going to be doing it flat so we'll just cruise right along stay with us here patching and repairing i'm going to give you some tips and tricks doing these patches and repairs so here we go it's got a lot of um it doesn't it looks like it's loose stucco but it's actually not loose the stucco this stucco is actually in pretty sound shape here what i've got is peeling paint on this so the paint this has been painted multiple times we've got water coming down this section of the building and it's causing the paint to fail right here on the stucco so we're just getting all this loose paint off i'm just scraping it i just got a level five putty knife i'm scraping this all off with and then i'm gonna take and back roll all this with an elastomeric paint to you know bond well to this but it looks like this is probably multiple coats of an elastomeric coating on here it's really thick and rubbery but i'm getting all this loose stuff out of these cracks because i'm gonna actually talk these cracks right here so trying to get everything loose out of here so fill this crack in and then when i'm spraying this building also i'll be spraying back rolling to help it bond and last now we're just going to try to seal these cracks up we don't want water getting in here winter time freeze thawing it's going to continue to crack it more so we're just going to fill these cracks up with meg elastic caulking which is a good caulking for stucco kind of like an elastomeric coating and i'm just going to dab this on here with my hands and use you'll push it in so it kind of makes it look like the stucco and not just a smooth caulking bead so just sort of dab and push dab and push on it blend it in i'm real up really high so it doesn't have to be perfect it doesn't have to look awesome because nobody will be able to tell from down below so i do have like a caulking sponge the lower stuff using a caulking sponge to dab and press and push with water um helps blend if you're concerned about it blending in but it's looking just press and push that in there and this one here did that really good the rest of this i'm just going to once again take and back roll it with an elastomeric coating let's try to get that in down in there i thought i was going to have some patches up here but there's nothing really to patch because once again this is all just loose paint that i'm scraping off here stucco is actually in pretty good shape this is all once again just water damage because there's no overhang on this building so once i get up top we'll try to figure out obviously water is coming down this whole side right here so we'll try to figure that out we do have some mildew behind this paint we have to spray some bleach some type of chemical on here to kill this there's nothing really here that i need to actually hatch with concrete hatch some of these big areas here will have to hit them with a primer first got some loose you know some of this stuff has got some really loose stuff on it so i'm gonna prime that with a primer before i put anything over it could get like some locks on something to prime that with we want to seal that up good before we put an elastomeric coating on that it'll look pretty bad from down below but it's not actually too bad i think i got everything right here that i need to get on this spot once again once again the roof my assumption is going to be that we've got water spilling over not going down the gutters right here probably spilling over running down the wall here these really hairline ones right here that'll get filled when we back roll when we're spraying [Music] [Applause] i do have a couple corners down here and some stucco patches down low i'm going to be working on right here see if i can get the wire framing bent back out basically give our stucco some backing to hang on i'm gonna try to just blend it in by tapping it and get it so it looks similar to the stucco that's on there now these pieces that are falling on the ground they'll just dry and i'll be able to just scoop them up once they're dry i think it's close to 100 degrees today so it's really warm stuff is drying really fast which isn't bad but we're going to try to just blend this in here now i'll come back and probably hit this one more time that looks pretty close to the existing stucco got some stuff around the door here we're gonna do too but that looks pretty good got our corner patched up there so we got things like these pipes coming out that were just kind of busted through the wall and no a scutchen plate put on it or anything so i'm just going to caulk these things keeps bugs out water out stuff and also makes it look finished and nicer so it's kind of simple just putting caulking around that we've do got some cracks down here on the bottom we're gonna be caulking some of these caulk some of them right here but they're starting to re-crack once again you want to use a really good adhesive caulk and a caulk that's really flexible too that's going to expand and contract with this you got some movement and settling on this building but also we've got you can see a nice big crack here you want to make sure when you're filling these things that you're actually filling the whole crack and not just skimming it over with caulking or it will crack really fast again it'll separate so i'm filling that up nicely watching the caulking go down in that crack and fill it up feel really good there are some stucco patches right here at the bottom here that will once this caulking dries we're gonna patch this with stucco right there that's a big stucco patch some of this you may have to dig out the existing caulking all this is none of it i have to dig out here one of the reasons why i like wearing gloves too just don't want caulking all over my hands and it also even says in the caulking tube says not to get it on your skin it says it can be harmful i think it says it's cancerous or something like that which is kind of interesting so i prefer wearing gloves i just don't want caulking drying on my hands and having dirty hands at the end of the day and when you're caulking stucco it doesn't have to be perfect and um you're not trying to get this like smooth bead like you would be if you're doing like the interior trim or on a new construction home you'd want your caulking to be absolutely perfectly smooth and this is just a different style of caulking you're kind of making it look rough like the we got a big crack all along this whole thing it looks like it's gonna probably take several tubes of caulk in here once again this is meg elastic so it's going to bond really good it's going to have good scratching even another option that's really good for something like this would be like big stretch if this gap is going to be getting bigger and smaller from expansion and contraction okay i'm up here one of the final steps of this prepping process is i've done the scraping and caulking i gotta prime some of these areas up here because it's i scraped off the paint all the way down to uh the bare concrete of bare stucco so i'm using a lox on this is a concrete primer sealer right here so i'm just hand rolling it over with a four inch roller on all these bare areas and it's going to give my top coat a better bite and a better bond and it'll seal that concrete up so or that the concrete or the stucco that's bare now so just a quick simple process nothing nothing elaborate four inch roller 3 8 inch nap right here locks on with no tent so i'm just up here got some bare areas and from down below you can't see as well once you get up here you can see they're worn down or bare right to the the finish stucco finish here and so i'm just being very careful i don't want to roll too fast too quickly or else it's just going to splatter paint and being up high like this you know you could splatter paint for your quite a distance i've got underneath me it's just dirt so i'm not worried about that when i get over here there's a sidewalk and stuff i want to be careful not to get anything on the sidewalk i would be laying down cardboard on the sidewalk to protect that so just nice slow easy roll with heavy pressure pushing this into those bare areas it's just going to make the once again the top coat stick better bond better to these kind of areas they're a little bit troubled a little bit crumbling help seal them up anywhere where i use stucco patch it's also a good air good idea to prime those the stucco patch also because it'll be extremely porous not primed so it's good to just roll over some locks on on those areas also all these that's caulking too i'm just rolling on and around this caulking too to seal all around the edges of this caulking too that will help my caulking last longer also if i see any cracks i can back roll over my hairline cracks right now also then i wouldn't have to do them when i do my top coat either just put a nice good heavy coat you don't want to you run your nap dry and dry nappy you want to get a good thick coat of this primer on there once again looking for anything bare any caulking i put on or any hairline cracks for stucco in idaho this is actually in pretty good shape i stucco is does not weather too well in idaho it's um because of the extreme winters freezing thawing um water likes to get in sight and stucco freezes and thaws starts to cause it to flake and crack off seal it up really well waterproof and if you are gonna put it up here in our climate which not a lot of people do not a lot of the installers know how to properly install it for this climate either if you're coming from somewhere like arizona or something that's gonna be completely different this crazy bush is all overgrown so it was not easy getting in there to prime it and unfortunately they said you can't trim it back anymore um so that really sucks but um i don't know how i'm gonna get in there but i got right here this whole window i um did stucco patch almost on this entire top of this window right here so i wanna you know prime this um see if i can and i gotta get it so i can match it another one more coat of stucco to make it match a little bit better but getting in here and getting all cut up and scratched up really sucks but we got a caulk around the window this all needs to be caulked prior to painting i'll re-caulk it with an elastomeric caulking that's how you lose five in one tools they usually get drug out of your pocket into the bushes that's it i think we got it blow everything off now all the chips and stuff and i got um you know where some of the stucco fell on the ground it'll just knock right off with a five and one so i'm just gonna knock this stuff off [Music] we're all done now doing the power washing and the prepping we've done stucco repairs caulking repairs we've done some aesthetic caulking some functional caulking some aesthetics uh stucco repairs some functional stucco repairs and some priming now we're gonna move on to day three and doing the painting solo i've got some high painting to do i'm probably going to be renting a lift because getting around there and trying to do that red band up and down ladders all day long it might be a little bit difficult for me to do i'm at my age so i'm contemplating getting the lift i'm gonna see if i can maybe get a 40 foot lift and i can just drive around here and do all that upper stuff a lot easier in one day so we're going to get on with the painting if you want to see how we paint stucco the spraying and the back rolling i'm going to be using some pretty cool tools i'll probably be using a titan inner fed roller um on this and i'll be also spraying using a titan 3000 elite sprayer so i'll be getting paint on with that and doing some back rolling with that so we're going to use some um unusual tools in this if you've never seen an inner fed roller in action stay tuned we're off to the next video day three hopefully you enjoyed this video if you got any questions or comments you know about the power washing or the prepping just leave them in the comment section down below and we'll try to get to those comments answered for you if you've got any tips or tricks you want to share just leave it in the comment section below also we'll see you on our next video 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