Spraying Stucco Accents | Exterior Painting

[Music] all right today I want to talk about painting stucco so I've got a house right here it's got some stucco accents on it and one of the main questions is should you back roll stucco now and then another question is should you even paint stucco anyways and in Stucco unlike the sighting the sighing itself um definitely has a really short lifespan on the sighing stuco is going to last a lot lot longer you know in our climate here you'll see the stucco accents and it kind of tear you know down into the body of the stucco those are all built up with foam this the the stuckle itself is really easy to damage but they put foam up uh staple the foam up and then they just drive um or TR drive it right over the top of that and usually you don't get cracks there but in the field of the stucco uh we do see stuckle getting cracks a lot up here in our climate this stuckle is in really good condition it had um kind of like a few dings here and there that we just filled in with a cat 5 trable elastomeric sealant other than that we don't have any cracks or hairline cracks anywhere in the stucco now should you paint stucco stucco is flat by nature but the color looks fresh and nice and it does fade over time I'm sure this um I wasn't here when this house was new it 22 years ago um it's faded probably two three four Shades lighter probably so refreshing the stucco back to its original color uh can be an option or you can just repaint it a different color repainting stucco does pose a lot of challenge cuz there's a lot of infinite number of angles to it so you can't just spray it straight on and walk away cuz you get on a ladder look down you're going to see the old color again you're going to walk to the side you're going to see the old color again that's where back rolling is going to fill in the stucco if you're using a thick paint or last americ paint it's going to take away some of the characteristics of the stucco so this stucco is in really good condition I don't want to back roll it I'm going to be spraying it with paint but I'm going to be spraying at multiple different angles I'm going to be spraying it straight on I'm I'm going to get on a ladder I'm going to spray it at a downward angle I'm going to spray it at Upward angle I'm going to spray it at the two side angle so painting cycle does take a lot more paint than it does the side of the house you got to take that into account if you're painting a whole entire house it's probably going to take you two to three times more uh paint to paint the stucco because of the infant number angles or the mount you got to load on to back roll if you are back rolling it I only back roll stucco if we've got hairline cracks we're filling in hairline cracks and then um with a cocking technique that we use a sponge cocking technique and then we go over it we spray it heavy back roll it to help hide those air hairline cracks on the body of the house the trim of the house I use a satin on the front door I use a satin typically on shakes and stucco I want it to look natural again I don't want to put a satin sheen on it I want it to be flat so we're using a bare flat I want it as flat as it can be cuz I want it to look natural so I'm going to be spraying it I got it I use an airless sprayer typically going to drop my pressure down to about 1,800 PSI today I'm spraying the stucco I've got my trch T4 out here and spraying it with a 515 tip I always use a gun extension so I can uh reach easier so I don't have to get on a ladder typically to do the stucco and then um by using an extension I'm not so close to the surface where I'm getting kick back and breathe in I've hit it once up and down and now I'm just going to hit it in a r random pattern all the way around [Music] here so you might ask you know well you know why do you have to get on the ladder and spray look looking down well yo what if the customer was up here installing Christmas lights and your Stucker was white and now you painted it black and you're going to get up here now you're going to see you know white looking down on it that's an extreme example but um we've done drastic um color changes on stucko and it's really important to you know shoot downward looking at it cuz we're doing the house almost a similar color I chos a color I felt like was the actual color of the stucco original before it faded now I don't have to worry about the garage door cuz I'm going to be painting the garage door um this is flat it's a bare Dynasty and it's a self- priming paint could go right on the metal door we're going to be doing the metal door but we'll eventually be doing it with a satin Sheen so if I shoot it straight on like this now by shooting it straight on on if I stood literally right here I would be able to see the different color cuz all the um ins and outs highs and lows um Peaks and valleys you know creates these different angles so now instead of spraying it up and down straight forward I'm going to spray it sideways coming at a different just like that and I'm not going to spray it all at once I'm not going to do all the angles all at once I typically will shoot up and down go around let that dry and then I'm going to shoot a different angle let that dry shoot a different angle let that dry cuz as it dries you end up seeing the stuff you [Music] missed my my gun is spraying in an upward angle right here so that when you're all this upper stuff is definitely going to have the other color showing through look looking down on [Music] it now I can shoot my second angle and then let it dry so I would but I wouldn't shoot more than one angle at a time so I'm going to shoot I went up and down and I'm going to shoot across looking down looking down here cuz the top of this didn't get shot from there so I'm going to shoot down the top of the diamond didn't get shot if I miss anything here you know I'm just gonna come across I'm going to shoot downward at my light you know the customer gets up here to change light bulbs they'd be looking down so you want to make sure you're spraying at a downward angle it's definitely more difficult um doing stucco if you're doing the same color to know where that you've gotten everything [Music] you can see those Stucker patches I did completely disappeared using cat 5 stucco patch this drip metal right here we're going to paint it the same color as the fascia so it doesn't matter to get o overspray on [Music] it usually what I do is I'll leave my sprayer set up all day with the stacco color you know keep coming back after it dries look at it at a different angle and shoot it again what you don't want to do is shoot your stucco once or twice and then clean your sprayer out and go to a different color cuz invariably throughout the day different lighting conditions you're going to see spots you missed so I'm going back just looking for anything light but I'm also shooting kind of like diagonally now um from this side I don't see any I think everything's covered extremely well just make it all random you don't want to shoot any consistent pattern yeah and that's [Music] critical [Music] and he or cooling their house so seal to protect from Air it's like I swear man it's like [Music]