Skip to main content
Stesso

Select Paint and Prepare Airless Sprayer

2:10
10:18
23.5K views

At 2:10 in

Spraying Stucco Accents | Exterior Painting

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

Choose a flat paint to maintain the stucco's natural texture, as satin finishes might create an undesirable sheen. The presenter uses 'Behr Dynasty' flat paint for this project, noting it's a self-priming paint. Set up an airless paint sprayer (Tritech T4 is used here) with a 515 tip. Adjust the pressure to approximately 1800 PSI for optimal atomization and control. Attach a gun extension to the sprayer, which helps in reaching higher areas without constantly moving a ladder and minimizes overspray near the user. Also, prepare a paint shield (a piece of cardboard or metal attached to a handle) to mask adjacent surfaces and contain overspray.

Goal: Gather necessary equipment and select appropriate paint for stucco

Tools and materials

  • 515 Tip — Optimizing spray pattern for stucco
  • Airless Paint Sprayer Tritech T4 — Applying paint to the stucco efficiently
  • Gun Extension — Reaching higher areas and reducing overspray near the user
  • Paint Shield — Masking adjacent surfaces and containing overspray
  • Flat Paint Behr Dynasty — Coloring and protecting the stucco surface

What they say

Hide

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

Auto-generated from the video audio.