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Category: Stucco - Topic: Prepping Stucco For Painting

If the Stucco on your home has been on for more than a decade, is beginning to crack and the reapplication process is far to expensive and time consuming for your liking, you do have the opportunity to give your home a new feel by painting the stucco. Painting stucco is certainly one of the more difficult painting tasks and shouldn't be attempted by someone is inexperienced with painting or preparing the exterior using a high quality primer. If you're not familiar with the mentioned terms above, call a local stucco painting professional.

If you've made the decision to paint your stucco, a cleaning must be done to remove the excess dirt and grime. Try to clean and paint on the days after one another to ensure that excess dirt doesn't resecure to your home.

Once the cleaning process is over, ensure all the major cracks in your stucco have be filled with caulking. The caulking will allow the primer and paint to be applied smoothly. After caulking, you are now ready to prime your stucco. Make sure that when you prime, the days are dry and the forecast calls for no rain. Mixing rain and wet primer is a certain way to ruin a professional outcome and cost your more dollars after the project is complete. Also when priming your house leave the bottom 2" on the home unprimed. This will allow breathing of your stucco below and create an easier evaporation process when moisture builds.

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