Stucco or Paint?

RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By Larry (Guest Post) (05/29/2008) Long time ago you painted over stucco or have a gray house. Today they have colored stucco. I want to restucco over my old stucco. What is the best way to remove the paint? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By lori (Guest Post) (04/08/2008) I have a stucco home in California. It has been painted with elastomeric paint and all is well....except I now want to change the texture of the stucco. Does the paint need to be removed before stucco can be applied? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By Jeff Finns (Guest Post) (03/05/2008) You should NEVER PAINT stucco! As someone already mentioned, moisture gets between the paint on the stucco and the moisture proof paper that is attached to your structure's studs. If mold forms in there, it can crawl up the moisture barrier and into your house. There are many contractors in this country who are not educated in this area and will still tell you its okay, because they have seen it all of their lives. There is a chance that you will never have a moisture/mold problem if you paint stucco, but is it worth that chance? Stucco is suppose to breath. If your stucco touches dirt at the bottom of your exterior wall and that dirt gets wet when it rains or for any other reason. The moisture will crawl up the stucco that is under the ground where there is no paint and into the area where it gets trapped between the paint and the moisture barrier. Then when that wall heats up in the summer and the moisture expands, it will then push the paint off the stucco. Thus peeling your paint or brewing mold. Stucco breaths and the moisture barrier keeps out the moisture. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By Hector Velez (Guest Post) (03/14/2007) I want to stucco the exterior of my house, the plaster I have now is rouge but it has paint on it, could I stucco over it? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By sarah (Guest Post) (09/09/2006) I have a question. I have a cinderblock wall that has an un-even stucco coating. Then I painted it. NOW, I would like to re-stucco it and make it smooth. Can I stucco over latex paint??? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By David (Guest Post) (09/06/2006) Where can I buy Tricoplex? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By Nirav (Guest Post) (02/01/2006) We have a house in chicago with Stucco. We recently had it painted and i guess they used the wrong type of paint. It keep craking and peeling off. Now the painters are saying to wait till it all falls off again to repaint it. Is there a quicker and safer way to take off paint of stucco. And does anyone know what was done wrong that caused the all the paint to crack and fall off? Please let me know thanks Nirav Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By Bill (Guest Post) (12/29/2005) I'm an Architect in Houston. You should use an elastomeric paint. We use this on new stucco as well. It stretches to hide any hairline cracks that form. It also keeps moisture out. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By Barbara (Guest Post) (09/18/2004) My parents owned a stucco home which I inherited. Purchase exterior paint with Tricoplex. It's an additive especially for stucco. It allows the paints to flex with changes in temperatures. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post By Rosalie Mangen (Guest Post) (06/24/2004) My parents house is located in South Texas. It is also stucco. My dad learned long ago to make a soup from cactus (boiled cactus & water strained) and mix that with the paint. It worked 30 years ago and last year, when he had the house painted, he had to tell the painters how to make it. You can't put it on with a regular roller. A Brush, mop type and possibly a sprayer might work. If you are doing it yourself, try a small area in the back that few people will see. It worked for my family. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Stucco or Paint? Post by Jamison'sMom (2) | (06/23/2004) Contact We live in Florida, and many homes here happen to have stucco on their exterior walls. When you put regular housepaint over stucco, you have two problems: #1 the stucco soaks up a lot of paint, and you will need to do several extra coats in order to get complete coverage, and #2 moisture. We have insane humidity issues here, and water can get trapped in the stucco and cause bubbles in the exterior finish or worse, mold problems! Mold damage can make humans sick, and it can kill pets. The only way to repair/eliminate major mold problems is to completely rebuild the affected area, and remove all of the contaminated structure. One of our neighbors used a special mold-inhibiting sealer before painting over the stucco finish in his master bathroom (another high-humidity area) and he said that the results were great. I'm not sure if this would work on an exterior wall, because it requires that the stucco be completely dry, but if you live in an area that doesn't get much rain in the summer it may be worth a try. Call your local paint store/Home Depot/Lowe's and see if they can recommend a quality primer that you can use to seal the moisture out of your stucco. It's worth the extra time and $, since it may prevent major problems in the future. (cost of 10 gallons of sealer = $100 or less, cost of replacing an entire exterior wall due to mold growth = several thousand $$.) Report Spam or Abuse