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Posted by daszkiew2000 on July 31, 2008, 5:10 pm
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> >>I have a single story ranch style home that was built in the mid 1950's=
> >> The exterior is stucco and I am getting proposals on getting it painte=
> >> One of the beter painters in the area tells me that he sprays with a g=
ood
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> >> tip and another person is right behind him to backroll. =A0He says he =
can
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> >> roll but it will take alot longer. =A0He says that the spray / backrol=
> >> yields good results.
> >> Another painter tells me that he only rolls and that it is better.
> >> Is there much of a difference?
> > Here's an answer from a desert rat that lived in Las Vegas for fifty
> > years.
> > Spraying paint on stucco gives you better penetration and coverage into
> > all the crevices, as stucco is a very uneven surface. =A0Some say you d=
on't
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> > have to backroll if you just spray thick, but someone who offers to
> > backroll obviously knows what they are doing and willing to take the ex=
tra
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> > time. Backrolling also eliminates a lot of overlap lines that are visib=
> > on the dried painted surface. =A0There is no comparison between sprayin=
g and
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> > rolling, except spraying will probably use more paint, but what's wrong
> > with that? No matter what you do, you will not get down into all the
> > crevices with a roller unless you load your roller with about a gallon =
> > paint each time, and you'll lose half of that to gravity and centrifuga=
> > spin of the roller. Do the spray. =A0If you really want to go better fr=
> > there, check out the elastomeric stucco paints, but they take a heavier
> > sprayer. =A0These will flex and not show the small cracks associated wi=
> > stucco aging.
> > Just MHO, what do I know?
> > Steve
> Painting stucco is like painting a cement sponge. Which is why it holds
> moisture and the paint doesn't last.
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do not paint stucco. PERIOD. if you ever do ( with eg. latex exterior
paint) breathing ability of stucco will be impaired /suppressed and
you will het mold/fungus/dry rot in between stucco and the wall
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> The exterior is stucco and I am getting proposals on getting it painted.
> One of the beter painters in the area tells me that he sprays with a good
> tip and another person is right behind him to backroll. =A0He says he can=