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Posted by JIMMIE on May 9, 2008, 8:06 pm
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> >> I had to sparay paint the walnut stain on the wood trim of my mostly
> >> white stucco house. =A0Brush painting would have been very long and
> >> difficult to do by myself. =A0There is some overspray of dark brown on
> >> the stucco. =A0What is the best paint or material to use to cover up
> >> this overspray. =A0I am thinking of quicklime whitewash. =A0But where d=
o I
> >> buy quicklime from?
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> >Quicklime! =A0A paint fashonable 100 years ago. =A0I think a quality late=
x would
> >stand up better than a coat of baked limestone slurry. =A0If you want, yo=
u can
> >usually get it in the garden dept for adjusting the acidity of the soil.
> >How it is mixed to apply to a house is lost to me. =A0I think they mixed =
it
> >with milk and water. =A0If you go that way maybe you also want to make so=
me
> >homemade red iron oxide barn paint to complete the turn of the century lo=
ok.
> >(rust, eggs and milk as a binder, all stuff farmers had in abundance).
> >Neither paint was stable for long and streaking due to rain is expected f=
rom
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> >You can't buy either, you have to make it yourself. =A0Here is some more =
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> >I found:
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> >http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4095/resources/recipes.htm
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> Thank's for the link and the garden supplies source. =A0I originally
> came from the Far East where we used whitewash, a cottage industry
> using burnt seashells and old coral, for painting concrete walls. =A0I
> am quite familiar with their properties as paints. They flake off
> around something like five years as they absorb CO2 and change into
> carbonate, a property useful in my application. =A0At least quicklime is
> quite similar to stucco and will weather similarly. White stain won't
> have the covering power. =A0Using latex paint to cover the overspray I
> think will risk weathering that will produce tattered strands of latex
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I used to have a neighbor that whitewashed his stucco house. When he
passed away his childrnen sold the house and the new owner used a
latex paint. It looked nice at first . Its my understanding that they
should have either kept on whitewashing it or used a free chalking
paint.
Jimmie
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