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On Jul 31, 2:33 pm, "Billy Pilgrim" wrote:
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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
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. He says he can
roll but it will take alot longer. He says that the spray / backroll
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. Some say you don't
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
extra
time. Backrolling also eliminates a lot of overlap lines that are
visible
on the dried painted surface. There is no comparison between spraying
and
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
of
paint each time, and you'll lose half of that to gravity and centrifugal
spin of the roller. Do the spray. If you really want to go better from
there, check out the elastomeric stucco paints, but they take a heavier
sprayer. These will flex and not show the small cracks associated with
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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Preaching to the choir. To be honest. I never really knew why. All I
remember is the stucco houses that had been paint usually didn't hold up
well. After some Usenet kooks started to flame me, I looked into it and now
it makes perfect sense. It's like painting a sponge. Any water that gets in,
and it will, soaks the sponge causing the paint to peel. Also, potentially
causing damage to the sub-wall because the paint won't allow the stucco to
dry out like it's supposed to after a rain. Anybody that was seen a dark
stucco house after a rain would know what I'm talking about. The walls are
soaking wet and have to dry out.