"shawn" wrote in message
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Exterior, if its painted stucco which it probably is. And if its old
and chalky, pealing,etc. Pressure wash the heck out of it to remove as
much loose paint as possible, go over trouble areas with wire brush.
Otherwise you're new paint will be adhearing too loose old paint and
will come off. I would suggest calling in someone with a truck mounted
pressure washer and pump...will do a million times better and faster
than those small units.

For cracks you can fill with outdoor caulking, or use stucco patch. I
find the premixed stucco patch looks like crap and is very noticable,
so i just use a bag of stucco or stucco patch you have to mix yourself.
But you need to fill the cracks, storms push water in and can loosen
the stucco from the block. Also if the cracks are in the block which is
pretty common in florida ,as opposed to just the stucco shrinkage type
cracks, and you really dont want the cracks to come back, grind back
some of the stucco, concrete nail wire mesh over the block cracks, then
put stucco back on and match the texture.

For painting prime if your old paint was very chalky, you'll likely use
two coats of primer cause the stucco will soak it up. Then one coat of
praint will probably do it. You'll use a ton less paint if you prime
the heck out of it.

- shawn


Thanks shawn. Very sound advise. Very much appreciated.

MC