On 3/5/2011 9:44 AM, Robert Neville wrote:
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3. Paint with a good grade acrylic latex;

Painting stucco is a very bad idea. The Stucco Manufacturers Association
recommends fog coating:

http://www.stuccomfgassoc.com/industry/tech.shtml

Here's a commercial vendor of fog coating products:

http://www.fogcoat.com/

Painting stucco may be a bad idea in some climates, but certainly not in
Florida. There is no unpainted stucco in Florida, and residential
construction is almost entirely concrete block and stucco. Unpainted
stucco in Florida would take about five minutes to start growing
mildew/mold. After the last near miss with hurricanes where I lived,
one report on damage to homes included the finding that older homes had
less damage than newer ones because they had more coats of paint -
wind-driven rain goes THROUGH concrete block. It is also recommended to
use water-based paint so that the masonry "breathes"; oil-based paint
blisters because it doesn't allow the moisture to exit. All masonry has
some moisture.