I've gotten some bright red paint on my white stucco. How do I paint over it? I've never painted stucco and want to know the best way to cover given the stucco is so textured.
Most good exterior paints should work. A primer and a couple of coats of paint should cover the red. The textured surface will make painting a little more work, but it should work. I would get paint at a Sherwin-Williams store and ask them for rollers or other tools that work well for textured stucco.
OMG how horrible that this happened to you! I think the only thing to do is primer and paint like Steve G said. Good Luck ans hopefully it never happens again.
Try spraying a heavy coat of easy off oven cleaner on it. Let it sit at least a hr then use a water house on it. Easy off will remove paint. I've used it on concrete before. Worked great.
Catch the monsters that did it and make them paint it, just like the fence in Tom Sawyer, only you can say when they are done! Seriously prime and paint with an oil based exterior paint like eveybody is saying. You could try the oven cleaner down low to see if it works.
Lots of great advice here. I like the easy off idea. You cannot make it any worse at this point anyway.
Tracee D suggested Dryvit, and perhaps they mean using their top coat over the wall. Dryvit, is a manufacture of stucco. In fact the oldest manufacture in the US of this product. but what you have is a traditional type stucco on this home and although they do sell traditional stucco systems
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now, this is not what their main product line is about. A good quality primer, as suggested followed by a good coat of paint on the entire wall should do the trick.
Had you a EIFS system such as manufactured by Dryvit or Sto, etc. (this is the one with the foam boards behind the stucco) You would need to use a special primer that does not seal the wall. The paints used on these types of wall systems must allow for moisture vapor to move through the finished surface. A regular house paint on such a system will cause moisture build up behind the lamina causing rot and decay of the wall system.
Looking closely at the wall system you have, it is also apparent that over the years repairs have been performed on it. You may be better off priming the red, then re-coating the entire wall with a new top coat of stucco. This will remove all the unevenness and seal off the red once and for all in the process.
I would cover the red with KILZ and then paint over with the original color using a roller head made for stucco and rough surfaces. A good hardware store will have both.
So Scott - just HOW did this happen anyway? It doesn't sound like it was valdalism since you took ownership by saying "I've gotten some red paint . . . " However, it does look suspiciously like it was kinda slung on there!!
Sorry to see this happen Scott, such a bummer. I've heard of using elastomeric paint with stucco to allow it to breathe like Woodbridge talked about above. It's interesting though, I went to a local paint store here in Pittsburgh and they had never heard of elastomeric paint before! But I've used a stucco paint from Home Depot after making a repair to one of our rentals and it worked out just fine. The brand I believe was Behr. You could always call Behr and ask their opinion as to what
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type of primer to use on your type of stucco, I'm sure they'd be helpful. By the way, here's a link to Behr's Stucco paint. Sorry for the lone link!
A New Creation Painting (alexandria, va.) kilz oil based primer/sealer will cover it.(it looks like it will leave an imprint of the piant thickness.) If it is a latex paint you can use goof off to remove it, then kilz.
Home Repair, your right, Home Depot from what I understand does not have the elastomeric paint. But any good quality exterior paint will work, as long as its not on an EIFS lamina. As that is what needs to breath. Elastomeric paints offer breathability and will not crack as easy as its makeup is designed to move and stretch with the movement of the surface of the material it is applied to. This paint works well on vinyl siding as well.
Most good exterior paints should work. A primer and a couple of coats of paint should cover the red. The textured surface will make painting a little more work, but it should work. I would get paint at a Sherwin-Williams store and ask them for rollers or other tools that work well for textured stucco.
Of course -- primer first!
Tracee D suggested Dryvit, and perhaps they mean using their top coat over the wall. Dryvit, is a manufacture of stucco. In fact the oldest manufacture in the US of this product. but what you have is a traditional type stucco on this home and although they do sell traditional stucco systems ...»
Had you a EIFS system such as manufactured by Dryvit or Sto, etc. (this is the one with the foam boards behind the stucco) You would need to use a special primer that does not seal the wall. The paints used on these types of wall systems must allow for moisture vapor to move through the finished surface. A regular house paint on such a system will cause moisture build up behind the lamina causing rot and decay of the wall system.
Looking closely at the wall system you have, it is also apparent that over the years repairs have been performed on it. You may be better off priming the red, then re-coating the entire wall with a new top coat of stucco. This will remove all the unevenness and seal off the red once and for all in the process.
http://www.behr.com/dsm-ext/v/index.jsp?vgne...