Give it a couple weeks to be safe before painting, 1 coat primer and 2 coats paint is the best. Use elastomeric paint if you want durability, a bit more expensive but worth it. 3/4" nap roller should do the trick. Good luck!
Painting fresh textured stucco
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I need some advice on best way to paint some fresh stucco patches.
Location is Miami Florida so yes very humid and hot this time of the year.
Here are a few pictures of the new stucco with and the vertical line textures. The brown color is the existing 40 year old painted stucco, the gray color is the new stucco.
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I have several areas that have been patched with matching patterns.
(1) How long should I wait for the fresh stucco to cure before I should primt and paint over it? 1 week? or 28 days like "standard" concrete?
(2) Due to the texture, it is going to be difficult to cover the grooves even with a thick nap roller. I am thinking I need to roll on liberally, then a brush to make sure I have total coverage?
(3) Would it be better to tint the primer to the finished color to get better results?
(4) There is a lot of hype at local home centers on 1 coat prime and paint products. Thoughts? I am going to do multiple coats, was thinking 1 coat of prime plus 2 coats of paint, but would two coats of prime&paint be worse, same, better?
Location is Miami Florida so yes very humid and hot this time of the year.
Here are a few pictures of the new stucco with and the vertical line textures. The brown color is the existing 40 year old painted stucco, the gray color is the new stucco.
I have several areas that have been patched with matching patterns.
(1) How long should I wait for the fresh stucco to cure before I should primt and paint over it? 1 week? or 28 days like "standard" concrete?
(2) Due to the texture, it is going to be difficult to cover the grooves even with a thick nap roller. I am thinking I need to roll on liberally, then a brush to make sure I have total coverage?
(3) Would it be better to tint the primer to the finished color to get better results?
(4) There is a lot of hype at local home centers on 1 coat prime and paint products. Thoughts? I am going to do multiple coats, was thinking 1 coat of prime plus 2 coats of paint, but would two coats of prime&paint be worse, same, better?
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I am running into an issue. I am going to hold off primer the rest of it until the storm passes this weekend but I tested a section of the wall.
This vertical texture is giving me a headache. It was textured this way on the entire exterior and courtyard perimeter so I don't have a choice.
At the bottom of the masonry wall is a clay tile deck. I want to make sure the paint will not smear or bleed into the porous clay tiles. So I put some masking tape down but the masking tape doesn't stick to clay very well. Then I put some tarp down and went to work. I soaked the 3/4" roller really well, then rolled it back and forth on the tray then rolled the primer on. Because of the texture, as I roll the primer on, some of the paint is "rolling" down the grooves...the front surface of the wall looks great, the grooves look OK just I see some paint in the grooves slowing rolling down. These grooves are kinda like the fuller of a sword. Some of it rolled to the bottom and form a bead. I am sure if I let it sit it will bleed under the tape.
I am not sure what I can do about this...use rollers only from say three feet from the bottom and up, and make sure the roller is not too wet, and immediately use a brush to spread/finish the primer/paint inside the grooves? Then use a brush for the bottom section? Any good ideas?
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This vertical texture is giving me a headache. It was textured this way on the entire exterior and courtyard perimeter so I don't have a choice.
At the bottom of the masonry wall is a clay tile deck. I want to make sure the paint will not smear or bleed into the porous clay tiles. So I put some masking tape down but the masking tape doesn't stick to clay very well. Then I put some tarp down and went to work. I soaked the 3/4" roller really well, then rolled it back and forth on the tray then rolled the primer on. Because of the texture, as I roll the primer on, some of the paint is "rolling" down the grooves...the front surface of the wall looks great, the grooves look OK just I see some paint in the grooves slowing rolling down. These grooves are kinda like the fuller of a sword. Some of it rolled to the bottom and form a bead. I am sure if I let it sit it will bleed under the tape.
I am not sure what I can do about this...use rollers only from say three feet from the bottom and up, and make sure the roller is not too wet, and immediately use a brush to spread/finish the primer/paint inside the grooves? Then use a brush for the bottom section? Any good ideas?
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