5 Professional Recommendations For Painting Stucco In St. Louis, MO

If you’ve got a stucco home and you’re looking to paint it, there are many ways to go about it and have a beautifully painted home at the end of the process.

Unfortunately, there are also quite a few ways to do it in such a manner that you end up with a tremendous mess and a house that has to be entirely repainted all over again, and cost you an arm plus in getting all new paint and supplies.

When you have the right advice on hand, you are much more likely to end up with the former than the latter good for you as long as you take it to mind and heart.

With this being true, here are five professional recommendations for painting stucco in St. Louis, MO.

1. Use Masonry Primer Before Painting

When it comes to painting the exterior of your stucco home, you will want to dive right into it but you should absolutely apply a layer of primer first as a primer is best for preparing the surface of your stucco home for the paint that will go on.

Since you will use a primer on your stucco exterior, use the primer that is best for your home and that is a masonry primer.

Masonry primer is the exact primer that you should use whenever you are painting certain kinds of exteriors including concrete, mason block, stucco, and others.

2. Allow The Primer To Dry Before Starting To Paint

It probably sounds like the most obvious thing in the world to the professional painter, but there are plenty of people who think they can just start painting with the color or colors of their choice immediately after painting with primer.

This could not be further from the case as you need to allow the primer to fully dry before applying one or two layers of paint to the stucco surface.

By allowing the primer to properly dry you will be able to get the most use of all the properties of the primer.

3. Know When To Use Masonry Caulk And Stucco Patching Compound

When you are working with stucco, it is important that you know when you will need to use masonry caulk and when to use the stucco patching compound.

The former is used when you have a small crack in the stucco that needs to be repaired.

The latter is when you have a significantly larger crack or hole that needs to be dealt with.

Regardless of the size of the hole or crack in your stucco, you absolutely need to take care of it before you begin the painting process.

4. Don’t Paint Dirty Stucco — Clean It First

It probably sounds absurd but there are people who, in their hurry to get their home painted, will just paint over whatever is there without stopping to clean the stucco first.

It is essential that you clean stucco prior to painting it; you will want to take a stiff brush and use some cleaning product and then rinse it and allow it to dry prior to starting the painting work.

5. Double That Paint Estimate

When you are trying to figure out how much paint you will need for your stucco exterior, a good rule to follow is that you will need more than you would need for a not-stucco home.

To be more specific, you will need twice as much as you would need for an ordinary house.

If you go onto a paint calculation site and it tells you how much paint is going to be needed to cover a hundred fifty feet of house, assume that you will need double that amount of paint.

At Selah Painting, we help you choose the best type of paint and color for your project at no extra cost.

We also take the proper steps to ensure that your interior lasts as long as possible.

There are unique steps and processes that we take, which most other painting contractors don’t want to take the time to perform. 

We would love the opportunity to be your go-to interior painter in St. Louis, MO. Call us at 314-582-5272 to book a FREE estimate and let us help you enhance the interior of your home so you can focus on other things.

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