pishta
I know I'm right....
Painting my house this week flat white with black trim and the PO had a heavy gray texture coat put on it eons ago. This isn't the shot 'small curd" cottage cheese stucco, this is the 1/8 inch tall globular skim coat stuff that is tinted a color and applied with some sort of trowel or something. Well the "Doesn't peel, crack, chip or fade" advertising line is all bunk. It was faded to just short of white, there were square inches of it gone at the base of the house (exposing the nice small curd easy to paint stucco!) and hairline cracks everwhere. So I bought 10 gallons of exterior flat latex paint ($53 a gallon at Dunn Edwards, but my neighbor has an account so I got it for $23!) to start on a 1300 square foot house with many windows and a 2 car garage door that didnt get painted so the area wasn't that big to start. This texture coat increases the surface area of the house probably 2 fold so I was out of paint rounding the 3rd corner and the whole backyard side still needs to get sprayed! I even primered the original finish with 5 gallons but the primer was clear so I couldnt really get a sense of coverage. Bought 2 more gallons today to touch up the 'striping' that I can see now in the direct sunlight with a 3/8 nap roller. What a PITA, I cleaned and gave the sprayer back to my maintenance man neighbor so Ill be rolling the rest. Very difficult to paint a light color as the nooks and crannies of this crap makes it look dark in sections on how the sun is hitting it. F this stuff! NEVER DO IT IF YOU PLAN ON REPAINTING IN THE FUTURE! Unless you can get paint for $5 a gallon and love painting....with 3 coats shot from different angles.