This house exterior painting job in Port Orange shows what a spray repaint looks like while the crew is on site. The during photos were taken from the front and the side with the equipment still set up, and the last photo shows the finished front.
The house has the details that make stucco homes in the newer Port Orange neighborhoods slower to paint than they look: tall gables, an arched window framed by twisted columns, a round gable window and a lot of trim.
- Location
- Port Orange, FL
- Property
- Single story stucco home with gables and an arched window
- Surfaces
- Stucco walls, trim and fascia
- Work shown
- During and finished
Photos from this Port Orange exterior
Each photo is labeled with the state of the work, so you always know what you are looking at.
Is spraying or rolling better for a stucco house?
For most stucco walls, spraying and then back rolling gives the best result. Spray alone can leave the paint sitting on the high points of the texture.
Stucco is full of tiny pits and ridges. A roller on its own struggles to push paint into all of them, and a sprayer on its own can lay a thin coat that looks fine on day one but wears through early. Doing both puts a full, even coat into the texture. You can see the airless sprayer set up on the lawn in the first photo, with the hose running across the grass to the house.
Trim is different. Fascia, window casings and the columns around an arched window are usually brushed and rolled, because the edges have to be clean and the surfaces are narrow. That is why a house with lots of trim takes longer than the square footage suggests. More on how we prep and paint stucco is on our exterior painting page.
How do painters work around landscaping and tall gables?
Cover what cannot move, and set ladders where they will not crush anything. It sounds obvious. It takes real time on a house like this one.
In the side photo, the whole planting bed under the arched window is covered in plastic, and the ladders stand on the few open spots between shrubs. Gables that rise well above the roofline need tall extension ladders set at a safe angle, which on a narrow bed is not always easy. Plastic comes off plants as soon as that section is finished, because a covered shrub in full Florida sun will cook.
The round gable window and the columns around the arched window were the fiddly parts of this house. They get masked and cut in by hand before or after the walls are sprayed, depending on the color. It is slow work. It is also the part people notice first when they look at a finished house.
What does a Port Orange exterior estimate include?
It lists the surfaces, the prep, the product and the number of coats. You should never get a single number with no breakdown.
For a house like this, that means the stucco walls, the trim and fascia, and any repairs to cracks found after washing. Hairline cracks near window corners are common on block and stucco homes, and they get filled before paint so water cannot get in behind the new coating. Garage doors, front doors and shutters are usually priced as separate lines, so you can choose what gets done. If the house is in an HOA, we can work from the approved color list, and it helps to have that paperwork ready before we start.
Estimates are free, and they come in writing. You will also get a rough day count, and if the weather pushes the schedule we tell you early. See more residential painting jobs in the project portfolio, or call Color Masters Painting and Robert will come out to look at your house.
Is your Port Orange house ready for new paint?
Call Robert or send a request. You will get a written estimate with the prep, product and coats spelled out.