Painting grey/white bricks.

Brick work on house needs painting as some of bricks have lost their color. Original bricks were ordered from Mississippi and are over-sized. After years of wear on steps and around porch from pressure washing all I see is a dirty red color. How can I paint these brick to

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Painting Exterior Brick House

I have a brick house that has not been painted in 20 years. The front of the house is duller than the other sides of the house in color. How long should exterior brick painting last? Would it be wrong to just paint the front of the house?

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Stop water coming into a latex painted concrete block wall.

We have a new concrete block wall that was built to seal off an entrance to the building. Without doing some homework, it was painted with a regular exterior water based semi-gloss paint. Now we are having problems with the water seeping through the wall once in a while when

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Failing concrete block and paint.

After the last paint job on our block building, the paint is failing and the mortar and block is too. One contractor suggested moisture from inside of heated office areas was causing outside to fail. Inside is sheetrock and has never been an issue since 1978

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Painting aggregate.

My house is pink in aggregate, yes pink. We would like to paint it in brown or tan. Can it be done and how? Its a very small house! thank you for you time!

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Exterior concrete foundation bricks.

I live in a house that was built in the late 60’s (as inexpensively as possible!) and it has concrete bricks as its foundation (full sub-ground basement). Back in its day, the exterior of the brick was ‘painted’ with some sort of black sealer that almost appears to have a

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Alligatoring Paint

Hi, My husband recently painted the surface of our stone cast house and the paint has crackling (alligatoring) on the final finish. This is only noticeable if you look closely. Will this have to be rubbed back or will it be OK? The house has been previously painted and has

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Dry brushing exterior brick

My exterior brick is red, black and gold. Where the red and gold meet on some of the bricks, it is an ugly rust color. I don’t want to paint the entire brick surface because of possible future maintenance issues. I would like to apply a dark tan color over

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