Painting cracked stucco.

Please give a step by step plan to repair a ton of cracks and paint for a stucco house (14 yrs.) never been painted before. I don’t know if it needs to be cleaned and if it needs primer etc. I see elastomeric paint is best. I spoke to a painter,

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Addressing rust spots on a stucco home

I own a home in San Francisco whose stucco is showing random rust spots. At first I thought that the stucco was not thick enough and/or the lath or fasteners were not of the proper type but now I am more inclined to believe that iron specs contaminated the sand

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Finish a front door or not?

Should I use any kind of finishing product over exterior, red paint on a front door that is metal?  Client wanted a dark, barn-red color, and we know red tends to fade quicker than a lighter color…would a finishing product such as a poly or clear coat help extend the

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Customary practice for painting soffits?

I hired a contractor to paint the exterior of my house, including trim. They were clear about certain exclusions – the (aluminum) fascia, the vinyl window trim – but the contract calls for them to paint the “eaves” (we agreed that referred to the bottom of the area where the

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Previous painted trex problems

We bought a home with a front porch that had dark green paint over a trex covered front porch floor. It looked like it needed a spruce up so we had it painted with Behr exterior gloss porch and floor paint in a lighter color. What a mistake! A week later

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