Stucco Finish Question

This was for non-stucco work bonding new cement to old.

To the OP: first find out what products you can get your hands on.

Around here, I can get single bags of Quikrete products, but only special order through Lowes. My masonry supply house will order in minipallets.

There are always better products out there, and there a ton of specialty stucco manufacturers. I'm using Quikrete because one minipallets isn't enough, and I'd never use 2 minipallets up. I hope.

Make sure you know whether the existing stucco used one of the polymer top coats or if it was painted.

All good point to consider !

The old paint is peeling so probably painted... What difference does it make?

You can't stick stucco to peeling paint, and depending on the paint, you may not get a good bond to sound paint.

Matching the patch to existing is going to be darn near impossible if you can't get stucco on it without it peeling later.

Who said I was gonna put stucco over peeling paint.... I would have to be an idiot to do that..

You'll figure out what I'm talking about.