Once all the prep work is complete it’s time to start painting.
You may wonder is it better to roll or spray the exterior of a house?
There are advantages to each method. The paint will be applied much thicker if rolling on the paint, which may give you better coverage than if it was sprayed. When a house is rolled it eliminates the risk of overspray.
I initially thought I would roll on the paint, but with the rough texture of stucco, the coverage was not good at all.
We purchased a siphon feed spray gun, which was not the best choice for painting the exterior of a house. It’s better for painting furniture. Oh well, live and learn. It still worked. It was just a lot slower at applying the paint.
Painting the exterior of a house with a sprayer is much faster than rolling. Even so, it still took us about 2 weeks to paint the entire house. We worked on it in the evenings and on Saturdays.
We applied 2 coats of paint with the sprayer on the body of the house.
For the pop out of the stucco we used a high density foam roller and a dark charcoal color called Peppery by Behr. First I cut in with a paint brush under the eaves and then rolled the remainder of the pop out. Once again with 2 coats of paint for full coverage.
All of the wood trim was also painted with 2 coats of the dark charcoal color as well as the garage door.