this is chris the idaho painter in this video we're going to talk about painting stucco and specifically back rolling your stucco and there's a couple factors that we look at when we're going to determine whether we're going to back roll that stucco or not and is the stucco a smooth style stucco with no cracks in it in really good condition then we're typically just going to spray it with an airless sprayer if it's a rough style stucco has a lot of cracks we're probably going to back roll it if we're going to try to fill in those cracks we're probably going to use an elastomeric coating if we're not trying to fill in cracks we're going to just use a flat exterior house paint and we use a good quality paint to spray the stucco and back roll it with now we're going to take you outside we're going to show you how we go about actually baffling that stuck out we're going to be spraying and back rolling these walls to resolve some of the cracks in the walls and we're going to show you the process how we go about doing that we're going to be masking throwing some nine inch paper one inch tape down here with our hand masker and that's going to keep any when we're back rolling any splatter coming down on our concrete we're also using some drop cloths too to help uh keep any splatter off of our concrete uh walkways and porches and stuff but we'll be spraying our product on to actually get a large amount of the product on so we can back roll it and fill in cracks with it and then we'll be using a nine inch nap or a four inch or nine inch roller and a four inch roller to actually back roll and right behind the person's friends want to have some nice crisp lines on the bottom too so that's why we're masking it john here he's on the sprayer he's got a the sprayer hooked up and he's using a 515 tip and i'm going to be back rolling it with a roller i'll be using a nine inch roller and a four inch roller and i'm just gonna be right behind him and that way rolling it's actually pushing it into the cracks and and uh getting a better better finished product on the stucco first step i was actually just loading up the sprayer with our the actual roller with paint now we're going to get going and we're actually i'm not used to always wear a mask but we're not using masks once again because i'm trying to explain this process while we're videoing he's using a shield to keep any overspray going off the side of the wall and we just trying to limit the amount of training a cardboard shield holder and parkour field you want to be you want to be right behind them actually back rolling quickly because the paint will start to dry and absorb into the stucco the concrete really fast so the back rollers got to be right behind them the guy spraying's got to put on a lot of paint to actually have it saturated and enough to actually back roll one of the important things to back rolling your stucco is actually choosing the right roller so you can get them you know anywhere from three-eighths inch nap to a one-inch nap so if you got really really rough stucco you're going to want to jump up into a one-inch nap but choosing the right nap is is also important because if you get too big of a nap and you don't need it the larger the nap the more it splatters so i don't need it right here and if i'm using a one inch nap it's going to cause more splatter which i don't want so just using a 3 8 inch nap on this task here you actually see the cardboard shield holders he's actually using we actually sell that on my amazon store on my website the idahopainter.com so if you want to get one of those cardboard shield holders and cardboard shield they're pretty convenient handy to use ladies so we got a bush that we're working around right here we've got it tied back with some plastic i actually have a video on how to tie back bushes when you're spraying a house you can go check it out on my channel teaches you how to use 9x400 plastic to tie a bush this we're doing stucco it makes it way easier if you have two people doing it one person back rolling one person spraying because the the paint has a tendency because of the stucco the nature of the stucco absorbs all the water dries really quickly and coagulates really fast and and which causes a problem because you really don't have anything to back from because it's drying so fast one of the key aspects of actually background this stucco is when your background what you're wanting to do is actually put enough pressure with a large enough nap and roller which a lot with a large enough nap to actually push the paint in to ore the product into all the pin holes in small hairline fractures and the stucco and you want to put enough pressure to push it in there get enough paint to push it in there so you get a nice smooth even looking surface when you're done having an adjustable extension bowl is pretty convenient too you can actually find one of these extra falls that i'm using right here on my amazon store my website the idahopainter.com and you can actually purchase some of this extension pull two to four foot extension ball cheaper than you can at your local paint store so once again one of the key elements to actually doing this and doing it properly is enough pressure you don't put enough pressure you're not going to force the paint into the pin holes and actually small fractures and cracks into the stucco and you want to fill all that stuff in so you're actually putting a nice good amount of pressure you don't have enough paint you're gonna end up dry napping it and you're gonna leave um uh what we got dry napping marks all over it it's gonna look really blotchy so a lot of paint and a lot of pressure and your stucco is gonna look good