Builder paint is one thin coat, sprayed fast.
Two real coats over properly prepared stucco makes it a different house, and on the newer streets around here that is most of what we do.
Houses built fast, painted once
Riverview filled in quickly. Whole neighborhoods off Boyette, Big Bend and US 301 went up between the late nineties and a few years ago, and the paint on them went on to a builder's schedule. One thin sprayed coat, often with nothing under it, on stucco that had never seen a Florida summer.
That coat does its job for a while. Then the south and west walls start to fade, the sealant around the windows dries out, hairline cracks open at the corners of the openings, and the whole elevation goes chalky while the shaded side still looks nearly new. It reads as a house that is older than it actually is.
A proper repaint is a different animal. Wash it, let it dry, repair the cracks, cut out and replace the caulk at the openings, prime what needs priming and put two full coats on. That is why a fifteen year old Riverview house can come out looking better than it did the day it was handed over.
- Chalk checked on the west wall before anything is priced
- Window and door caulk cut out and replaced
- Cracks opened, filled, textured and sealed first
- Two coats of Sherwin-Williams, named on the estimate
- HOA color approval in writing before the start date
Stucco over frame, and where it cracks
A lot of the newer building here is stucco on lath over wood frame rather than stucco over block, especially on second stories. That wall system moves more than block does, so hairline cracking at window corners and along seams is common and it is not a sign that anything is wrong with the house.
What is wrong is coating over it. A crack that is still moving reopens through fresh paint within a season, and then the wall looks like a failed job rather than a house that needed a small repair. Cracks get opened, filled, textured and sealed first, and they show on the estimate as their own line.
Where a wall has a lot of fine cracking and takes real weather, an elastomeric coating bridges the movement and keeps water out. On a sound wall a masonry acrylic breathes better and recoats more easily down the road. Which one we recommend depends on your wall, and it is named on the estimate before you agree to anything.
Associations, palettes and the color letter
Most Riverview neighborhoods have an association and a lot of them have an approved exterior palette. That means a form, the color names and codes, and a wait for the letter. It is not difficult, and it is very difficult to undo if you skip it and pick something the board does not accept.
We choose colors with you inside the palette, put them in the format the board wants, and start once approval exists. If your community uses a management company that wants paperwork from a vendor before anybody works on site, tell us early so it is sorted well before the week we are due.
Inside, these houses are almost all knockdown texture on the walls and ceilings with builder grade trim. The interiors we do here are usually the whole downstairs at once, because the rooms run into each other and a color that stops at an open corner never looks like a decision anybody made on purpose.
Getting a price in Riverview
Call (813) 500-1564 or send the form. We will come out, look at the walls, tell you which ones need repair and which just need washing, and put a written number on it. The estimate is free, and we do them online from photos when that is easier for you.
Is the west wall looking older than the rest of the house?
That is chalk, and we will come and look at it free.
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Free written estimate on any Riverview home.
Look at the west wall and rub your hand on it. Builder paint is thin, and once it starts chalking it is doing very little for the stucco underneath it.
Yes, and it is straightforward work on a house that was built well. Clean it properly, deal with the cracks and the caulk, then two coats, and it looks better than new.
It depends on the size, the amount of repair and the weather that week. You get a real window on the estimate rather than a number designed to sound good.
Yes. We help you get the colors into the format the board wants, then we wait for the letter. Painting first is how people end up doing it twice.
Yes, and doing both together means one schedule and one crew instead of lining up two companies who each blame the other.
Riverview is on the regular run out of Ruskin. If you are inside the Riverview line, we are coming out.
Get a free estimate.
Tell us what needs painting. We come and look at it and put a real number on it.