Smooth Stucco Exterior Pitched Roof

Customarily stucco was often paired with flat roofs and clay tile roofing material but people find the surface so attractive you ll now see stucco on homes with pitched roofs and paired with.

Smooth stucco exterior pitched roof.

Stucco is a long lasting durable siding material popular on homes in many parts of the u s particularly in the west and southwest. Smooth stucco finish costs 8 per square foot or 770 for a single story wall if it s a fresh installation. When installing smooth stucco over a wall that already has textured stucco it costs 4 50 per square foot or 435 for an eight by 12 foot wall. It s versatile and offers homeowners a customized look of their homes.

A plaster like material that is traditionally made of lime and sand and water today stucco usually also incorporates portland cement. But if your home was built in the 1970s to 1990s your stucco may have a more heavily textured look. It s almost maintenance free since you only need to do a thorough inspection of it and to clean it once a year. Today a smooth stucco texture is the trend in both new construction and renovations.

Well maintained stucco exteriors can last for 50 years or more. In certain parts of america particularly in the southwest the predominant building siding is stucco. In this video i go step by step showing how to properly apply smooth finish stucco.