Stucco & Painting in Pueblo

Exterior work in Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo sits at 4,692 feet where Fountain Creek meets the Arkansas River, and the building stock runs old. Bessemer and the blocks around the Union Avenue Historic District are full of 1890s to 1920s brick and frame homes. Belmont is mid-century ranch. Pueblo West and the newer south-side subdivisions are hard-coat stucco from the 1970s forward, and that is where most of our stucco repair work lands.

Pueblo gets roughly twelve inches of moisture a year, hard UV at altitude, and hail most summers. Three-coat portland stucco moves with every 40 degree day-night swing, so you get map cracking across the field and diagonal cracks off window corners. Patch the crack, then coat. A breathable acrylic or elastomeric over sound stucco bridges hairlines. Stucco painting at two coats minimum is what keeps water out.

The older brick and frame houses need different work. Wood siding, trim, and porch posts on a 1910 Bessemer bungalow want a full scrape, spot prime, and two finish coats, which is straight house painting. Low-slope roofs on Pueblo commercial buildings take roof coating. Decks off the south side burn out fast under the sun and need deck restoration every few years.