Getting it to blend is the tough part.
May 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Foundation Stucco, Recent News
Trying to match any type of foundation stucco or foundation concrete is a very difficult if not impossible task. You just never know how the color blending of your mortars or cements for the foundation stucco are going to come out. You can blend your patch material until your hearts content but when it dries it just might end up being a little darker or lighter than you thought.
First application of foundation stucco- filling in the damaged area
Close up of foundation stucco - first application
Close up of side wall
So to get a perfect match on a foundation stucco repair can require additional labor. You will require time to play around with the foundation stucco colors in order to get a good blend. Otherwise if you get a pretty good match on the initial foundation stucco repair attempt, thank your lucky stars!
Don’t grumble that the contractor
Corner foundation stucco fill-in and textured to match the existing as close as possible
doesn’t know what he’s doing. Matching foundation stucco colors can require a truly artistic eye that most installers just don’t have or else they would probably be artist instead of masons! Very few have the coloring ability to match colors in foundation stucco under the varying influences of outdoor lighting.
This particular patch displayed in the pictures was a foundation stucco corner patch. The customer was very concerned that the corner patch would stand out like a sore thumb and she was right because usually they do. I told her I could spend more time color blending the foundation corner stucco but that meant I would have to take that time from others areas around the home that she wanted us to fix as well. She was fine with that so we went to work.
This group shows the process from foundation stucco filling, texturing and then staining to match
Most of the other patch areas where on the rear and back side of the home where they were hidden or less visible. So I told her I would focus on the front corner of the foundation stucco and do the best I could.
Usually these foundation stucco corner patches can take a few days to work out if that is allotted for in the
Finally foundation stucco completed. See how well the colors blend with the existing?
job. If the repair has to be done the same day due to cost constraints then the likelihood of a perfect match diminishes pretty dramatically.
This job required a couple of days to complete so I could work on the foundation stucco corner patch every morning or right before I left for the day. This made it easier to get the match that I was after and it looks pretty good… what do you think?
