Stucco & Painting in Avondale

Exterior work in Avondale, Colorado

At 4,557 feet, Avondale is farm country. Houses here are spread out: older frame farmhouses, brick and stucco ranches from the 1960s and 1970s, manufactured homes on acreage, and a lot of outbuildings. There is no tree cover and no neighboring house to break the wind, so west and south walls take everything the valley throws at them.

Wind-driven grit sandblasts paint off exposed elevations. On stucco it opens hairline cracks into real ones, and once water gets behind the coat it freezes overnight and pops the finish coat loose. We cut out the loose material, re-lath where the paper is torn, patch to match texture, then coat. Stucco repair first, stucco painting second. Never the other way.

Painted siding and trim on Avondale farmhouses chalk out fast under the valley sun, and that is a straight house painting job: wash, scrape, spot prime bare wood, two coats. Metal shop roofs and low-slope additions take roof coating. Wood decks dry out and cup in this low humidity, so deck restoration means sanding back to clean fiber before any stain goes on.