Stucco & Painting in Manitou Springs
Fox Coatings and Exteriors handles stucco repair, exterior painting, deck restoration and roof coating in Manitou Springs. We work the steep lots off Ruxton and Canon Avenue, the historic core along Manitou Avenue, and the newer builds up on the hillsides above Fountain Creek.
Exterior work in Manitou Springs, Colorado
Manitou sits at 6,412 feet in El Paso County, right at the mouth of Ute Pass. The town's older frame and masonry buildings carry a lot of hand-applied stucco and plaster, and at that elevation it moves. Freeze-thaw cycling opens hairline cracks at window corners and parapets, then meltwater gets in behind the coating. Stucco repair comes first. Then stucco painting with a permeable finish, so trapped vapor can escape instead of blistering the film off the wall.
Manitou's canyon walls put a lot of houses in deep shade on the north side and full western sun on the other. That split wrecks finishes at different rates. South and west walls chalk and fade from high-altitude UV. North walls hold moisture and grow mildew. Hillside decks take snowmelt off the roof all winter, which is why deck restoration and deck painting are steady work here.
The Manitou Avenue business district runs a lot of low-slope and flat roof sections behind those storefronts, and flat roofs up here get hammered by UV and by water that freezes where it ponds. Roof coating extends that membrane without a tear-off. For shops, galleries and lodging along the creek, commercial painting gets scheduled around the season. Estimates are free, written and itemized, and we run two coats minimum.
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Colorado Springs, CO 80919