How to Apply Stucco Finish to Metal Buildings

A modern industrial building with light-colored stucco walls, gray metal siding, and dark-framed windows. Small shrubs are planted in a gravel bed alongside the exterior.

Applying a stucco finish to a metal building is not as simple as troweling on a coat and calling it done. Steel and aluminum substrates are constantly moving, expanding, and contracting with temperature changes and deflecting under wind loads in ways that a rigid cement-based finish cannot accommodate. Without the proper assembly, the result is […]