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Exterior Recoat with the COOL LIFE Ceramic Coating System

April 2025 · Claremont

 A full exterior recoat of a craftsman bungalow and detached garage. We waterblasted, patched stucco, replaced about 50 feet of fascia, then applied the COOL LIFE ceramic coating in blue-gray with white trim. 

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Service
Exterior recoat with COOL LIFE ceramic coating system, house and garage
Location
Claremont, Los Angeles County
Home type
Single-story craftsman bungalow with two-story rear addition
Timeline
March to April 2025, about a week and a half
Materials
COOL LIFE ceramic coating and primer, COOL LIFE COTE on wood trim
Scope
Waterblast, stucco patch, 50 ft fascia replacement, trim, doors, recoat

About This Project

A Peeling Exterior, Sealed to Reflect the Heat

From the curb, the front of this craftsman bungalow showed every year of Inland sun. The old paint had given up in wide sheets, curling off the lap siding and the porch columns until bare wood and primer showed through across the whole elevation. The homeowners were tired of repainting a house that never stayed sealed. This time the goal was a finish that would hold its color and push the heat back, not just look fresh for a season.

How the COOL LIFE system went on

  1. Waterblast. Strip the failing paint and chalk from every wall and eave so the system bonds to a sound surface.
  2. Patch and trench. Fill the stucco cracks and trench three to six inches at the foundation so the coating ties in clean at the base.
  3. Rebuild the wood. Replace the soft fascia and the front-beam molding, pull every old nail, then prime the bare grain.
  4. Hi-reflective primer. Lay the primer coat the ceramic finish is built to sit on.
  5. COOL LIFE body. Roll the blue-gray ceramic coating across the stucco and siding, matched smooth so the patches vanish.
  6. White trim. Cut in the fascia, columns, 19 window trims, and the two front doors for contrast.
  • COOL LIFE system
  • COOL LIFE COTE
  • Hi-reflective primer
  • Blue-gray body
  • White trim
  • Stucco patch
Blue-gray lap siding and white trim after a Hybrid Renovations exterior repaint on a craftsman bungalow in Claremont
The finished front elevation, blue-gray body with white trim.

Once we washed it down, the beam ends told the real story. The wood was soft under paint that looked fine from the street, so we pulled it and replaced it before any coating went on. COOL LIFE is a long-term system, you don't bury bad wood under a finish that's supposed to outlast regular paint by years.

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The detached garage, recoated to match the house.
Side elevation with craftsman band windows and fresh white trim after exterior coating on a bungalow in Claremont
White tongue-and-groove eaves, cut in to match the trim.

From the first wash to the final walk-through, this is the heat-reflective coating work we take on across Los Angeles County, including nearby La Verne, San Dimas, and Pomona.

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This house was finished in about a week and a half, start to final walk-through. Most of that time is prep, not coating: the waterblast, the stucco patching, the foundation trench, and the wood replacement all happen before the first finish coat. A straightforward home with sound wood moves faster, while one that needs fascia or beam repair like this one takes a few extra days. 

A ceramic coating lays down much thicker than standard latex paint and is built to reflect solar heat off the wall instead of letting the surface absorb it. That extra thickness also lets it bridge the hairline stucco cracks that ordinary paint tends to telegraph back through within a season or two. The manufacturer rates the system to hold its color and finish far longer than a conventional repaint. 

We replace it first, every time. On this project we pulled about 50 feet of soft fascia and the molding at the base of the two front beams once the wash exposed them, then primed the bare wood before any coating went on. Coating over failing wood only hides the problem under a finish that is meant to last years, so it gets corrected up front. 

For a home with walls that take direct afternoon sun, the reflective finish is doing real work, not just sitting there as color. The manufacturer rates the system to bounce a share of the sun's heat back rather than load it into the wall, which is the point on hot east-county elevations. You also get a thicker, longer-lasting finish than a standard repaint, so you are not back on a ladder every few years. 

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