Gulf South brick home protected by Rhino Shield breathable ceramic coating

Brick Painting in the Gulf South | Paint + Protection.

Unprotected brick lets in mold growing moisture. Protect your home. Shield your family.

Brick and mortar are full of tiny pores. In the Gulf South, those pores pull in humidity, wind driven rain, and salt air all summer. The water gets in and does not get back out on its own. It sits in the wall, feeding mold and mildew behind the brick long before either one ever shows up as a stain on the surface. That slow buildup is Climate Cancer, and porous brick is one of its easiest ways into your home.

The problem with brick painting

Most brick painting makes the problem worse.

Ordinary brick painting lays a film across the face of the brick. That film seals in the water already inside the wall. The brick can no longer breathe. Pressure builds behind the coating, and within a few Gulf summers you get bubbling, peeling, and a repaint bill every five to seven years. Standard brick painting does not protect your home. It hides the problem, then hands you the bill.

Rhino Shield Climate Proof Ceramic Coating is not paint. It is a breathable ceramic system built for this climate. Bonded ceramic microspheres let water vapor escape from inside the wall while sealing the outside against rain and salt air. Your brick vents and stays dry. The color holds through Gulf UV. The system carries a 25 year transferable manufacturer's warranty, and when my crew finds damaged wood during prep, we replace it before we coat instead of recoating over it.

Coastal brick sealed with breathable ceramic coating in Gulfport

What you actually get

Home health, family health, and equity.

One coating defends the three things that matter most about your home.

Home Health

The wall breathes, moisture leaves, and the mildew and efflorescence that keep coming back on painted brick lose the water they feed on.

Family Health

When exterior moisture stops moving into your walls, you cut the conditions that grow mold behind them. Drier walls, cleaner air inside.

Home Equity

One coating replaces four or five repaint cycles over 25 years. The warranty transfers to the next owner and shows up at closing as a protected, maintained home. Figured across 25 years, Climate Proof Ceramic Coating runs about 600 dollars a year, against repainting your brick every five to seven years.

How the diagnosis works

I don't give estimates. I give diagnoses.

Kevin Mmahat, Exterior Home Protection Consultant

Walk and read

When you book your free Home Protection Consultation, I come out myself. I walk every elevation, read the mortar joints, find the efflorescence and the moisture line, and check the wood behind the brick.

The honest diagnosis

I tell you what your walls are actually doing. If there is rot or failure behind the brick, we replace the damaged wood before any coating goes on, because coating over rot only buries it.

Prep, seal, coat

My crew preps the surface, reseals every joint and seam where water gets in, and applies the ceramic system. You get an exact written number before a single thing begins.

Real Gulf Coast homes

Gulf South brick, protected.

From the brick shotguns and Garden District homes in New Orleans, to the brick ranches across the Capital Region and Baton Rouge, to Old Metairie and the older brick along the Mississippi coast.

Gulfport Coastal Brick

Gulfport, MS

Problem: Porous brick absorbing salt-laden moisture, efflorescence and mortar erosion.
Protocol: Tuck-pointed mortar, breathable ceramic coat that vents vapor while locking out water.
Outcome: Dry walls, no more efflorescence, brick that breathes.

Brick Coating Questions

Your questions, answered.

The questions homeowners ask before they book.

Yes. The system is formulated for brick, stucco, wood, Hardie, and other exterior surfaces. Brick is one of the surfaces it protects best, because brick is porous and needs a coating that breathes.

No, and that is the opposite of what happens. Ordinary paint traps moisture. This ceramic system is vapor permeable by design. It lets water vapor out of the wall while keeping liquid water and salt air from getting in. The wall dries instead of drowning.

No. It follows the surface and keeps the natural brick texture instead of laying down a thick, plasticky paint layer. Color is custom matched to your home during the consultation.

The coating removes the exterior moisture that mold and mildew feed on. Once the trapped water is vented out and new water is kept off the wall, the mildew streaks and the damp stop coming back the way they do on painted brick. If growth has already taken hold, we treat existing exterior mold and mildew before the coating goes on.

Once brick is painted or coated, there is no practical way back to bare brick, and that is true of ordinary paint too. That permanence is exactly why the choice of system matters. If you are going to cover your brick once and forever, cover it with a system that breathes and is warrantied for 25 years, not a film you will fight every five to seven.

The coating is built and warrantied for 25 years, and the warranty transfers if you sell. Compare that to repainting brick every five to seven years.

A professional exterior brick repaint typically runs $3,500 to $10,500 nationally, about $7,000 on average, and then you pay it again every cycle. A repaint is cheaper on day one and far more expensive over 25 years. One Climate Proof Ceramic Coating ends the cycle and adds a documented, transferable asset to your home.

Service Areas

Brick painting, city by city.

Pick your city for local detail, or call and we will tell you what your home needs.

New Orleans · Baton Rouge · Lafayette · Mandeville · Covington · Metairie · Houma · Kenner · Bay St. Louis · Gulfport · Biloxi · Ocean Springs · Pascagoula · Mobile