Painting exterior foundation products?

[finally]

Does anyone have recommendations for painting the exterior foundation?  I may tackle that this weekend.  I have a raised ranch so there is quite a bit of surface area to do in the back of the house.  I'd like something that I can just put on and not have to scrape what is already there.  It's peeling a bit but not badly.

[mrspez07]

I think we used the Behr porch and patio 2-3 years ago. It is still a deep red, so holding up pretty well.

You can color match to any of their colors, but in our case, I was either off, they mistinted or it tends to be more saturated than the sample, for awhile I thought it was TOO red, DH thought it was fine.

[magdala]

I painted the foundation at my old house a grey instead of the existing white after we installed a slate patio. The white looked dingy next to the new blue and red slate. I had to use a stiff brush to brush off the flaking paint. Once I had brushed off the extra flakes, a grey cement paint went up easily with a wide low nap roller. I didn't need to do any scraping. It still looked good when we sold, three years later. One tip that I learned was to match the paint to your foundation material. When I used a brick paint on my cement foundation, it had to be repainted in a year because the paint wore unevenly in that year.

[megstoo]

You're going to want to get rid of what's already there. When we did this we used a stiff metal brush and a pressure washer. We used paint from Sherwin Williams - I forgot what it was called but it's held up perfect. It's been 4 years since we did this but it still looks good.

1 thing we learned was to watch the weather. You need perfect conditions and no rain in the forecast for a few days and plan on this taking all day (or weekend).