Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Exterior Painting: Reframing your world

Our home is the glimpse of our sentiments, our feelings and our thoughts.  We build our homes once and we want it to be the best. Besides giving a proper architecture, paints add life to the structure. The look of your house gets transformed with a fresh paint.


And it is not only about the look, paint protect our homes against sunlight, rain and wind. A well-built house with a good structure needs a good exterior paint that catches everybody’s attention. Here are some tips that would help you to paint the exterior of your house.

1.   Consider nature:  Proper planning should be done before getting your house painted from outside. It is important to note here that paint needs time to dry up. Therefore, a dry time of the year, when there is less humidity and no rain, should be selected for painting the exterior of the house. 

2.   Choose Quality and Not Price: Good quality paint will reduce your chances of repainting your house, every year. The exterior walls of the house acts a shield to all sorts of threats so it is important that you choose the paint that is best in quality and long lasting.

3.   Primer plays important: It is a good practice to use a primer prior to using the color coat. Today, to facilitate you, paint manufacturing companies have combined primer and paint that cuts down the overall coats you need to apply. But these paints are more expensive. It depends on you to decide which way to go.

4.   Prepare the surface: Paints do not stick well on rough and dirty surface. It becomes important to scrape the surface well so as to create a clear solid surface on which the exterior paint will stick well.

5.   Use Brush and Rollers: You should use both the paintbrush and roller to apply exterior paint for fast and effective process. For applying paint on narrow surfaces, edges, and smaller areas, you should use a brush. A roller with short diameter should be used when you need to paint large and long surfaces such as siding and trim.

6.   Starting from top: It is always good to start painting from the top and moving down in the same flow. The bottom edge of the sides should be painted first and then the broad surfaces.  To avoid lap marks, you should brush from one wet surface to another wet surface.

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