When your home’s exterior appearance look worn out and tattered, many homeowners shy away from doing any renovations due to the expense. You can consider painting your home’s exterior in order to give your home a fresh and updated look. In order to look more aesthetically pleasing, exterior painting gives your home an opportunity. A coat of exterior paint is like adding a layer of protection to your home from outside elements, nature can be rough on your home’s exterior surface. Today, we at United Home Painting & Roofing would like to offer a quick guide to painting the home’s exterior.
What are the Steps to Painting the Outside of a House?
You need to know that the entire paint job is not easy but painting your home’s exterior is a great way to increase your home’s curb appeal. In order to get excellent results, it should be done correctly. Below are the things to do before an exterior painting project should start.
1) Calculate amount of paint you need. Running out of paint in the middle of your work is the last thing that you would want in your painting project. Determine if certain areas of the exterior need to be painted, or the whole exterior. Decide which colors you would like on the sidings and trim. Make sure you calculate the right amount of paint needed for your project.
2) Exterior of home needs to be pressure washed. Since the paint will not stick on a dirty surface, painting a dirty exterior is just a waste of time and paint. Through the use of pressure washing, is the best way to remove mold and mildew that is stuck to your sidings. Making your wall ready for the new paint, it will not just remove the dirt, but it will also clean up the old peeling paint. Make certain to wash the exterior from top to bottom.
3) Exterior damage needs to be repaired. You will notice that any surface flaws are more visible once you have cleaned your exterior. Make sure to deal with the damages on your exterior first so that it will not catch attention later on before you start painting your exterior. Fix broken shutter hinges, fill in all the cracks and holes in the walls, and re-caulk or reseal your doors and windows before you start painting.
4) Primer coat application. A must in every painting project is applying a primer. In order to provide a consistent base for the topcoats of paint later is the main purpose of a primer. To prevent it from appearing on your finishing coat, it also seals or hides stains on your wall so that it won’t appear on your finishing coat. Since the paint may soak in your wall which will require more coats, painting your exterior without a primer may use more topcoats. You can ensure a quality exterior painting project and get these things done.
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United Home Painting & Roofing is readily available to provide exterior painting services and ensure it is done correctly.