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Great occupation on cleaning the exterior of your home! There are just a couple more steps to accomplish before we attack the task of in truth painting the exterior of your house. The basi task to finish is to make a list of all of the materials that you will need to buy prior to painting your home. I will supply you with a somewhat exact list of what you will need, but do not forget that it all depends on the size of your house. In terms of efficiency, it may be better to pick up all the materials that you will need after dropping off the pressure washer… may save you a little time and gas. You may either go to Lowes or Home Depot for these general painting supplies. So here is a mutual list of materials that you will need to paint your home:
These are the basic materials that you will need to buy in order to paint the exterior of your home. Keep in mind that you will also need a 6′ step ladder (Perfect for all those locatings on the original level of your home, 20′ Extension ladder (for the peaks on a ranch style home), a 28′ extension ladder ( for a two story home), and a 40′ Extension Ladder for a three story house. My recommendation for ladders is to just buy a 6′ ladder; it seems that you will always have a need for one allround life. If you are painting a two story house I would rent a 20′ ladder for two days for all the lower emplacements (because it is really, genuinely easy to move around equated to a 28′ ladder) and then rent the 28′ ladder for one day just to paint the peaks. The same goes for a three story house… except alternate the 28′ ladder for a 40′ ladder. Tip: make sure you ask the place you are renting from if the ladders have levelers on the feet. This is of the utmost importance because the ground you will be placing the ladder will closely never be a flat spot. You will also need to rent an airless paint sprayer for one day or two; depending on the size of the home and a couple other things. So there is your painting list for your little project. Not sounding so little any more is it? Well, don’t worry… It does take a little time, but in the end it will be well worth it. How long does it take to paint the exterior of a house? Well, with all the materials purchased / rented, it must take one person five days from start out to finish (8 hour days). Obviously the more humans that you have the more immediate it goes! Now that you have all of the materials for the job, the next thing to do is to go around and re-caulk your entire house. Check the trim around the windows, doors, and peculiarly the trim pieces at each corners of your home (These seem to get the most abuse). If you haven’t applied caulk before on a house, pump the caulk out of the gun with a thickness of with regards to the size of a pencil around the necessitated areas. It is a good idea to caulk one little section and then rub your finger along the freshly used caulk, pressing it into the seam. This will help the caulk to attach to both subdivisions and fabricate a smooth seam among the trim and siding. Tip: recompense special attention to the emplacements next to down spouts from your gutters. This has a tendency to have the most moisture and damage… So it will need the most TLC. One mutual problem that I run into with the trim that hangs just underneath the down spouts is that it is completely rotted away. In this case, I will replace this division of trim to keep from further corrosion of anything else. Once you have re-caulked your entire home, the next step is to scrape off old paint that is peeling away. You may do so with a paint scraper and go over it with the sanding block. It’s of the utmost importance to have everything end up smooth and consistent so you don’t end up with your house looking choppy. Remember, if you scrape off old paint and may see the bare wood, you will need to utilise primer to those areas before new paint may be applied. The next step is to get started masking off everything that you don’t want painted; starting with the windows. Take your blue tape, plastic and masking dispenser and cover your windows so that when you spray your home, the overspray doesn’t get on the windows. When masking everything else, I would commend using the regular masking tape. Remember, the more time you spend covering everything up, the posing no difficulty it will be later. |
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