Your home exterior is one of the largest continual surface as far as painting goes — it goes all around your home and is most often the first impression people will make of your home.
A good painting job will make the difference between people thinking well of your home or perhaps less well — and it often comes down to the things that we do or avoid doing during the painting process.
By following some basic tips for exterior painting and avoiding certain key mistakes, your exterior painting project will go much better.
With that being the case, let's have a good look at some exterior painting do's and don't's when you want a well painted home exterior.
When you're looking to get your home exterior painted, you are going to want to make the time to measure the surfaces first and foremost.
The benefits of doing this are numerous, including the fact that you are going to be able to figure out how much paint and primer you will be needing for getting the project done without either running out or finding yourself with a storage shed full of excess paint and primer.
You're also going to find that you will be able to plan out the painting project, including times for you to take breaks — an important part of any good painting project but especially when you are painting the exterior of your home.
Though we do have much love for our pets, the one thing that you are not going to want to do is to just allow them unrestricted wandering time while you are painting your home exterior.
Pets are full of joy and energy and that's just the kind of thing that can easily lead to your paint spilling or getting knocked over.
As much as you might want to see your dog or cat while you are painting, you can just imagine the chaos that would ensue if they were to get entirely covered in paint and then run around the painting area spreading a mess.
Make sure that you don't have your pets out and about while you are painting and you will avoid these sorts of problems.
The weather that has absolutely no impact on an interior painting project but can have a significant force on your exterior painting project on account of the fact that the weather will directly be able to come into contact with the paint and primer you are applying to your home.
If you see that it's going to be raining during the day, you should certainly not spend that day applying paint to your home exterior as this is just the sort of thing that would be quite ruinous — painting issues come about thanks to this sort of behavior and you want dry weather instead.
Additionally, unless you are using a top-tier paint approved for weather conditions, you are going to want to make sure that you aren't painting when it's too hot or cold — rather you want a mostly overcast day that's not too hot or cold (it affects how quickly the paint will dry which radically changes the appearance of the dried paint.)
Lastly, remember that you are not going to be doing yourself any favors if you just try to paint your home exterior without first thoroughly cleaning it first.
By cleaning your home exterior, you're going to be making it much more receptive to the sealer and paint that you are going to be subsequently applying to the surface and it will not look at all like a dirty surface that has had primer and paint applied to it.
It's key that when you do this you are also going to allow your home exterior to fully dry before you start the next step in your painting project so that you don't get any painting issues that tend to come with applying primer or paint to a moist surface.
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