Austin TX Exterior Painting
Painting your Austin home’s external walls can be a very important task for the good maintenance of the entire structure. The external facades of a house must be treated and cared for much more than the internal ones as they are subjected to any type of atmospheric condition that risks ruining them over time. If you have a little dexterity, the painting work could be carried out without resorting to a painter’s intervention, but you must follow precise rules to do work to perfection.
Preparing the base of Your Austin Home
Before applying the first coat of varnish, the base must be thoroughly prepared. This task is of fundamental importance to perform work to perfection. For the paint to take root in the best way, the brush must be passed through the wall to ensure it can be cleaned. Removing impurities and dirt is, therefore, the first step to paint the exterior walls.
To carry out a complete and thorough cleaning, it could be very useful to have a pressure washer. This tool will prove to be a precious ally, especially for eliminating the dust that settles on the base, and that could ruin the drafting work by sticking to the paint itself. However, it mustn’t be used at too high a temperature and with too strong a jet that could damage the surface.
If the walls to be treated are new, it is very likely to see white spots on the wall. These are salt deposits that must be eliminated with special products easily available in various hardware stores. If instead the walls are of dated houses, it is possible to see mosses or algae. In this case, just swipe the wall with the brush and, for a better job, use bleach diluted in equal parts with water or special anti-mold products.
Exterior walls that have already been painted in the past may not take the new dye well. Thus, it is necessary to pass a special primer in the bottom, which guarantees an optimal grip.
Before starting the work of drafting the paint, it is necessary to cover all the parts that must not be painted with gummed paper and special sheets that can be very useful for protecting the plants and bushes in the garden.
Applying the paint
The paint must be prepared by mixing the paint with a little water. To better protect the color, special products can be used that prevent the premature appearance of algae and molds such as anti-mold and anti-algae concentrates.
For a work done in a workmanlike manner, the corners and edges must first be painted. For a homogeneous result, one coat is not enough, and further interventions are necessary. The last coat must be given without diluting the color, and the brushstroke must be done by making cross movements of the brush to make sure that the bristles’ streaks are not seen. To obtain maximum hiding power, it is advisable not to wait for the product to dry but to carry out the single passes on already wet parts.
If a roller is used instead of the brush, make sure that it has long hair that can absorb the right amount of dye. The roller allows us to obtain a more homogeneous result and, also, in this case, it is necessary to carry out cross movements.
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