Important Exterior Painting Tips Denver Homes

Exterior Painting Tips For Denver & Colorado

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Giving you latest exterior painting tips for Denver & Colorado, higher elevations than most of the rest of country. Listing below important tips painting exteriors for your homes in Denver CO.

Colorado is also one of the finest places to live, with mild summers, mild winter days throughout winter season. Living in the Mile High City has many benefits, too numerous to mention, full of family fun and activities.

Living closer to the Sun, does have it's drawbacks, with intense uva-uvb rays, Sun Block is highly recommended for many skin types for extended outdoor activities. Even with Colorado's Sun, living in Colorado is well worth it.

Just as Sun Block is recommended for your skin, a fresh pliable elastic paint coating is recommended for your home's exterior siding and trim.

If you don't care for your skin in Denver's arid dry climate, many things can happen unnecessarily to increase premature aging.

Proper Exterior Paint Protection

Same goes for exterior siding and trim. Without proper paint protection, your Colorado homes' exterior is susceptible for deterioration beyond repair. One great difference between skin and exterior siding, exterior siding can be replaced for a lot less money than skin that makes up you.

Providing your home's exterior with proper vitamins, will ensure a long lasting durable substrate, which those vitamins are today's 100% acrylic latex paints. Exterior paints manufactured by some of the best paint manufactures in the country. Regularly using their products, insures lasting beauty also sustainability in the Mile High City.

Best Exterior Paint Stores in Colorado

Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin-Moore, Kwal-Howell, Devoe, Glidden, Valspar, BEHR,  also Old Western Paint is a good start, where to find such quality. These top companies have spent millions each year, refining their products with Research and Development (R&D). All testing paints developed for Colorado's harsh climate.

Exterior paints have come a full circle in quality and durability, normally lasting 10-25 years, using such can guarantee no siding replacements will be on your mind. Just in case, Eco Paint has skilled siding carpenters making most siding replacement a breeze, except for the pocketbook.

First Sign Siding Needs Exterior Painted

Exterior Painting, Lakewood, CO

Exterior Painting, Lakewood, CO

This exterior siding is repairable to ease anyone's mind, so bare with me. At first glance, one may think the siding installer's air compressor air pressure was set too high.

Normally setting air pressure for pneumatic nail guns about 40-45 psi, these guns do not operate at too low or too high air pressure, so this is not the case.

What is going on this Masonite™ siding is exterior paint has completely dried out like a chalkboard. New homes are generally "Fog coated" with the thinnest layer of exterior painting possible, as no mill thickness quality control is in place with most production home builders.

First Signs Exterior Needs Repainting

Least amount of exterior paint dries out much faster, giving that chalkboard look and feel. What takes place after paint has dried out, a further breakdown occurs with exposed nail heads. The Masonite™ siding is a superior exterior siding, however without the proper paint coating protection, nothing will hold up.

Moisture follows the line of least resistance, soaking around nail shafts, thereby swelling out siding like a sponge. If this is allowed to continue, siding will be non-repairable, and not even paint-able, so remember; The highest quality exterior paint is only as good as the substrate it is covering!

How to rectify this problem so swelling does not continue is to fill these nail head polyps with the proper filler. Most unfamiliar painters will try dabbing a touch of latex caulk in and around nail heads.

Problem with this, is exterior caulk stays shinny for the life of it, and exterior paint dries out at some point. What you will have after a new exterior paint job will look OK at first, but just wait a few years till the next time to paint, and you will have a poke-a-dotted exterior home with shinny spots everywhere a nail was covered.

Crawford's_Exterior_Spackle

The solution is to use an approved exterior Crawford's Exterior Spackle. Crawford's Exterior Spackle provides the most common and popular exterior filler, coming in a quart can. Taking a little longer to apply, than an ever so quick and easy caulking gun, Crawford's Spackle dries very quickly to a flat finish. As new exterior paint dries out, nothing stands out starring you in the face, like the poke-a-dotted Dalmatian greeting you everyday as you drive up.

So, the next time exterior painting is on the agenda, make darn sure to use the proper sealants and fillers for exterior siding surfaces, you'll be glad you did in years to come. Crawford's can be dabbed into hole, smoothed excess for a professional look once painted.

Hope this has been informational for you. Gaining new and I feel important tips, out of it. Wanting to set the record straight, filling in nail holes, before painting exterior siding.

Painting over 30 years, Cal Phillips and Eco Paint, Inc. leading the painting industry here in Denver, with Denver's painters, painting Colorado.

Eco meaning "Economical as well as Ecological" with very competitive exterior painting costs. Also providing superior Siding Replacements throughout Colorado, if needed.

Please leave a comment, as we would love to hear from you. If you have any exterior painting concerns, give us a call today to schedule a Free In Home Color Coordinating Paint Estimate.

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