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Power Wash
Do-it-yourselfers who decide that they want to tackle the job of performing their exterior painting in Vancouver Washington on their own do have the right idea when it comes to pressure washing before painting. Just like the interior of your house, when it comes to an exterior paint job, dirt and debris need to be removed first.
The mistake that we’ve seen over the years is a homeowner who actually ends up stripping the paint, even though they don’t mean to. This is not the goal or pressure washing and is why so many people call our trusted crew at Elegant Painters in Vancouver.
Power washing is an important step. Not only does it take off dirt and debris that is built up because of the outside elements, but it also will be very effective at removing that flaking, peeling paint that may be currently on your home’s exterior. After our pros conduct the pressure washing stage of the siding painting process, we’ll move on to the next step which is to apply primer. After that, there’s a latex finish coating that’s normally applied.
A lot of homeowners who don’t call professional house painters will not use their power wash equipment effectively. This is because so many times they use too much pressure or too little. A professional pressure washer has a couple of types of nozzles, depending on the need of the painter at the time that they are conducting the power wash.
When professional painters need distance, what they’ll use is a circular nozzle on the end of the pressure washer. Whenever we need to use a stream of water that shoots out sort of like a fan, there’s a nozzle that has a particular shaped line opening to provide that specific type of sprayed water that’s needed.
Primer
Probably one of the largest mistakes that we see is when do-it-yourselfers try to paint without using primer. Although most of the time this is a mistake that we see them make on the interior of a home, primer is just as important on the exterior.
Primer is what is put down before we conduct your house painting in Vancouver. What we’ve seen do-it-yourselfers try is to think that they can get the same kind of look in their finished paint job if they skip using primer.
The fact that primer can take several hours to dry (depending on the amount of humidity versus cool temperatures), many folks sometimes feel that it’s just too time-consuming and that the primer itself is unnecessary. They couldn’t be more wrong, because the primer is the protective coating that insures that the paint will have better adhesion to the surface.
Caulk
A lot of folks who try to go about doing exterior painting on their own don’t really know that caulking is a major step in the process. But caulking is so important that there are actually companies out there that are dedicated to nothing but caulking.
Professionals know that it’s an art form. Although caulk may look good as you are applying it, after the paint has dried and a little time has passed the job that an amateur did versus one that’s done by a professional will be easily distinguished.
For the most part, there are two types of caulk in particular that professional painters utilize on a regular basis. One kind that our professional house painters use in Vancouver is called sealant, which is referred to in the industry as “painter’s caulk”. The other type, adhesive sealants, are very thick, and act as sort of a form of glue.
A frequently made mistake when homeowners don’t call professionals to do their exterior painting when it comes down to caulking is that they don’t pay enough attention to the type of it they get and end up purchasing the wrong kind. For example, a large majority of do-it-yourselfers are not mindful of the exact purpose of a certain kind of caulk. Therefore, it may not be the right one for their home painting project.
When conducting exterior painting, we professionals always pay attention to things like whether or not the caulk is supposed to be used indoor or outdoors. We also are sure that the caulk itself is waterproof. This feature is important in a place such as Vancouver where it rains more than other places in the country annually.
Paint
There have been countless instances where we will approach a job that requires us to perform side painting where we will notice that whoever applied the last application of paint didn’t know if that particular paint was supposed to be used outside or inside. For exterior painting jobs, you want to get paint that’s particularly for that purpose. As professionals with several years of experience, we know that there are distinct differences between interior and exterior paint.
Exterior paints have softer resins than paints that are used indoors. Being that the paint will be up against mother nature, it has to be strong enough to fight against tougher conditions. Indoor paint won’t hold up as well when it comes to things like quick changes in temperature.
The amount of moisture in the air also makes a lot of difference in an exterior paint that has softer resins, in that it fights against high humidity a lot better than interior paint. Exterior paint also doesn’t fade as easily, and when it comes to inevitable occurrences such as the accumulation of mildew, it is greatly prolonged.
No matter what color you choose or how big the job is, our trusted professionals at Elegant Painters in Vancouver will perform a wonderful exterior paint job on your home or business every time.
