Does your wooden house need repainting? If the paint on your facade has started to crack and look worn, it's time to repaint the house. Find here practical tips for successful exterior repainting work!
Wooden houses need attention and care from time to time. Exterior paint might last years and even more than a decade, but even good paintwork won’t last forever. It is good to plan a repainting project already before the paint surface is in condition to crack, flake or look worn and faded.
Before starting your wood siding repainting project, make some critical checks and decisions. These include choosing an optimal paint quality for your house. Your preparation work and paint choice can save time, money and the environment.
If you are hesitant about how to prepare and which exterior paint to choose, use our planning checklist for painting a wooden house.
Opaque exterior wood paints Ultra Matt and Ultra Classic provide excellent durability and weather resistance for wood sidings. Both are safe choices whether the previous paint is waterborne or oil-based. Elastic and durable Ultra paints don’t flake.
Vinha is an opaque and semi-matt structural cover. This paint is also suitable for wood facades previously treated with acrylic paint, oil paint or translucent wood finish. Durable Vinha is excellent for maintenance painting. Despite an opaque finish, it leaves the grain of the wood beautifully visible.
Consider buying the whole amount of paint in one go to avoid mistakes in tinting the paint. Try our paint calculator which can help you in evaluating the paint consumption.
Ensure you have all the necessary utensils, materials and paint products before starting the work. Include scaffolding or steady ladders for working safety and protection materials for covering the surroundings and those parts of the building that should not get dabs of paint.
Take a good look at the walls: are there any spots of paint flaking or detaching? Use a scraper to remove the flaky paint and sand the walls with sandpaper.
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