Painting Metal Siding

Painting metal and aluminum siding can come to be a nightmare if not done right. Over the years I have worked on and repaired many homes with metal siding. Metal siding is real tasteless in movable homes. Most older movable homes use aluminum paneling for their face siding.

Most painted metal siding seems to last at least 20 years. The presume for this is the paint is baked on in a premise giving it a high potential and nice looking surface. This baked on method is used for painting aluminum and most metals siding that gives the goods a long life.

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I lived in a movable home park for a few years and my next door neighbor's movable home had never been painted and was over 45 years old. He would go out and washed the movable home once a year with some Tsp soap while using a brush on the end of an postponement pole to clean the home.

His movable home might not have looked brand new but it was surely in great shape. Over the years he had industrialized a few scratches and some dirt that was hard to wash off but that was about the extent of the damage to the painted metal siding.

Well we painted our movable home and used an costly metal primer along with some costly paint from Dunn Edwards & Co... This paint worked great. We lived there for around four years and never had any problems once the home was painted. Having been in the construction business I knew we had to use a good metal paint primer in order for the paint to stick to the baked on paint process for the metal siding to look good.

Here's my advice to you when painting metal siding.

1. Make sure the metal siding is clean. Use Tsp soap along with a scrub brush and scrub that baby clean. The cleaner the metal face the great the new paint primer will stick or cleave to the old paint.
2. Follow the instructions considered on the paint primer can when applying the primer. Do not paint below or above the recommended paint temperatures.
3. Make sure you explicate to the paint salesman at whatever store you're in that you are going to be painting metal siding. Get the right paint primer.
4. I would love to suggest a paint primer but cannot because I don't want to get a phone call from whatever a few years from now telling me the paint is peeling off of their home. Let that accountability come to be the paint manufacturers.
5. Let the paint primer dry for the recommended time as per the directions on the paint primer can. I prefer letting the paint dry at least one week. The presume for this is some paint primer's stay soft for a while and if you paint over them immediately they doesn't seem to bond as good and sometimes will stay soft for a long duration of time.
6. Apply your final coats of paint following the manufacturer's instructions on the paint can.

There you have it painting metal siding is all in the making ready of the face you are painting.

Have fun painting and all the time read and succeed the manufacturer's recommended instructions for the products you are using. These people test their products permanently and know the best way to apply them to any surface.

Painting Metal Siding