Best Methods for Painting the Exterior of Your House

When you first start to paint your home your options are almost endless. You've hopefully taken care of which colors you will use and have the necessary materials you need but now what? Where do you start painting your home? How long should it take? What can I do to get my house painted faster and more efficiently? These are all questions homeowners have before they start this massive undertaking. Hopefully these questions and a few others will be answered here.

Where do I Start?

First you will need to go around and prep your house for painting. This will require power washing the house and scraping and priming any spots where old paint is peeling away from your house. Lastly prime any spots where there is bare wood or spots you have scraped.

The important part to prep the entire house first. This way you aren't spending time switching between different sets of tools. It also helps minimize mistakes because you are scanning the whole house for the same flaws in your current paint job.

Now What? Prepare for a rainy day

When you take time out of your busy schedule to paint your house the last thing you want is for it to rain that day. You can protect against this by taking off the downspouts of your gutter system. These are the vertical shafts that channel water from your gutters to the ground below. They easily come off with a screw driver. I don't recommend doing this if you plan to take multiple weeks to paint your house or if you live in an area where strong heavy rain storms are frequent. If you do choose to go ahead and take down your downspouts you also have the advantage of being able to not only paint on a rainy day but you also have less obstacles when your painting the rest of your house.

Your Ready to Start Painting Your House!