Are you planning to paint you house? Then few steps need to be done before painting your exterior of house. This process will take times and afford. It can be done by professional or you can do yourself you have enough time and energy. You won’t let your panting to be fade up or damaged by doing wrong. So before getting started, you should have proper knowledge about this process.
Wash House before Painting
First thing comes in mind before paint is cleaning. Washing is must before painting without that paint will be feed up earlier then it should be. If you do this step in right way, paint will last longer; usually it might last 4 to 5 years. Clean all darts, warm, oil before get started it.
There are few ways to make this done, such as by professional, by hand or manual work yourself or can be used pressure washer how ever you need to decide that which option you would go for. But
Clean House By Hand
This process would be take long time and need affords, make sure you won’t leave it in middle of this work however if you confidant enough, only then you good to go, otherwise you should chose others option. Washing siding by hand is really default and darts will be still remaining while painting. So how you do it in proper way?
Use scrub brush and soap water for this job. Don’t just rush while doing it because you might missed some that was need to be focused, after paint has been done you can’t go back to fix those, only get’s your hand dirty if you have no problem by doing it
Clean by pressure washer
Pressure Washer will save you lot’s of times and you do need to much afford, to make it sort it will make this cleaning process much easier. Using this machine also have disadvantage, there are different types of pressure washer how even using wrong type could be harm your siding, so be careful while doing it. Which one we need gash pressure washer or electric pressure? We need washers that have low force of water spray so the right washer is electric one. Gash washer has high force of water spray which cost big damaged your siding
1600 PSI would be good fit for washing house, and also in electric pressure washer machine, force can be controllable, remember you should not go above 1600PSI, can less PSI can be used without facing any issues
Benefits of Cleaning House
There are many benefits for cleaning house. We know cleaning house takes time and afford and also we talk about how we can make this cleaning process faster and easier along with proper way, now you might be thinking why it’s needed! Ok let’s find out
- Be get healthy life, always house should be net and clean. You and your family will stay healthy and be happier because we know healthy life bring happiness. It will avoid from diseases in other way it will save you money from unusual medical treatment or supplements, if you fall in seek, you can’t even perfume any official and personal work, so it’s very important to have your house always keep clean
- You will be fell like a home when it’s cleaned and polished, will be felt happier to back home and will keep you stay home for long. But if it’s nasty, oily and has bed smell, you would feel seek and might not able to stay on this for long, it’s also effect mentally and physically as well
- As I said before if you don’t focus on proper washing, It will damage paint, in fact it won’t last longer, so all the work and money will be gone which you don’t want. That’s why proper cleaning has to be done before painting
- To keeping stable condition of house, it requires proper manatees and the most impotent part is keep clean, when it under the right manatees, it will looks good to you along with other people and also avoid big problem down the road
- Avoid unwanted accident in your house, you could be slept on the floor because of unclean condition or you could have even died by fire because of the oily condition of you siding, it happens when exterior of house has not been washed properly
Ok now we come to know what are the ways to clean your house before painting and also Benefits of Cleaning House. Now we need to know how to Paint Your Home’s Exterior. Here I am showing some steps that needs to be followed properly in order to make this done
Remove Damaged Paint
Before remove damaged paint from wall first make it dry and don’t start working before it’s done, once it has been done now place cloths on the ground then remove chipped and damaged paint using paint scraper
Fix Damaged Surfaces
Walk around your hose an take notes of surfaces which are damaged, there are few things to look at, such as metal, door, windows, siding, wood etc, once you found them all just fix it immediately.
Apply primer
Once Removal process was done of Damaged Paint, it good to use primer, which kind of primer you use it will depend upon then paint you will be apply. By using primer you will get strong foundation of for finishing paints
