The Practical House Painting Guide
A few years ago we had a water line break on the 2nd story and had to repaint a large part of our 1st floor ceilings. Now repainted the ceiling areas and they are peeling all the way to the drywall paper. Unpainted areas are fine. Did contractor potentially paint
I have a wooden deck that was painted by the previous owners. It doesn’t look like the paint is very thick and they didn’t even paint the whole thing. I would like to either re-paint or stain but don’t know what’s the best route. I’m going to power-wash the deck
Is there proper drying time between power washing cedar siding and application of water based stain?
I have a dining room with light oak furniture. The hall color that comes into the room is a lime green. There is a lot of natural light. What color would you suggest for the walls?
On the front of our house, we have masonite lap siding. Overlapping the lap siding on the edges, there is 1 x 6 inch wood trim. There are, thus, triangle gaps along the edges all the way down. My question is, should I caulk those in when I repaint? They
Is there a particular sandpaper/product to remove the old paint and smooth out the fiberglass? What type of paint and what kind of application? ie..brush, spray, etc.?
I am painting a 100 year old back porch which has lots of old layers. The last coat was a water based coat put over a previous oil based coat and is obviously chipping and coming up. I am sanding it now. My question is do I need to take
When you paint over painted walls do you need to use primer paint first? I have been told if you don’t the paint will not stick. Is this true? Because it would be cheaper if I don’t use primer or two coats of paint so I can budget for my
We have just painted the siding a dark moss brown and have lighter brick with salmon and light brown/tan tones. We did the trim in a cement/off white color around the windows. New roof will be a color called resawn shake, which has dark and light browns flecked with a
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