The Practical House Painting Guide
We have a fairly new mountain home that, because of fire danger (it is located in the San Bernardino mountains in southern California), is concrete and steel construction. The exterior finish is Santa Barbara style stucco. The south side of the building gets pounded by rain and when the temperature
Please give a step by step plan to repair a ton of cracks and paint for a stucco house (14 yrs.) never been painted before. I don’t know if it needs to be cleaned and if it needs primer etc. I see elastomeric paint is best. I spoke to a painter,
Need to paint over large ceiling that has several stretchable caulked seasonal cracks. Can elastomeric paint be painted on to accommodate the seasonal contracting & expanding of the cracks without the paint flaking off due to the contracting phase?  The caulk itself is stretchable type. If not elastomeric, then what
How do you prep a partially painted garage floor for elastomeric paint?
Hi, I have a very dark blue Matt emulsion wall. If you touch the wall it leaves white powdery finger marks. I use to have a similar colour & therefore problem on my stairs which I over painted as I thought it was the paint – obviously not. What can
We rolled our walls with SW Duration Flat light gray paint (over existing flat builder grade) several months ago. We had to fix a bubble in the wall (bad drywall patch). Rolled this spot to touch up. The paint was a bit shiny, (have never had this happen on any
Hi, I am about to paint my garage floor and would like to know what paint and process you recommend. The garage floor is approx. 30 years old and the current paint was done by the prior owner (we are here 14 yrs). The paint is missing in the typical
Hi, I have a newly painted door in high gloss. I want to paint one side in semi gloss and would like to know if I can just paint the semi gloss straight over the high gloss or will there be a problem? Thank you.
Is one coat of exterior paint sufficient if a dark brown paint is used to cover an off-white color? If so, what type of paint is best for that?
I painted my bathroom with satin Superpaint from Sherwin Williams. It is paint and primer in one. I painted over existing paint. After applying the second coat, while it was still wet, the paint began peeling off in sheets. It peeled clean off of the drywall. It only did it
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