Lowe’s home improvement expert, Mike Kraft, gives helpful tips on how to paint the exterior of your house. Learn the best ways to store outdoor paint, products you will need, and techniques for painting wood siding and window trim. For more painting advice and videos, visit www.Lowes.com
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Tip for DIY’ers,…
Never use Flat paint on an Exterior. NEVER !!!
i have been painting for 28 years and it still amazes me why people tape windows if your brushing the trim.thats why i wish amatuers would leave it to a professional! ihave never seen a paint contractor paint siding with a dam roller! again leave it to PROFESSIONALS TO PAINT YOUR HOUSE! SPRAY IT AND USE A DAM SHEILD!
It should only be necessary to cover the windows completely if your spraying, waist of time
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@MrHammer80 Im a painter, and this is not how its done…
WTF??? hahaha taping and covering the whole window just for brushing??
in my 25 years of house painting I never needed a rope,I never needed hot dog rollers to paint siding,and that brand new werner ladder is nice.You don’t need masking tape unless you are spraying!Any paint that is not colored yellow or red,resists fading.Do you know about flashing?you are doing a text book mistake on your brushing technics,you are an uninformed actor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in my 25 years of house painting I never needed a rope,I never needed hot dog rollers to paint siding,and that brand new werner ladder is nice.You don’t need masking tape unless you are spraying!Any paint that is not colored yellow or red,resists fading.Do you know about flashing?you are doing a text book mistake on your brushing technics,you are an uninformed actor
@MrHammer80 i have often thought that when watching these american videos
@ch1vasdecorazon How can you say that brushing looks better that spraying?? If you know how to spray, you will have a smooth, uniform finish vs. a brushed marked paint job. I can almost guarantee that your company is one of those that promote the “all jobs done by hand” technique. Did you mention to your customers that you also charge more for painting everything by hand??
Why did you prime if you are using Valspar Duramax?? It’s a self priming paint. Why didn’t you putty the nail holes?? I can guarantee you that one person would take over a month to paint 2 coats on that house with brush and roller. I say spray the house with a Graco sprayer.
I can guarantee you that the rest of the house was sprayed instead of brush and roller. BTW, that ladder that he has does not reach the top peak of the house. You will need several ladders to paint an exterior. Why did he prime the house if he was using Valspar Duramax?? It’s a self-priming paint. I like it how they make it seem easy to paint the exterior of a house! Notice he didn’t putty the nail holes either. Amateurs!!
Great video! You should add to contractortube. com
@TrimlinePaintingInc I agree.
im a painter and i live in the uk i would love to come over to the states and show you what i can do.
I saw SOME good tips in here. I found a majority of this video to be amateurish though. Check out some of my videos for a different perspective.
An excellent video!
@KevinSarasom There’s two arrows facing down right below the video where Lowes is highlighted in blue,just click on that and then on Lowes/Videos
Where the heck are these so called printable instructions @_@ I checked everywhere!!
Daniel Larusso used this brush technique to defeat Cobra Kai
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if you do it handbrush it looks better then spraying but i will take you a extra day to finish the siding Ramirez painting
I also would have used different paint materials than shown in this video. Such as a Purdy paint brush for around the windows and a plastic grocery sack works a lot better than plastic wrap. My husband has been a paint contractor for over 24 years so I have learned most of what I know from him. A spray machine is a lot quicker than doing this by hand.
While I would use a different brush and the materials aren’t the same, I would agree with pretty much everything in this video. And @95Turbosol, while spraying the paint on is quicker and more effective, using a roller anf a brush gives it a different structure and some people prefer that. Including myself.
And yes, I do know what I’m talking about as I am educated in the trade of house-painting