Painting your house is one of the easiest ways to bring a new look to your home even if you have an old ugly red or brown brick home. If you have a weatherboard, rendered or bagged brick home its easy to update the look of your home with a new paint job. For brick homes you can still update the look of your home by painting timber windows and old gutters and don’t forget your old garage roller door.
Painting does two main things protecting timber and metal from decay and adding style and colour to change the look of a home. But not all paints are the same, so what are the best?
Outdoor paint types
- Outdoor paint must have UV resistance.
- All good quality paint has a 10 to 15 year guarantee.
- Most quality outdoor paints are water based.
Newly Painted cement rendered house
Giving your house a new look can increase the value of your home by giving it a fresh, clean, and stylist look. Painting the outside areas of your home can be the difference in selling your home as well. Sometimes people sell their home with peeling paint making the home look old and tried and in need of a lot of work. However it also removes much more value than the cost of the paint.
Areas for outside painting
- Gutters.
- Timber windows.
- Entrance doors.
- Walls if the house is fibro or fibreboard (blue board), rendered brick, and bagged brick.
- Garage doors.
- balustrade.
- Pergolas.
Painted weatherboard house
Repainting a house is all the preparation, good technique, and quality paint. Make sure you have quality brushes and rollers and wash down the area you are about to paint with sugar soap. If it is very dirt and in bad condition then use a high pressure washer to get rid of the dirt and loose paint and then sand and repair before you apply a good quality undercoat.
How to get a great paint finish
- Step one - When weatherboards are in really bad condition I use a power washer (high pressure) to get rid of the years of dirt and then sand the whole house down using power tools and then repair any boards that need it.
- Step Two - Then use a sealer binder. This paint is mainly turps based and soaks in binding and sealing the timber.
- Step three – Give it a light sand and then paint with a top quality water based undercoat.
- Step four – Give a light sand if needed and apply two coats of quality water based outdoor paint- like Solargard, Weathershield or similar.
House painting is not hard, however good preparaetion of any surface to be painted is the key to a great a result.
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