Painting Metal Siding

Painting metal and aluminum siding can come to be a horror if not done right. Over the years I have worked on and repaired many homes with metal siding. Metal siding is real coarse in mobile homes. Most older mobile homes use aluminum paneling for their surface siding.

Most painted metal siding seems to last at least 20 years. The imagine for this is the paint is baked on in a factory giving it a high potential and nice seeing surface. This baked on method is used for painting aluminum and most metals siding that gives the goods a long life.

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I lived in a mobile home park for a few years and my next door neighbor's mobile home had never been painted and was over 45 years old. He would go out and washed the mobile home once a year with some Tsp soap while using a brush on the end of an extension pole to clean the home.

His mobile home might not have looked brand new but it was certainly in great shape. Over the years he had developed a few scratches and some dirt that was hard to wash off but that was about the extent of the damage to the painted metal siding.

Well we painted our mobile home and used an costly metal primer along with some costly paint from Dunn Edwards & Co... This paint worked great. We lived there for nearby four years and never had any problems once the home was painted. Having been in the building firm I knew we had to use a good metal paint primer in order for the paint to stick to the baked on paint process for the metal siding to look good.

Here's my guidance to you when painting metal siding.

1. Make sure the metal siding is clean. Use Tsp soap along with a scrub brush and scrub that baby clean. The cleaner the metal surface the good the new paint primer will stick or adhere to the old paint.
2. Follow the instructions thought about on the paint primer can when applying the primer. Do not paint below or above the recommended paint temperatures.
3. Make sure you explain to the paint salesman at whatever store you're in that you are going to be painting metal siding. Get the right paint primer.
4. I would love to recommend a paint primer but cannot because I don't want to get a phone call from whatever a few years from now telling me the paint is peeling off of their home. Let that responsibility come to be the paint manufacturers.
5. Let the paint primer dry for the recommended time as per the directions on the paint primer can. I prefer letting the paint dry at least one week. The imagine for this is some paint primer's stay soft for a while and if you paint over them immediately they doesn't seem to bond as good and sometimes will stay soft for a long duration of time.
6. Apply your final coats of paint following the manufacturer's instructions on the paint can.

There you have it painting metal siding is all in the establishment of the surface you are painting.

Have fun painting and all the time read and supervene the manufacturer's recommended instructions for the products you are using. These habitancy test their products enduringly and know the best way to apply them to any surface.

Painting Metal Siding