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Homeowners often update the appearance of their houses with a coat of fresh paint. However if you’re considering painting the ‘bricks’ on your home then there are a couple of things you should consider before you break out the spray guns and throw a party!
Painting coarse faced brick, block, or stone is unlike painting anything more you will ever have to paint. The significant difference is volume of work needed and the amount of material. These kinds of surfaces will use 2x as much material as any other. Being that these surfaces are so porous, they act like a sponge.
The labor comes in with the amount of effort needed to work the material into these surfaces. It is slow, hot work. The materials used as far as paint are not any different from any other paint except there are a few special products that do about the same job as regular paint. They may be a little heavier for better hiding. Like wood and metal, there are fillers that can be used on the coarse surfaces. They’re latex or oil-based. They are worked into the surface with either a stiff brush designed for this work or a heavy roller.
Yes, you’ll employ a giant amount of filler and only get about 200 square feet per gallon. However , the advantage to using filler is it smooths the surface meaning you’ll use less primer and less paint. Sometimes you may see somebody trying to use drywall compound in place of block filler. This is not a good practice. Employing a product for anything that it was not reserved for can cost you more than using the right product.
The one thing you can count on is they will fail. Leaving you nothing but the same problem you started with plus a massive mess to clean up. If you are feeling confident in your capability in using a spray to apply the filler or paint, that is’s great too. Just be sure to cover any surrounding surfaces not being painted and remember even if you employ a sprayer the material will still have to be gone over with a roller to be sure the material is well worked into the surface.
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Posted in Painting · November 17th, 2009 · Comments (0)