Exterior House Painting Ongoing

[Pablo]

Prep started Saturday 5/30/2026. My painter is VERY thorough. I've never hired a guy like this. He has two helpers, man and a woman. They are fixing things I never noticed or thought about fixing!

THIS => We found some window trim rot - wife's office upstairs window. Will be checking the others but so far, so good. The water was getting in where the 51" vertical piece meets the 48" horizontal (butt). I'm guessing there was no or missing caulk and water just soaked in the butt to inner edge joint.

Pulled the bad trim - two pieces The method and wood are different from any other house I've owned. The trim is 2x4 and the siding butts against it. The wrap and seal underneath are fine thank goodness. The 2x4 is factory rough on the single outside, so just a hair thinner than the nominal 2x4. I have nothing like that in my wood rack.

So I fabbed my own. I made the wood rough with my 4" belt sander 36 grit, knives and some rasps. Not bad, decent match and second floor no problem. Painter deep primed the pieces (they were dry so the primer really soaked in). The area dried in the sun yesterday (hot 84°F)

 

[Sequoiasoon]

 

[Pablo]

 

[JeffKeryk]

Get 'er done!

 

[Pablo]

Faked rough texture

 

[AZjeff]

Looks like a good fix. If you have to do it again try a wire wheel on a drill, works pretty well to get that same look.

 

[Pablo]

Looks like a good fix. If you have to do it again try a wire wheel on a drill, works pretty well to get that same look.

Didn't think of that! This went fast though. I have like 10 36 grit belts that haven't used. hahaa bought for rough slab material removal.........got the fibers up but not rough enough. So I scratched with some blades.......too artificial, so then I got a couple rasps out of the file drawer. Bore down and dragged straightish....worked!

 

[slo town]

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It doesn't appear that the cuts on the original pieces were primed. Make sure the new pieces are primed.

Scott

 

[Pablo]

It doesn't appear that the cuts on the original pieces were primed. Make sure the new pieces are primed.

Scott

They are primed - it's the picture artifact, and yes 100% primed new trim

I was just up there. I was pretty surprised the 2014 construction they actually sealed the window flashing perfectly. The weakness of this whole method is sealing the trim to the window frame, because if water gets in, it will stay wet, no where for the water to drain.

I will make sure it is sealed well. Then move.

 

[Cujet]

For my concrete/stucco FL house, I discovered my favorite way to paint it via experimentation. A 6 inch wide, 3/4 inch thick microfiber roller. Now before you say that's absurd, there is no way something so small like that saves time or does a better job, think about the rough stucco surface. Sprayers load up the surface and it ends up needing more paint than necessary to get good coverage. Plus sprayers require much masking. No masking is required when using a small roller. Just touch up the window edges with a fine brush.

My neighbor sprayed his house and light blue overspray ended up on his shingles due to wind, yikes. I painted my house in 2 days and another day and a half for the trim. He took 4 and made a mess.

This is a few years after I painted it. The roof is being replaced now with a standing seam metal roof. The walls remain bright white. I will of course touch it up after the roof is replaced and it goes on the market. Should look stunning.

 

[Pablo]

For my concrete/stucco FL house, I discovered my favorite way to paint it via experimentation. A 6 inch wide, 3/4 inch thick microfiber roller. Now before you say that's absurd, there is no way something so small like that saves time or does a better job, think about the rough stucco surface. Sprayers load up the surface and it ends up needing more paint than necessary to get good coverage. Plus sprayers require much masking. No masking is required when using a small roller. Just touch up the window edges with a fine brush.

My neighbor sprayed his house and light blue overspray ended up on his shingles due to wind, yikes. I painted my house in 2 days and another day and a half for the trim. He took 4 and made a mess.

This is a few years after I painted it. The roof is being replaced now with a standing seam metal roof. The walls remain bright white. I will of course touch it up after the roof is replaced and it goes on the market. Should look stunning.
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That's it. I'm moving!

 

[BHopkins]

Didn't think of that! This went fast though. I have like 10 36 grit belts that haven't used. hahaa bought for rough slab material removal.........got the fibers up but not rough enough. So I scratched with some blades.......too artificial, so then I got a couple rasps out of the file drawer. Bore down and dragged straightish....worked!

They turned out looking good, in my humble opinion.

 

[The Critic]

For the amount of prep they're doing I would seriously consider upgrading to something better than Super Paint. I can't imagine Emerald adding more than $1k to your job. Super Paint is used for the house flipper special.

 

[Pablo]

For the amount of prep they're doing I would seriously consider upgrading to something better than Super Paint. I can't imagine Emerald adding more than $1k to your job. Super Paint is used for the house flipper special.

Super Paint is not trashy as you make it seem. Please. 100%+ adequate for non-thirsty cement fiber siding. The previous worse paint, darker color is just fine after 16 -17 years. For wood I would use Emerald for better coverage perhaps.

Emerald for the trim and doors though.

 

[slo town]

I will make sure it is sealed well. Then move.

Move? That's a nice home! When you move at this stage of your life there is no going back. Choose very carefully!

Scott

 

[demarpaint]

For my concrete/stucco FL house, I discovered my favorite way to paint it via experimentation. A 6 inch wide, 3/4 inch thick microfiber roller. Now before you say that's absurd, there is no way something so small like that saves time or does a better job, think about the rough stucco surface. Sprayers load up the surface and it ends up needing more paint than necessary to get good coverage. Plus sprayers require much masking. No masking is required when using a small roller. Just touch up the window edges with a fine brush.

My neighbor sprayed his house and light blue overspray ended up on his shingles due to wind, yikes. I painted my house in 2 days and another day and a half for the trim. He took 4 and made a mess.

This is a few years after I painted it. The roof is being replaced now with a standing seam metal roof. The walls remain bright white. I will of course touch it up after the roof is replaced and it goes on the market. Should look stunning.
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Those rollers work well. Masking is a chore, and over spray can be a problem for sure. We did very little residential spray work, too much of a PITA. What a lot of painters don't realize with their liability policy is the verbiage is often worded "per occurrence." So when it comes to spray painting, their deductible, and over spray claims can become confusing, probably by design. Lets say a painter is spraying outside and hits a dozen cars with over spray and they put in claims to remove the over spray from all twelve cars. His deductible is times twelve, since each car blitzed with paint is an occurrence. That can add up fast, real fast, and that's just one example.

I knew a guy who sprayed the interior of a multi-million dollar house on the north shore of L.I. He brought us in as a subcontractor to paint trim. He was going to spray the ceilings, then cut in and brush roll the walls, in a partially furnished home. I said no way would I spray the ceilings, he had a stupid comment so I simply shut up and worked. About two days later the customer informed him her baby grand piano and other furniture in the living room had over spray on it. No one worked in that room the doorways were sealed off in plastic. However he didn't cover any furniture in there, what he didn't realize was the central AC was on sucked up paint and deposited it all over the house, the baby grand happened to be in the line of fire. A costly blunder.......

 

[Pablo]

Move? That's a nice home! When you move at this stage of your life there is no going back. Choose very carefully!

Scott

Was kidding

 

[Zee09]

Move? That's a nice home! When you move at this stage of your life there is no going back. Choose very carefully!

Scott

With rich people like you and Pabby it's a nothing burger.... the rest of us low rents are the ones who suffer

 

[slo town]

Was kidding

Good, but you've talked about it before.

Scott

 

[slo town]

With rich people like you and Pabby it's a nothing burger.... the rest of us low rents are the ones who suffer

Yeah, my four car fleet with a combined 567,000 miles is a dead give away.

Scott