Good exterior house paint

[Toy4x4]

I'd like some opinions, please, on what brand of paint is decent for the exterior of a house. Dunn Edwards seems to be popping up more often than others such as Behr, Glidden, and Sherman Williams and I just heard of another named Frazee (sp?).
Thanks.

 

[andrews]

Go to epinions and check out what the average joe has to say about it. Sometimes I've found it highly valuable to check the site out before I purchase things.

 

[joee12]

ICI/Dulux has served me well for the last 7 years that it has been on my house, Joe

 

[LateArrivalforLSU]

Can't go wrong with Sherwin Williams, ICI/Dulux, or Dunn Edwards IMO. They all make good paint.

 

[Slick 55]

Sherwin Williams Duration is the leader of the pack. It is expensive but requires only 1 coat and is self priming.

 

[Amkeer]

If you have Porter Paint its about the best for long lasting exterior paints. Next would be Benjamin Moore then Sherwin Williams.

 

[labman]

In 85 I put vinyl siding on my house. At the same time I covered all the trim with aluminum. Haven't regretted it a bit. Have hardly touch anything on the outside of the house since, and it still looks great.

 

[74 Laguna]

Another vote for Benjamin Moore, we have had it on a rental house since '97 and it still looks like new.

 

[JohnnyO]

A professional painter I know swears by Sherwin-Williams for exterior and Benjamin Moore for interior. I last painted my house in 1998 with Valspar (I like to buy local) and it still looks perfectly fine.

 

[tom slick]

you can't go wrong with sherwin williams. Behr gets rated well in magazines.
you spelled frazee correctly.

 

[Gary Allan]

I don't necessarily subscribe to one brand ..but for exterior paint I only use alkyd paint. The stuff is bullet proof and goes on real smooth. The only thing that I've found tougher is epoxy. It's got all kinds of warnings on it ..but after I saw how it took a beating in our industrial environment ..I had to use it. Glidden would be my producer of choice for this paint ..but they all do well. The last time I painted the exterior wood (about 10 years ago) ..they were attempting to use a "kinder-gentler" alkyd mix ..so I don't know how this has effected the durability of it.

 

[wulimaster]

Is this for a new house or to go over an existing paint?

Living in the same climate as you, I would say all the American paints are the same. I haven't tried Pratt & Lambert but I can only guess it is a small step up from all the others. The sun really bakes the paint out here and it typically doesn't last very long given this and the fact that most houses are painted light colors which means they are heavy on the calcium which tends to make them chalk off.

Since painting is primarily labor intensive, unless you are doing a rough stucco finish with a sprayer and backrolling with 1/2" naps. Still the masking off takes time as well as surface preparation time. The paint is the least of your costs unless you are doing it yourself.

Having used European paints I can say that there is no comparison. See finepaintsofeurope.com.

Off topic a little.

For anyone else who wants to paint deep colors on the inside of their house you can save yourself a lot of time and money by spending more money on the paint up front because all the american paints will take 4 coats to do a deep red or green and will show chalk scratches if anything should brush agains the walls. The Dutch paints will completely cover in 2 coats and not chalk off and will be washable.

 

[Doug]

As you see, many have different opinions on what is a good paint. With today's technology, any name brand exterior paint is great. You can't go wrong with Behr, Glidden, Dunn-Edwards. If it we me for my house, I'd go with Kwal-Howell's liquid Vinyl... I have heard great things about it. I personally used Glidden on my home, no qwalms about it...

 

[salesrep]

Ben moore. Spend the money on the highest quality paint. ben moore, sherwin, porter. you will pay if you go cheap.

 

[Schmoe]

Got to go with labman on this one. I was looking at exterior painting when we bought our current house in 98. Got talked into vinyl siding a year later and all I can say is AMEN. I am soo glad I did it. House still looks really great and I haven't touched it since.

 

[Jimbo]

Even store brands, like ACE and Sears are good today. Just like motor oil, there is no "trade secret" chemistry. Everyone buys ingredients from a few suppliers.

Just buy the top-of-the-line grade for exterior work. The twelve year old paint on the stucco still looks great. For trim, I agree that alkyd (oil base) is better. Priming is the most important step on old wood trim.

For interiors, I spray the inexpensive contractor grade ACE whenever a tenant moves out for a clean new look each time.

 

[Bio-T]

Because of limited places to shop, I did my house this past fall and used American Traditions by Valspar. Top of the line at Lowe's. Seems to be doing the job.