Painting Vinyl Cladding Forum
Not only can you make it look like new.
Painting vinyl cladding forum. Not only can you make it look like new. The upper storey cladding has some blisters and also peeling revealing a silvery base aluminium or galvanized steel. In fact painting vinyl actually requires less prep work than painting other types of siding such as brick wood or hardboard. Painting your old vinyl siding makes good sense both economically and aesthetically.
Surface preparation and the use of a top quality acrylic paint are the keys to painting vinyl cladding. I suggest you buy emulsabond and add it to the paint. Use hunter l value of greater than 40 use vinyl to vinyl paint after deglossing with a green teflon pad and wiping with acetone and use a high quality paint for painting over pvc. I have researched most vinyl cladding boards available and found armourboard and excellboard to be very realistic timber look light in weight absolutely maitinance free and i was offered a fifty year guarantee not warrantee on excellboard and decided to use it.
Plus if your. I think that with a light sand that the upper storey ie. If you paint straight over this the paint actually sticks to powder and not vinyl. You find that vinyl cladding after a few years goes a bit powdery.
It is therefore recommended that to keep it looking as good as new all you need to do is give it a paint every 5 10 years. You can change the colour and give it a whole new look. We will also outline the considerations specific to painting vinyl that. Painting your old vinyl siding makes good sense both economically and aesthetically.
At this stage i am looking at the cladding side of things. Sometimes people opt for installing a vinyl cladding instead of house painting thinking it may be cheaper or save on future house painting costs but be aware that often cladding will need a coat of paint eventually and is not a way of never painting the exterior. And while it is true that timber weatherboards do need to be painted regularly to protect them and keep them looking their best you may have noticed that vinyl cladding also fades over time. If you have ever painted a wall then you are already familiar with the mechanics of painting and much of the following will serve as a refresher.
Pvc or vinyl cladding will fade over time and need a coat of paint. Looking at painting v cladding my weatherboard 50 s house. The guy pushing weathertex is entitled to his opinion but is so far off the mark it is the weathertex that looks fake. Every house i painted or quoted that had vinyl was powdery.
Possible aluminium vinyl clad walls should be able to be painted with a quality acrylic paint such as taubmans endure however should i consider an undercoat. I have formplex excellboard and vpi armour quotes at the moment. Can anybody tell me their views on the best type of vinyl cladding on the market at the moment. I want to paint our new auction purchased andersen vinyl clad windows to match our other house windows.
Surface preparation and the use of a top quality acrylic paint are the keys to painting vinyl cladding.