There is much to be said for exterior painting in Denver Colorado Springs, covering the Colorful State of Colorado. Colorado offers a picturesque setting painting many home’s siding and trim either up in Colorado’s High Country, or down in Denver and Colorado’s Front Range. The Spring, Summer, and Fall months offer premium weather conditions above Denver in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. However down at the Mile High City, Denver and the Front Range offers superb exterior painting year round.

Exterior House Painting Basic Steps

We will go in chronological order with basic steps one needs to take, providing excellent paint protection for a home’s exterior siding and trim. Before getting started, this can be an overwhelming task for the DIY (do-it-yourself-er), so don’t say I didn’t warn you. Exterior painting should be left up to the Professional Paint Contractor if homeowner has no previous home improvement and painting experience. Normally most house painting services companies will charge more

having to go back over fixing what has already been done, if the lines are not straight, and paint coatings are not consistent and uniform. I have seen some loo-loos in my time, mostly resulting from inexperienced homeowners, always leaving the door wide open with the suggestion as to the previous owner or neighborhood school painter on Summer break. Below, are the basic steps one should take, painting the exterior

of a home in Colorado, as there is no deviation to these steps from most Professional Denver painting contractors.

Power Washing:

Before picking up a spray gun or paint brush, one must clean the siding, normally done by power washing. Using a high pressure washer having anywhere from 2000-3300 psi. Great care needs to be given, never touching tip when dispensing high pressure spray. This can inject water into the skin, causing water in the blood, and this can be very serious. So keep hands, arms, and legs away from spray tip when power washing the house. This safety measure also applies to airless spray guns, getting skin too close to spray tip, paint can be injected into skin and bloodstream as well. Now power washing is not intended to peel the old paint off, however if flaking paint is present, a high pressure wash will remove a lot of this old paint. This procedure normally takes approximately 30-45 minutes going around the home, from ground level. You do not need to get up close and using a ladder, as this can harm the wood getting spray too close. Also using a Red Tip for second stories, and a Yellow or Green Tip for closer surfaces. Power washing is meant to clean the dirt and grime off the surfaces, sometimes using a chemical wash additive. Power washing is important, like having a clean canvas to paint on, or a clean exterior siding to repaint.

Now the exterior siding and trim is clean, you should wait 24-36 hours before you do anything else. I know you may want to do something else, but relax and forget it. Wait 24-36, as everything else will adhere and have much stronger adhesion capabilities if you wait, letting surfaces to dry back out.

Scraping:

Now the substrate has dried, it is time to go over all surfaces scraping all wood surfaces where exterior paint has  “Lifted up” but not actually peeling up, commonly referred to as “Blistering”. Old aged paint has a tendency to pull away from the wood surface, especially not having a bonding primer applied first on wood surfaces. This is the first sign, hard to see, paint deterioration, that must be removed before any new paint coating is applied. If old lifting paint is not scraped off, new paint will lift be lifted off with older in a very short period. So trick is getting all old, aged, lifted paint up, cleaning substrate below, using sandpaper and or wire brush. This will insure the surface will accept exterior primer and bond properly.

Haha, you thought that was all for scraping? Not quite. All old caulk that has separated from one substrate or another, normally found in corners of the home’s siding, or at 90 degree angles where trim boards are present, this caulk needs to be removed. Caulking over old separated caulk with new caulk is like putting a band-aid on a broken arm. The reason is caulk tends to follow separation, and as the old caulk continues to pull away, so does the new caulk in record time. Caulking over old separated caulk can look good at first, but worthless as tits on a boar hog, not lasting a flipping year before you see cracks in your caulk. Therefore, take that extra time involved, and scrape all old caulk that has separated, replacing with new.

Caulking:

After all scraping has been completed, caulking all 90 degree angle wood joints is next on the list. Caulking around windows and door frames is a must. This seals out moisture, and drafts, making all interior crevices protected from the outside elements. One of a professional house painters tricks when caulking is taking a damp or wet rag and wiping caulk to a smooth uniform finish. This also applies to caulking interior trim surfaces as well.  Wiping off any excess caulk that may have found it’s way on other outside surfaces using same wet rag is best before any outdoor painting begins. Caulking is to exterior painting, as an artisan prepares for the first paint colors to be applied, making sure the canvas is all prepared. A good or bad caulking job can make or break the final outcome of an exterior paint job, so pay close attention to the smallest of details when caulking.

A good caulk we like using is either Sherwin-Williams 950A Pro Select or Comex 45 year, both a flexible acrylic caulking compound, specifically formulated with silicone with the latest research and development of waterborne sealants. These silicone improvements offer added paint-ability, durability and adhesion in all applications. These caulks are also treated with a mildew-cide having a negative effect to mildew growth. Caulks are generally easy to work with, having very little solvent odor, and cleans easily with water before it has time to set up and dry. Caulk dry times increase the cooler the outside temperature is, and shorter times the warmer the ambient temperature is, normally 45 minutes on a 60 degree day. Noting, you should never attempt to caulk during high humidity, rain, or freezing temperatures. Caulking during these times can and will impede the lasting qualities these exterior caulks will have. Not wearing dentures yet, I don’t think freezing my Fix-O-Dent before using, would last the normal time-frame either.

Priming:

This is where the meat and potatoes for quality painting preparation. Normally most exteriors do not need a complete exterior priming job, although we have required some to meet our workmanship warranties. A good rule of thumb we use is, if more than 25% of the exterior needs priming because of bare wood, oil spots coming through siding, the whole exterior shall receive bonding primer. When using Life-Time-Warranty paints, priming is not required, as the Duration, and Legacy paints from Sherwin-Williams and Kwal Howell has primer built right in. Either way, priming the whole exterior or using Life-Time-Warranty paints is not cheap by no means. Exterior trim is normally the first area to require painting, as is from dimensional raw bare wood, normally never primed before. Priming bottom of siding edges is very important as well, sealing those opened edges before the exterior finish coats are applied. Most of the time spot priming is needed where paint has been scraped off. Loading up liberally, priming over caulk as well, helps seal caulk for paint-ablity and durability, helping keep the caulk’s elasticity.

Masking:

Masking off areas not to receive paint is very important, cleaning off paint is very time consuming, eating away the time it take to complete the exterior painting job. I have seen novice painters mask windows using 12″ paper, leaving big squares of opened exposed glass and window frames open. This exterior tip not to do, is very easy falling victim, opening up, exposing large areas of clean-up. It is always a company requirement with Eco Paint, masking off windows 100%. Masking off roofing where exterior siding meets the roof usually on upper stories is also a requirement. Also masking off concrete, walkways, flagstone, patios, decks, and vegetation growing close to the home are other areas to mask off, protecting from paint splatters and over-spray, goes without saying. Automobiles not able to be moved is also a concern to mask over, normally using large plastic drop film.

Exterior Painting:

Knowing this, when painting exterior home’s siding, we like upgrading our customers to a Life-Time-Warranty paint for the trim. Never scrimping on exterior paint quality, we use Sherwin-Williams, Kwal Paint, or Benjamin Moore. Although there are other very high quality paints available such as Valspar, Glidden, Behr, and Devoe, all have their Low, Mid, and High Quality grades, similar to stopping at the gas pump. Remembering driving up to the filling station, meeting the “Man Who Wears the Star”, wiping off your windshield before asking what grade of gasoline you would like” Texaco and Eco Paint have very similar characteristics.

Once all steps of preparation is finished, it’s time to break out the paint brushes, paint rollers, and spray guns. Normally the main body is sprayed, using a “Cross-Hatch” spray pattern, laying a consistent, uniform and even paint coating, working from one side of the home to the other. On warm days, once you get to the end of the final side, you can go around once again, applying the second coat. Latex, Acrylic paints dry by touch within a matter of minutes the warmer the temperature is, which in this case, a 50-60 degree F., day Latex paint should dry within 30-45 minutes.

After two coats have been applied to the main portion or body we call it, it’s time to remove the masking tape, paper and plastic covering any trim. Brushing and or rolling all trim, gutters, facia, flashing, doors is next on the list. This area of exterior painting is by far the most time consuming, and thus exterior trim painting costs are more than actually spraying the body.  I could talk your ears off painting the exterior, but will leave some left for another day and another article. I must conclude, if this seems more than you wish tackling yourself, by all means contact a professional exterior painting service and painting contractor today!

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built right into formulas, every paint requires proper primer on substrate, under lament, or bare surface.

Good rule of thumb, “Primers bond better to substrates than quality house paints do, and quality coatings bond to primers much better than substrates themselves. When your doing siding repairs, most new siding has a factory primer, making repairs and replacements less costly, not having to prime. Many other primers are described below for drywall to siding, exterior painting and metals, naming general types, and not suggesting name brands.

Aluminum, Galvanized Steel

Clean surface, especially new rolled flashing and Galvanized surfaces, removing the oils that are applied in the factories, during production. Best cleaner is 50% vinegar and 50% water using a quick wipe down method.  Also remove any crayon wax markings, and oxide powder applied from factory. Apply an Acrylic Latex rust-inhibitor primer, allowing to dry, and top coat with a quality 100% Acrylic Exterior finish coat.

Drywall

Drywall mud and textures are a very porous material when dried. Priming before and after textures provides two different benefits. Priming before texture, allows texture to be applied more evenly, and allows texture to bond better to primer than drywall itself, especially when doing a knock-down texture, scraping points off with broad knives. Priming after texture allows paint finish coats to go on more evenly, without soaking into texture, not having dull and shinny spots. Drywall primers are generally flat PVA primers which dry rather quickly, and have spread rates of 250-300 square foot per gallon.

Ferrous Metal

Clean surface, typically found with steel pipe handrails, outside stair stringers, and I beams.  Removing as much rust as possible, a power tool works well for large areas, and steel wire brush for smaller ones. Remove dust from scraping, and apply 2 coats of rust-inhibitor primer, allowing to dry before applying top coats.

Masonry

These surfaces are typically very porous and require a block filler that will seal cracks and crevices before finish coats. Normally these coatings use a spread rate of 100-150 square foot per gallon, and a spray and back-roll method is recommended. Finish coats will cover more uniformly and not see any dull spots to shinny ones.

New Wood

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Exterior Priming and Painting in Aurora CO.

A high quality latex or oil based wood primer. Make sure primer has stain blockers when covering stains, open grains, and sappy woods. Using Alkyd oil based primers, latex finish coats can be applied over, but not the other way around. Typically spray, brush or roll methods of application. If siding has no factory primer, best applying thin coat for adhesion properties.  If new Cedar Siding is used, no need for primer when using Solid Body Stains, as you want some of the stain to soak into the wood, and not lay directly on top of surface.

Repaint

Need to check what is previously used, as to above (New Wood). Scrape all loose mills currently peeling up, and those that have air pockets lying underneath, ready to peel up. Sand and feather edges, so when painted, mill thickness differences will not be seen.  Priming entire surfaces are not required just because paint has become dried and chalky. Only when bare substrates are exposed, but if so many bare substrates on a particular wall or structure, it may be wise to prime entire substrate. Primers will maximize adhesion and uniformity appearance.

Weathered Wood

Best to sand down to new wood grain, allowing bonding primers to adhere and bond to substrates properly. Mostly found on trim, scraping, sanding, and feathering mill thickness edges before applying Alkyd or Latex primers. Also best to purchase top quality primer, which provides better bonding characteristics to substrates.

• If you have had any related priming concerns, we would like hearing from you.
• If this article has been helpful priming different surfaces, we would like hearing from you also.
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Twitter’s most Famous Painters

Looking deep in Twitter’s paint bucket, finding the most active House Painting Accounts listed below. List is not rated in level of importance, grade point, value. Just a great collection of some great Twitter users that I follow and suggest that you do too! If you like my post please sign in with your Twitter or Facebook accounts in the comments section and leave your comment below. I believe Twitter to be a great network of internet-savvy people. I have personally made quite a few great connections already and will be an avid Twitter user for a long time to come. I’d like to recommend a good source to rate an individual twitter account’s value is What’s my Twitter Account Worth, along with Twitter Grade. Level of state’s twitter area ranking can be found at TwitStates.

Having reached some interesting conclusions with House Painters and Twitter, without using either one of these helpful apps above.

• Probably not listing all painting contractors, as many new accounts are made each day on twitter, and I should perform searches more frequently. Placing all found in  Painting Denver’s House Painter’s List, listing around 99 individual Painting Companies.
• Out of List, only 7 follow this list.
• Out of List, approximately 20 reciprocating followings, building friendships in either same towns, or across the nation, right Tom? Tom and I are pretty tight, bouncing things for our web sites, house painting techniques, helping each others SEO. Kelloggs Painting in NY, me in Denver.
• Many twitter accounts are made one day, some of those being painting contractors and house painting, then never tweeting on a regular basis, and following back, so is part of Famous Painters ranking equation.
• Some may be active, but not following, possibly thinking of being competitors, maybe reveling trade house painting secrets, I have not a clue.
• Being here in Denver, making several friends who also are in the same industry, many of us may have never met without being here on twitter, right Larry? JSYK, Larry and All Phase Painting and  I share the same town, and has added great enjoyment to my twitter experience. Thanks again, Friend!
• Then some just may not enjoy twitter, and see no great benefit having this type of social media account.

No Direct Competition:

Yes, I’ve been guilty first starting my twitter account, being reluctant following,  befriending socially with similar businesses in the past. But seeing what twitter is all about, knowing we are all not in direct competition, twitter account brings down all of these barriers. Even living in the same town, not direct competition, as there’s always enough work to go around with a couple-five million households and a few socially inclined Painting Contractors. So, don’t understand the hang-up.

Learning from One Another:

More similar painting companies are spread out across the nation, listed below, so no competition whats so ever, although having very similar business models. Finding good stuff bouncing things off one another. I’ve personally been painting homes for over 30 years, but will be first to say, “I don’t know everything”, learning from others. I’m learning a lot from friends listed below, hopefully giving back the same.

Building SEO:

Having a Twitter account, re-tweeting other comments, is the first time I’ve felt comfortable promoting other painting contractors, building friendships at the same time. Uncovering the video listed at SEOmozblog supports the value mentioning like-minded businesses from time to time, building a combination of in-bound and out-bound links, which in turn gives both article originator and commenter link luv to one’s web site and search engine optimization. Great video to watch~ Think everyone wishes to be listed 1st. on page one, who wouldn’t? The way to get there will take some effort, as the Google’s, Yahoo’s and Bings require today. Giving out relative current information, the strongest will survive in 2010.

Grouping together is not really happening on twitter, as we do on RemodelQA and Real Estate Brokers do on Trulia. This helps search engine optimization, building content. 3 magic words with SEO. Content, Content, & more Content! Your site will quickly start ranking higher in page rank on various search engines, while building in-bound links for every post. Building good SEO is a having a well balance of many various forms of content.

More on Twitter List:

If your listed on a List, Follow that list! You get credit seeing all posts from one’s list, but does not count against your maximum following number, which you will not be thrown into twitter’s sandbox, not able to follow any more. Not mentioning twitter courtesy, someone thinks enough putting you in a list, follow it for goodness gracious.

Conclusion:

Maybe when this is read, our group and similar ones in the same industry will follow, friend up with one another on twitter. Seeing House Painting and Painting Contractors are not following one another as much as they could, what twitter was developed and invented for in the first place. From an SEO standpoint, having twitter account is a very positive thing, seeing rewards now with HubSpot’s  WebSiteGrader now giving credit having twitter account tied with a web site.

• Do you have a Twitter List? List it below! Get visibility and followers.
• What are your thoughts, seeing house painters generally not following one another, or just not following the knucklehead Cal.
• Are you satisfied with your Search Engine ranking? Where you show up when searched.
• Not being a Painting Contractor, being in another industry, does your group follow one another more regularly?

You can see Painting Denver’s House Painters List

Below, a list of  Famous House Painters not afraid to follow others in similar business models~

sdwpainter

EPSPainting

KelloggsPaintCo

AndruszkoPaintN

HandymanFl

Spackletweet

WeLovePainting

RICKETTPAINTING

GilbertsPaintng

EAGLEPAINTINGNJ

thehappypainter

PWATMcKinney

RiverKing_Paint

YarosPainting

PainterSydney

FreshCoatPaint

RaiderPainting

AllbrightPaint

progreengroup

apexnational

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