Best Paint For Exterior Fascia Boards

 

Exterior fascia boards deserve the very best paint, listing most important reasons below. Suggesting best paints, not only for fascia, but works great for gutters, downspouts, and corbels.

With several paints available today, really need to pick correct type, made for all types of external fascias. Paint manufacture's lab testing today, there is a paint specifically designed for all types of exposed exterior fascia boards.

Correct fascia paint will endure most weather conditions these boards face. Knowing fascias are at the highest portions of a home. Don't know about you, but only want to climb a ladder one time.

I'd much rather painting fascia boards with the best paint once, and forget it. Possessing a high quality resistance, high hide, mildew resistant paint coating, keeping you off that ladder as much time as possible.

What Type Of Exterior Paint Do I Need, Painting Fascias?

Choosing an exterior paint is half the battle, but need one recommended specifically for fascias. One having a protective coating, looking as good many years later, as it did the day you painted them. Using BEHR™ Premium, Marquee®, Benjamin Moore® Aura™, or Sherwin-Williams™ Emerald® is your best choice. All being least fade resistant, keeping it's elasticity, tensile strength, also elongation.

Using a premium exterior paint for your highest portions, will not only ensure they are professionally protected, but keep you or anyone else having to paint at the highest areas anytime soon.

Reasons using best exterior paint for fascia trim surfaces is really multifaceted.

• Highest painted portions
• Typically gutters are attached
• Most exposure
• Holds Soffits in place

Not only being the highest painted areas of a home, but fascia boards are noted for having gutters attached. Metal gutters are less likely to fail, lasting 25 years or more.

So ensuring paint protection for fascia surfaces makes the most sense. Never having to remove your gutters, just to replace rotten or deteriorated fascias.

Fascia trim boards have the most weather exposure of any other portion of your home. Not only being at the top, but is part of the overhang, protecting siding down below. Fascia boards not only have gutters attached to them in many cases, but holds all types of soffits in place.

Fascia boards are a key element with most homes exterior sheathing, and is the reason putting best paint you can afford up there.

How To Paint High Fascia Boards

Just about every exterior we've painted, includes fascia painting. Reason being, it's the highest portion of an exterior, at roof line. Just underneath, where gutters are attached.

After caulking joints, where fascia boards come together, applying best paint designed for exterior fascia surfaces is your perfect move. Making sure fascias are properly sealed & protected.

Many do it yourself-ers, who take it upon themselves to paint their own exteriors, are not near as comfortable 26' high on a ladder. Calling those who do, a local painting company, painters, and/or contractor.

If your one of those, not as comfortable higher up on a ladder, but choose to complete your exterior anyway, gives even more reason to do it right the first time, applying the very best paint for exterior fascia boards you can.

Fascia picture above, Sherwin-Williams™ Emerald® with a satin finish in Charcoal Black was brushed & rolled. Not spraying because of too much masking around corbels.

So, if getting up high upon a ladder is not your cup of tea, and/or don't have it in your schedule painting fascias like this example, I can certainly understand. You can always contact a local painting contractor in your area, as this is a painter's expertise.

Well, you are correct specifying exterior paint, but need one painting fascia & corbels, weatherproofing many years. Sealing fascia joints, after caulking them, this paint does the trick. Best exterior paint also made for fascias are typically those having a satin paint sheen. Just as most exteriors are painted with satin finishes today, satin finishes repel water much better than flat paint finishes do.

That same paint can be applied to wood, Masonite™, James Hardy™, or aluminum, as long as other proper paint preparations have been made. Even Redwood with factory groove, exactly made as fascia material, this exact same paint can be applied.

Will caution you however, all bare wood must be primed. Many fascia boards come pre-primed from the lumber mills, especially Masonite™ & James Hardy™ boards. Putting additional primer on these, certainly can't hurt, as you will see below.

Fascia Paint

• Designed for gutters, fascias, corbels, drip edges
• Keeping fascia at it's highest quality, being exposed
• Withstanding most outside elements

Generally, fascia paint can be brushed, rolled, or sprayed. If fascia width is at least 4 inches, a roller can be used. If bottom underneath gutter is smaller than 4 inches, you'd be best served, using a 4 inch brush.

100% Acrylic Waterborne Exterior Latex Paint Can Be Applied On

• Factory cut fascia
• Masonite™ fascia
• James Hardy™
• Aluminum gutters
• Gutters & Downspouts
• Roof drip edge

Drum-roll please. Today, the best type of paint for fascias, is the exact same paint for the rest of your exterior. A 100% Acrylic waterborne exterior latex, coming in a variety of warranties, comparing several major paint manufactures, listing below.

Best Lifetime Exterior Paint Designed For Fascias

BEHR™

 

Used BEHR™ Marquee® twice on two different occasions, picking up at Home Depot™, watching it being shook up in paint shaker. Within an hour or so after paint being shook up, a thick heavy paint clog at bottom of 5 gallon bucket was apparent. Clogged up airless wire filter, causing a real headache with a load of paint solids left in bucket.

Realizing all paint should be on the home's exterior, not some contents left in bucket, discarding, have not used Marquee® anymore. Yes, my paint representative was notified, comping me additional product, but did not feel most paint solids were distributed on exterior.

Developed for discriminating painters who want the very best exterior paint for their home, BEHR MARQUEE™ Exterior Paint & Primer is Behr's most advanced paint & primer, delivering exceptional dirt resistance and advanced fade protection. This innovative paint was developed to provide early rain resistance, so it has the ability to repel rain showers as early as 60 minutes after application.

“BEHR MARQUEE Exterior Paint & Primer was engineered with one simple goal in mind - to keep your home looking great long after you paint, even under the most severe weather conditions,” said Scott Richards, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Behr Process Corporation. “We harnessed the most advanced technology to offer Behr’s best exterior paint ever.”

The innovative technology delivers a tough, non-stick surface that helps resist dirt build up along with advanced UV protection and exceptional gloss protection for longer lasting, more lustrous color. The result of these two exceptional features is a paint color that stays looking great, long after the surface has been painted.

As a topcoat, BEHR MARQUEE paint’s 100 percent acrylic, less than 50 VOC formula, provides excellent hide and delivers a durable, mildew resistant finish. With its primer qualities, the product offers excellent adhesion to exterior surfaces along with the ability to block exterior stains.

 

Benjamin Moore™

 

• Proprietary Color Lock^® technology for richer colors and superior fade resistance

• High build formula provides for for extreme hide and coverage for fewer coats

• Outstanding durability against even the harshest weather conditions

• Lifetime Limited Warranty

• Low-temperature application to extend the painting season

• Superior adhesion

• Fast drying and quick re-coat times

• Mildew resistant

• Self-priming in most situations

• Engineered with Gennex^® Color Technology

• View the sell sheet for more information

With Aura® limited lifetime paint warranty, this is better than no lifetime warranty at all. While some other exterior paints warrant paint failures to say 25 years, this paint has primers built into formulation, ensuring adhesion is properly served. Again, no warranty for paint fade, being first thing to notice as it ages.

Therefore, it is possible for your HOA to suggest repainting a faded out home's exterior, even though paint is not cracking, chipping, or peeling away. This is most common reason requesting a new exterior paint job, because of fade, also limited lifetime paint warranties.

PPG™

 

Product Details

TIMELESS^® Exterior Paint + Primer is formulated with our newest innovations and technology providing complete one coat* hide, coverage and durability. With PPG TIMELESS^® UV-Protect Technology, you get one coat* coverage in 1,000 colors and the best resistance to extreme weather.** The tough finish provides exceptional resistance to chipping, flaking and cracking and provides a mold, mildew and algae resistant coating.

Features:

• Complete One Coat Hide & Coverage*

• Exceptional Resistance to Chipping, Flaking & Cracking

• Excellent Fade Resistance

Only time we've used Timeless®, experience with paint itself was great. Very good coverage, laying out extremely smooth, using a satin sheen, with choice of colors. Reason we don't use more PPG™ is just not near as convenient, having only a limited number of paint stores in Denver.

Know PPG™ is world's largest paint manufacture, including Glidden®, also Sikken's® brands.

Valspar™

 

• FlexShield™ 365 Technology - year-round resistance to cracking and peeling

• High-hiding paint + primer

• Maximum weather protection

• Maximum resistance against mold, mildew and algae on the finish

• Excellent fade resistance

• Excellent hiding

• Flexible finish won't crack or peel

• Low-temp application

• 100% acrylic latex

• Lifetime warranty

Sherwin-Williams™

 

Sherwin-Williams Emerald® paint and primer in one with advanced stain blocking technology delivers best-in-class overall performance. To ensure a beautiful, smooth finish and stunning color for years to come, use our finest paint ever. Emerald prevents stains from penetrating, offers maximum resistance to water streaking and spotting, features truly remarkable hide and covers dark colors. With exceptional coverage and washability, it’s perfect for any paint job. Now Available: Emerald Interior flat finish with excellent washability. Emerald is available in four sheens, including a technologically advanced flat finish that offers the same washability, durability and burnish resistance as the matte or glossier sheens. The flat finish hides minor drywall imperfections while providing a washable, rich look. With Emerald Interior Flat, there is no need to sacrifice performance for appearance. Matte and Satin finishes are now available in a high hiding accent base, formulated to boost hiding power and deliver truer colors in fewer coats. *This product contains agents which inhibit the growth of mold and mildew on the surface of this paint film.

The Real Reason Best Paints Mentioned For Fascia Boards

Now for the most important reason applying the very best paints listed above,  for fascia boards;

• Remember noting fascias are at the highest point on your exterior? On the outer edge of roof line?
• Combining that question with the rule, "All bare wood must be primed?" Best paints only require a a couple good brush strokes, not a half dozen.
• Job safety above the ground, giving as much comfort as possible

Best Paints Worth Every Penny

Using a paint & primer built into one paint, will lessen your time, highest on a ladder, at least 50%, if not more! If painting exterior home yourself, doing things smartest way possible, saving you both time, money, also labor.

I know using best paints available saves our time, not having to put on multiple coats, also saving time priming brand new wood. Incorporating primer into paint formulation is one of the smartest things paint manufactures have done.

Much safety must be given painting up on a high reach ladder. Painting exterior fascias is the upper most painted surface a home has. So feeling comfortable being that high, one of those comforts is using a premium quality paint during same time. Same one that will last a lifetime.

Reason premium paints cost more, is just that. Having high grade primer within the product base, which bonds much better. Example of this working with all types of exterior paints, is when you get some on your hand, later washing off. A paint w/o primer washes off much easier, than those having high bonding primer lifetime paint. With that on your hands, you'll be twice as long cleaning paint off both of your hands.

Same goes for what this paint & primer is covering fascia boards also.

And if that isn't enough, knowing these paints are less fade resistant, keeping it's elasticity even longer. More on that can be found at What Are Best Exterior Paints.

In Closing

Now you are made aware, which best paints for all types of fascia boards, highest on the every home. No worries ever using an inferior exterior paint, while you're highest on a ladder. Hope you've enjoyed learning what best paint for exterior fascia boards, and if so, please comment, like, share, or ping below.