Paint for Roof Eaves

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Hello! My name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter, and today I represent expertvillage.com. Now we're going to talk a little bit about choosing paint. This is very important. When you're painting your exterior eaves, there are really only a couple of paints you want to look for. Both are enamels, one is oil base and one is an acrylic latex. Now there are a couple of differences here. Oil paints have been phased out a little bit at a time over the last 10 of 15 years. When I first started painting 25-30 years ago, only oil paints were used on exterior eaves. So most any time that you're painting an exterior eave, you're going to find if it's really really old, it was probably painted oil, especially if it's over 30 years ago. However, if it's been painted within the last 10 or 15 years, more than likely they used an acrylic latex. The thing that's really key about these 2 different kinds of paint is they used 2 completely different kinds of brushes. Don't be fooled by advertising marks or whatever is written on the brush. There are really only 2 kinds of brushes that you need to think about. Oil based paints are phasing out, but they can be very effective. If you are going to use an oil, you have to use a specific brush. This is a different kind of painting that we won't be going into today, but I want to make you aware that you can paint your eaves in an oil based paint. Just be sure you use a china bristled brush. That means that it's made from bore's hair. These brushes are very very different from what you see normally with an acrylic latex or a latex brush. Instead of nylon, they're made out of animal hair. You can see here that this is a china bristle brush. This is primarily used for varnishes. If you see these kind of brushes, don't put those in your latex paints. It will destroy them You'll get one out of them and then you might as well throw it away because you can never clean it up. They also do not clean up with water. They have to clean up with mineral spirits, which is a whole other thing that we're going over today; cleaning up with water. Now whenever you're using latex or an acrylic latex exterior paint, you're going to go ahead and use a nylon polyester blend paint brush. What we're going to use today is the most common paint, the acrylic latex semi-gloss enamel. We use semi-gloss because we want a little bit of a sheen on it, but we don't want it so bouncy or bright that's really going to dance too much. We don't want it real glossy. Just enough to make it stand out. Use a good nylon polyester blend brush with a good sharp edge on it for your finish coating. I've got a couple of those here today. The main thing to remember when you're choosing your paint is what kind of paint was on there previously. If you have a latex paint on here, you can go ahead and come back over that with an oil pretty much successfully. Oil will cover most anything, but when you put a latex on top of an oil you run into problems. If you do need to switch it out and you want to change your oil base eaves over to an acrylic latex, be sure you sand that real good and put a good solid primer on there that will actually take the paint. Otherwise, that's going to peel right off. These are a few of the basic tips that you want to keep in mind when you're choosing your paints.

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