Hints and Tips
Here are a few practical tips from over 35 years experience.
Sometimes exterior paintwork does not last as long as it should. The four main reasons for this are:
- Painting over a wet or greasy surface.
- Painting over loose or crumbly surfaces, such as dirt and dust.
- Weather cold enough for frost or around the mid 80s under a blazing sun.
- Leaving it too long before your next decoration. This results in bare wood being exposed to the elements. It dries out the wood so losing its body and shrinking excessively in the cold while expanding in the heat, thereby cracking the paint. Fungus also grows on bare wood so increasing the possibility of rot.
- Repaint the exterior of your house before bare wood is exposed to the elements as it loses its vitality and strength, so making a repaint less effective and likely degrade faster.
- You can lessen the shine of gloss if you add a small amount of undercoat. This will also give the gloss better 'coverability'.
- Always check the recommendations at the back of your packet or filler as some filler is designed to go straight onto bare wood and other over primed wood.
"I just wanted to drop you a line to say that my husband and I are very pleased with the work that Kloss has done for us. All the decorators were tidy, skilled and courteous. It was a pleasure working with you on this project." - D.K.
