In article , "TURTLE"
wrote:
Now the outside walls are cypress and the paint we used on it 25 years ago is
all but gone. Now it did stay on there good for 15 years or so before it
started
pealing off. i talk to the fellow at the hardware store where we get the
paint
and he said the cypress will suck up the paint and if you keep rolling
the paint
on it. it will just take all the paint you have till you paint it one
time and
let it dry and then it will stop sucking up the paint when you paint it
again.
if you don't paint one coat and let it dry first. the paint your
painting with
will never get a good coat because of it will keep taking paint till you
stop up
the pores of the wood and then it will stop taking the paint. We have
not bought
the paint yet and we might look at the oil stain paint for because of the
cypress being a paint sucker upper. i remember painting a placve in the front
area about 6 or 8 times tring to get a red coat to cover it. it just kept
sucking it up.
Is the outside cupress "silvered" and crackly-looking? If so, it has
probably lost all the natural oil. If you can, try sanding it a bit and
see if the color changes. (That may be more work than you want to do. Here
in New Orleans they sand the whole house with circular sanders first.)
Then prime it with an oil primer. The paint store guy was right. You may
have to give it a few coats of exterior oil primer, let it get nice and
dry. After the first coat, you might want to caulk all the exterior cracks
as well. Of course, before you start, you may want to bang all the nails
(or put in new nails as needed) to get all the boards tight. If some of
the cypress boards are in real bad shape, replace them. You probably have
a local hardwood dealer that will be selling it around 50 cents a foot or
less; maybe 25 cents a foot for the #2 stuff. If you do that pressure
washing you mentioned in your first coat, you will need to wait for a few
warm days to dry it out. If there's still moisture in the back of the wood
(but with the surface looking dry) that will bite you and the paint will
peel.
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Jedd Haas - Artist
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