"Tom" wrote in message
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As summer is coming and hopefully some nice weather too, i have decided
its
time to paint the outside of the house as its looking a bit merky. Since
we
have only lived here for 2 years i have never had to face the joy of this
job and was wondering what the best was to do it was? The whole house is
pebble dashed (stone chipping sizes are approx 10-15mm) and is currently
painted in an off white creamy colour, we would like to paint it white.
This afternoon i thought i would make a start so used a large masonry
paint
brush with quite stiff bristles and some Sandtex exterior masonry paint, i
took me about one hour to cover 1m square and it still hasn't covered very
well!

Has anyone got any tips on doing this? Would it be possible to use some
sort of spray gun/compressor to cut down on time, i assume i would have to
thin the paint down? Is there some magic brush out there for this type of
work? Any idea of cost would also be welcomed if you have recently
carried
out this task.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Tom.


My experience with painting pebble dash with a stiff stipple brush is
similar.
I reckon 1.5 square meteres an hour tops, if you want to get good coverage.
I never graduated to painting the entire house, but at the time I did
remember
looking into ways to speed things up, and ISTR that an airless sprayer with
a needle diameter of 0.019" - 0.023" was mentioned as the way to go. Not
sure if you get lots of spray drifting away and coating the neighbours' cars
or
suchlike but you can try research in that direction.

Andy.