We recently purchased a new construction home and we are looking to
paint it. However, we have heard conflicting theories on how long you
should wait before you paint it. I would appreciate any feedback!

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We recently purchased a new construction home and we are looking to
paint it. However, we have heard conflicting theories on how long you
should wait before you paint it. I would appreciate any feedback!

Interior or exterior? What kind of surface is it? If it is outside,
you want to paint it right away, the day it goes up. The idea
is to seal the wood and keep water from penetrating the outside.
For interior plaster, it is OK to paint as soon as it is dry,
although some folks like to wait a few months for any cracks
to appear. That way, you can fix up the cracks before you paint.

-john-

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John A. Weeks III wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:

We recently purchased a new construction home and we are looking to
paint it. However, we have heard conflicting theories on how long you
should wait before you paint it. I would appreciate any feedback!

Interior or exterior? What kind of surface is it? If it is outside,
you want to paint it right away, the day it goes up. The idea
is to seal the wood and keep water from penetrating the outside.
For interior plaster, it is OK to paint as soon as it is dry,
although some folks like to wait a few months for any cracks
to appear. That way, you can fix up the cracks before you paint.

-john-


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John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708
Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com
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We are looking to paint the interior of our house. We heard that we
should not paint for a year - others have told us that it is ok to
paint when we move in. Any advice would be appreciated!

We would like to paint the interior of the house; however, we have
heard not to paint for one year. Others have told us that we can paint
immediately. Any advice/experience would be greatly appreciated!

wrote:
We recently purchased a new construction home and we are looking to
paint it. However, we have heard conflicting theories on how long you
should wait before you paint it. I would appreciate any feedback!

wrote:
John A. Weeks III wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:

We recently purchased a new construction home and we are looking to
paint it. However, we have heard conflicting theories on how long you
should wait before you paint it. I would appreciate any feedback!

Interior or exterior? What kind of surface is it? If it is outside,
you want to paint it right away, the day it goes up. The idea
is to seal the wood and keep water from penetrating the outside.
For interior plaster, it is OK to paint as soon as it is dry,
although some folks like to wait a few months for any cracks
to appear. That way, you can fix up the cracks before you paint.

-john-


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John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708
Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com
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We are looking to paint the interior of our house. We heard that we
should not paint for a year - others have told us that it is ok to
paint when we move in. Any advice would be appreciated!


Builders paint houses before they sell them, don't they? And many
times it's to specific colors of the customer, not some std off white.

The only issue I can think of is some folks may have in mind that there
might be some tendency for more cracking due to shrinkage, settling,
etc to occur during the first year. If you wait a year, you'd be able
to fix those prior to painting. However, practically speaking, I don't
think this is a big issue. If you really want to change the color, I'd
go ahead and do it now.

) writes:
We recently purchased a new construction home and we are looking to
paint it. However, we have heard conflicting theories on how long you
should wait before you paint it. I would appreciate any feedback!

Ask your builder, check your documents and find out for sure.

I don't work in new home sales, but there may be a clause that says that
you will void part of your warranty if you paint before a year is up.

Houses take years to settle. If there's no warranty issue, go ahead and
paint and you can always touch it up down the road.

Natalie Munro wrote:
) writes:
We recently purchased a new construction home and we are looking to
paint it. However, we have heard conflicting theories on how long you
should wait before you paint it. I would appreciate any feedback!

Ask your builder, check your documents and find out for sure.

I don't work in new home sales, but there may be a clause that says that
you will void part of your warranty if you paint before a year is up.


What part of the new home warranty would that be? The part that might
cover the builder paint that you want to change anyway?






Houses take years to settle. If there's no warranty issue, go ahead and
paint and you can always touch it up down the road.