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.

"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.

"Tom" wrote in message
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Spouse used a large roller on a breeze block wall, might not be the same on
pebbledash of course but he refused to use a bruch.

The folk behind have pebbledash and they use a roller too.

Mary

Tom wrote:

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

Having recently rendered a new bit of house to match the existing rough
cast stipple pattern render on the rest of it, I set about painting it.
As you say, not easy.

Stiff brush works ok but is slow. Conventional masonry roller is not
really effective without a huge amount of force applied. In the end I
found a 4" radiator style roller was the most effective, you could get
the force behind it to push the paint into the nooks and crannies, and
it was a fair bit quicker than the brush. (also has the bonus of fitting
behind drain pipes etc)


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Cheers,

John.

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Tom wrote:

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

Having recently rendered a new bit of house to match the existing rough
cast stipple pattern render on the rest of it, I set about painting it. As
you say, not easy.

Stiff brush works ok but is slow. Conventional masonry roller is not
really effective without a huge amount of force applied. In the end I
found a 4" radiator style roller was the most effective, you could get the
force behind it to push the paint into the nooks and crannies, and it was
a fair bit quicker than the brush. (also has the bonus of fitting behind
drain pipes etc)


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Cheers,

John.


Thanks for your reply, what do you mean by radiator style roller?

Tom

Tom wrote:

Thanks for your reply, what do you mean by radiator style roller?

Actually I mean mini rollers like:

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...49285&ts=20976

Although technically a "radiator" one is usually long reach like
(radiator rollers being designed to paint behind radiators as the name
suggests):

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...99320&ts=20976


With the house painting its not the long reach you need, but the
narrower and smaller roller head.


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Cheers,

John.

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Thanks John, i get some ordered. Shame i left it so late as my ladders are
arriving from Screwfix this afternoon!

Tom