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House Prep and Exterior Painting

Bob talks with Al Roberta who is painting the Medford house. The house needed a lot of prep work before painting. The home's original wood shingles had been covered for 30 to 40 years by manmade shingles during which time they had gotten pretty baked and oxygen-starved and subsequently brittle. Some of the shingles were replaced but for budget reasons those that could be were saved leaving behind a patchwork of new and old shingles to be painted. Al is using an oil-based primer from Sherwin Williams that will both seal the house giving it a nice hard shell and also act as a stain-blocking agent as the new cedar shingles have a tendency to bleed. Al is applying the primer with either a small 3-inch roller or with a cutting brush. It's not an easy job to paint a house with so many angles. The finish coat is a latex topcoat. It's a Sherwin Williams Duration product that goes on twice as thick as conventional paint. The topcoat is rolled and back-brushed. Weather-permitting the job should take about three week.

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House Prep and Exterior Painting

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" Joining us now is Al Roberta from AFJ painting companies and Al this is not an easy house to talk about -- in his. Like any old New England house that needed a lot of prep work -- Bob what did you guys have to do well again realize there was a layer of siding that was it has been we mold right essentially what happened over time as these the original shingles got pretty. The Dayton and -- and the brittle that's interesting from thirty or forty years of having the manmade siding over the shingles you had a lot of temperature buildup in there that's damaged the wood exactly it couldn't read. In this area we've got a combination some of the old some of the new but anyway what kind of primer is going on this is an oil based primer and -- strong winds and what that's gonna do is two things it's going to basically seal the house up. I get this nice hats shelf. And also an act as a stain blocking agent what it's gonna because. The new cedar shingles have a tendency to bleed on us certain we want to do is seal those up. That's going to happen with the crime so it's an oil based primer that's correct and theory is that applying it either -- this small three inch roller or with the the cutting brush correct. We got it you that he could spread -- conditions we'd rather roll you're better off rolling right. And we -- the pipe staging on that side but still it's it's it's not an easy job to paint a house with this many angles and such and then this section over -- got the finish coat on it right that's correct. Now what what and that is this also oil based finish. Now this is a a latex top coat it's only in duration product and then -- goes on quite thick it's twice as thick as a normal the national paint. And you don't vinegar and you know -- well now was this put on with a roller or is this brushed on this is rolled and back brushed. Rolled and back. -- so how how big job is this how many days how many men well weather permitting as usual here exterior paint I can get in here for a three weeks. That within three weeks equipment. --"

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