" This house was built in 1921. And the original Stucco surfaces the sidewalls are very good condition except for just a few spots that needed repairs. But the woodwork was a bit of a different story eighty year old -- New England winters we've had to do a fair amount of repairs and replacements. Some of it most of it really using western red cedar which is a very good wood to choose for this kind of war. And then of course who replaced the gutters up on the gambrel roof. One thing that's important in New England winters is to keep water and ice from forming on the eaves of the roof. There were some areas of the house however that had. Pretty serious damage. The porch columns for example after we discovered insect damage free decided that the best way to strengthen and preserve these columns was to. Fill them up with concrete so mason Kevin Latham wound up. Doing all three of them just to be safe. Once that was done there was plenty of patching and repair to do as well as some new Stucco to add where we removed the back door and added the new kitchen slider and the small window. Kevin starts with wire lath over felt paper over plywood that he adds a brown coat and lets that cure. Next comes the finish coat which is this much fun to watch as it is to apply you just have to have good game. We've all these different surfaces to deal with. Painting the house was not going to be a simple jobs so we called on certapro painters to help us out."

" like a lot of homes here in New England this house says is eighty years old and -- middle aged Hollywood starlet different parts of the house are different ages its own held up really well overtime and -- so that you -- little bit of work. So on this particular home we've got some old Stucco which isn't really good shape we've got some new Stucco. Which in this case needs to be primed and then we're going to -- it was a couple of coats. This windows an area where we've got a couple of different materials. This is of course our old natural woods -- going around that we've replaced the frame here with azek material which is a man made. We product which sounds like wood does not actually need to be painted although we're going to paint it to make it match the rest of the trim. This azek material is relatively new by the way. And it's especially effective in areas where there's a lot of moisture a lot of recurrent water issues where rot is really going to be a problem. We harder place so once they want to ever after replace this again. And this should solve the trick here. So we're going to be -- put paint right onto VA's act but the natural wood is actually -- need to be primed and then painted with two coats to match everything else. Now here's another area know where we see a lot of texture from old layers of old paint you can see where the water issue caused that peeling in sheets. You can also seal on an alligator going on that's all the checking marks going on and move in the paint. -- what that is caused by is in the olden days which is to say 4050 years ago when this was probably painted originally there are oil based paints are also lead based paints. And they don't have enough flexibility for New England winter and summer where the temperature variance is are huge you know from ten would degrees below to ninety degrees. And so that paint cracks like that. And you know when you're thinking about your house what's a realistic expectation what is going to look like at the end of the process and that -- hearing is really baked in the cake now. So we're gonna do is scrape down everything that's loose chipping and peeling. It was a -- sand down the edges a little senate. And -- we're gonna prime over it and go over it -- you're still gonna see that existing texture coming through the pain -- the old layers of paint are doing their job which is that they're here to the old wood on the house. So you know what is done everything's gonna look uniform in color and there won't be any chipping and peeling going on but there still be a lot of texture involved in it. Now offer above what we've got going on here is. Before these gutters and downspouts were installed. You have the lip of this roof coming down and slamming into all these shingles and it's really just like Chinese water torture on those shingles all the time. And that causing all the paint to flake off. So in fact we've had to replace all of those shingles and we're gonna hit them with a solid color stain looks a lot like paint. But it won't chip and peel it penetrates into woods and that's seen as a self priming product as well. So we aren't going to have to go over with a special primer. And again you're going to see a difference in texture between -- old shingles which are a little bit more. Horizontal. And or vertical rather and the new ones we shall be smoother finish that's part of that Hollywood starlet or different parts that are different ages that's something you're just gonna have to expect with a home this age."

" So far -- what are some tips to think about when you are painting towards the end of the season. And it is getting a little bit cold -- the -- think about temperatures at night as long as the temperatures are above 35 degrees overnight and really ideally for 48 hours you're okay. So this fifteen degrees during the day and dropping down 45 at night you're okay that's an interesting point -- not just about the temperatures when you're applying the paint. But also during that curing cycle those 48 hours after you paint that's exactly right any of the technology in paints today we no longer into the season and start a little bit earlier. That's especially important here New England but in other parts of the country one of the biggest culprits to a good paint job as the humidity right. That's right and in that case you know in New England was throwing you'll only an issue on occasion but we're going to Florida climate or something like that. High humidity may mean that you can't paint certain times of the year either he's just the opposite -- exactly well thank you it's a beautiful job and thank you."