Painting Momma's House

PAINTING MOTHERS HOUSE
TRANSFORMING THIS 40 YEAR OLD HOUSE.
By Ken Rader Interiors
Painters in Fayetteville Arkansas and serving all of Northwest Arkansas
This fall we are painting my mothers house.  We are also video taping the complete process and will post it on YouTube.
Until then I will share some photos with you to show you the progress.
We have been working on the house for 4 days.  First was the scraping of the house followed by caulking and priming.
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This house was painted about 15 years ago with 8 year paint.  So, it is in pretty bad shape.  It required a lot of scraping and caulking.  You can see from the pictures that most of the paint scraped off down to the wood.
This time around we are priming and sealing they siding.  You will notice that the primer is different colors, sea foam and purple.  This is the result of several tinted primers being combined.  This saves on the expense and it introduces an element of surprise and fun.  The other 2 sides of the house and the 3 car garage will be different colors of primer as well.
The color of the paint is "Carrage House"  Kind of a mossy green.  The Trim will be "Linen" and the front door will be "Red".
The siding on 2 sides have now been painted and the trim will be painted tomorrow.  We will also continue with the scraping and caulking.  We will work on the front of the house tomorrow.
The video will show the complete process as well show you all of the tools that are being used.  We will show you how to mask off the windows and fill in some big holes that the birds have made.
The paint that we are using is Behr paint and primer combination which is a real pleasure to use.  This should be the last paint job that this house will need.
Stay tuned and follow the progress to the finish.
Today is Thursday and for most it is a day off of work.  NOT FOR KEN RADER INTERIORS!  Today we continued on with the exterior house painting of my mamma's house.  Today was a big day and we are very proud of what we accomplished.
We scraped, caulked, filled some damaged places on the siding and then primed and painted the front of the house.
Two coats of primer and 2 coats of paint.
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Next will be the east side of the house.  Scraping, caulking, priming and painting.  Something extra that we will be doing is using a block filler/primer on the cement blocks so that they can be painted the same as the house.  The block filler/primer will make sure that the paint sticks and will not crack or fail.
Once the house is completed we will move on to the 3 car garage.
As of today we have used 15 gal. of primer and 8 gal. of paint.  As you can note, using primer cuts down on the amount of paint needed for the finish spraying.  This saves money and will help the paint job last considerably longer.
When you paint the exterior of your house you are doing more than changing colors.  You are putting on a weather proof coat that will protect the wood from further damage from sun, rain, wind or ice and severe temperatures.
We will continue to keep you up to date with the project.
AS ALWAYS,”HAPPY PAINTING AND DECORATING”

Ken Rader Interiors L.L.C. --  Painting Northwest Arkansas Beautiful, “ One house at a time”.

Serving Northwest Arkansas and the greater Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bella Vista area.
 Professional Painters since 1987.

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