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Use Logical Start and Stop Points

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3 Pro Tips to Spray Hardie Plank Siding Like a Painting Expert | No Flashing, Lap Marks, or Holidays

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The third tip for painting Hardy Plank siding is to use logical start and stop points. Hardy Plank is so unforgiving that stopping anywhere in the middle of a siding panel and then trying to overlap later will make the overlaps visible. Natural break points for painting include trim boards, window frames, and corners. For example, you can work from a corner board to a trim board, or between two windows. For areas with shakes (shingles), their inconsistent nature means you can shoot in different directions, as the goal is a random, patternless look. For long, uninterrupted expanses of siding without windows or trim, it's extremely important to work quickly, feather your start and stop points, and avoid hard stops. This will prevent heavy spots and visible lines that would otherwise become very noticeable over time (e.g., a year or two later). On single-story sections, it's easier to walk back and forth, reducing the need for specific start/stop points compared to multi-story sections or areas with many architectural features.

Goal: Avoid visible overlaps and imperfections by starting and stopping painting at natural breaks or feathering edges.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Sprayer — Applying paint to the siding efficiently
  • Ladders — Accessing high areas of the siding
  • Paint — Coating the Hardy Plank siding

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shade. The third tip I'm going to give you is painting where there is logical start and stop points. Hardy plank siding. If you stop anywhere in the middle of the siding, go back and then come back and overlap over that. It's really difficult to, you know, um, hide those overlaps. Once again, there's times and places when there's just no way you can, you know, do that and it's unavoidable. The side over there, really unavoidable. There's no way. Even with super long extensions, the weight of the extension makes it just completely impossible or impractical to do. Uh, on new construction, it's really nice cuz you can get a boom. You can rent a boom, drive a boom around here, access everything without a ladder, and you can everything. You'll have you'll have logical start and stops. But a logical start and stop point is you got a trim board between those two windows. You have your planks of siding. You go from cornerboard to trim board. You're going to work your way up. Shakes because the inconsistencies, you got shakes all over. That's really nice because you can just shoot anyway or because you want your shakes to look, you know, random and patternless. And so I typically I'm, you know, shooting different ways, different directions and stuff. So the shakes are pretty nice. You've got short runs cornerboard to trim board on a door. Over here on these high sides, you've got long expanses um where there's no windows anywhere. So, you've got, you know, uh, downbat trim boards, downbat trim boards, and you're just going to have to, you know, start and stop like in the middle someplace. It's going to be extremely important to do that when it's super cool, when it's super shaded, and work super fast and feather those, you know, start and stops. You don't want hard stop. And then you'll continue on and have these big heavy spots in your hardy plank sighting cuz you're actually going to see those and you won't see them as well now as you will see them later on down the road a year from now, two years from now. They'll really start to stand out. But you know that side over there

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