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Use Logical Starts and Stops

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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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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 starts and stops, logical starts and stops on that side. We got a slider. We got trim boards. We got a door door frame. Then you've got inside corners. And eventually on some of the runs, you know, you just can walk back and forth where you're um everything's single story down here. When it's single story, it makes it so much easier because you can walk everything. Sophets, you don't have to…

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