Choose Vinyl-Safe Paint Colors

chalky siding now when it comes to the colors i'll get back to it and i'm just going to use just hypothetically if your siding is white and you paint it black you're probably going to permanently damage it but what if it's you know some color in between as a general rule of thumb you can typically paint your siding a lighter color if you go darker what happens is the tent the in the paint that makes a dark cloth color actually absorbs more heat and that heat is what causes the siding to warp so you want to look for colors that are lighter and not darker now what was is actually a lot more safe to do is choosing vinyl safe colors so i'm going to talk a little bit about vinyl safe colors and here's a foldout of a benjamin moore fold out and this is a foldout of vinyl safe colors now i'm not sure how many colors there are sherwin-williams also has vinyl safe colors i think they've got a hunt a palette of a hundred vinyl safe colors now vinyl safe colors are colors that the paint manufacturers have developed and added tints to the paints that absorb less heat now you could even choose colors that are darker because they've made these dark colors using colorants that absorb less heat so one of the great things about this is if you've got white vinyl siding you can choose one of these colors off a vinyl safe palette and still paint your house a darker color but it's really highly recommended you stick with vinyl safe colorants or colors when it comes to painting your house now i'm going to leave a link to benjamin moore's vinyl safe colors and sherwin's vinyl safe colors that you can choose from so you are you are limited there's not a ton of options here but there is quite a few from you got reds to blues to grays earth tone greens and tans and yellows and so there are some great colors on this palette benjamin moore's vinyl safe color palette is absolutely amazing so the answer is i i