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How to Paint Exterior Shake Siding Like a Pro | Best Paint, Sheen & Spraying Tips

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When applying paint or stain to shakes, the spraying technique is crucial for a uniform and durable finish. Unlike horizontal siding, which is typically sprayed horizontally, shakes should be sprayed vertically. Shakes feature numerous vertical lines and overlapping sections, and spraying vertically helps blend these patterns, making any potential inconsistencies less noticeable. An equally important technique is to spray at an upward angle. The bottom edge of each shake lap is often flat, rough, and porous (approximately 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch thick). If you spray straight on, this porous area will not receive adequate coverage. By angling the spray gun upwards, you ensure that the paint or stain gets underneath each lap of the shake, providing complete coverage and better adhesion. This prevents unpainted strips from showing, especially after weathering. While working on a high ladder might make this challenging, practicing these vertical and upward-angled techniques will significantly improve the final result.

Goal: Achieve complete and even coverage on shakes using proper spraying methods.

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Ladder Little Giant — Reaching all areas of the shakes for thorough spraying
Paint Sprayer Unspecified — Applying paint or stain to the shakes
Paint/Stain — Coating the shakes according to their material type
Spray Gun Unspecified — Directing the paint or stain; typically part of a paint sprayer system

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Then I'll spray it. Another tip, when I spray the um the shakes, now I say when I spray the siding, I go with, you know, the grain of the siding that the the siding runs, you know, horizontally and I spray horizontally. When it comes to the shakes, you don't want to spray horizontally on the spray shakes. You want to spray vertically. You've got all these vertical random lines on there, and if you spray it vertically, you it's less likely that it'll be noticeable when you do that. So, uh, that's a tip that I always like to, you know, tell my guys, spray vertically. And then another thing is the bottom of the shakes are flat. And so, if you spray at it flat, that bottom, you know, like quarter inch,/ inch of each one of those laps of the shake, it's not going to get paint on it. And it is pretty open and it's pretty porous. So, you want to definitely be shooting up at an angle. So when I'm shooting the shakes, I'm I'm spraying at an upward motion. So my gun, it's going to be turned this direction. I'm going to be shooting it up in an angle like this. So I'm getting up underneath each one of those laps of the shakes. Sometimes it's difficult cuz you're on a high ladder and and stuff, but try to practice those techniques. If you do all that stuff, all these tips I've given you, your shakes will look amazing just like those shakes, too. So just some tips and tricks when it comes to painting shakes.

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