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Prepare Blistered Shakes with Primer

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

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  • Ladder
  • Paint brush
  • Triple Thick Primer

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shakes looking true. A lot of times the shakes, for some reason, they blister really bad. And they do blister in the seams really bad. prior to doing any uh painting of a flat paint, I'll go up there and I use triple thick primer and I'll um prime all the blistering and it's typically once again I take a brush and it's in those slats. It's very common that that there's blisters in there. You want to fill those blisters in. You want to glue those things together before you paint them. You don't want to do any anything like that after, you know, the the painting process. So, it's it's pretty typical. I'd go up there and you'll see, you know, triple thick primer all over those slats. I don't know why for some reason those blister, you know, more than say like the siding. It could be like on those gable ends, the gables get a lot hotter cuz it's in the attict and and it's not, you know, insulated like it is on the the side walls. But triple thick primer is a super high resin primer that will glue all that blistering together. Then I'll spray it. Another tip, when I

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