Understand Shake Types and Finishes

right. Today I'm going to give you a few tips when it comes to painting shakes. So I have some, you know, shakes right here. Whenever I'm painting shakes, I want them to look like they were actually wood shakes and and have, you know, that flavor, that uniqueness to them. One of the things I always do with my shakes is I paint them flat. So, I don't want them to look like the siding. I typically paint the siding uh satin because I want it to be durable. I want it to be, you know, cleanable, washable. There's uh wood shakes. They're cedar. So, you'll see cedar shakes. There's um concrete shakes, which are hardy plank shakes. And then there's these shakes right here, which are composite shakes. So, they look like wood shakes, but they're made out of the same material as this sighting is made out of. It's just some ground up fibers glued together, uh, pressed and got a like a paper over the top of it and it looks like wood, but it's not. If the shakes are, uh, concrete sided, same thing. Concrete sighting, hardy plank, we paint it. It comes out pre prime. I'm going to paint it once again flat because I want it to look true. You do not want to paint wood shakes. You want to add a wood stain to them. If you paint wood shakes, they're more likely going to peel. A stain is going to absorb into the wood and it's self priming. You're not going to have to prime it. So, that's a proper way to do wood shakes and your stains are flat. And so, the stains um will keep the the shakes looking true. A lot of times the