Skip to main content

Applying First Coat to Corner Boards and Lower Siding

1:10
4:56
208.6K views

At 1:10 in

How To Painting A House. Tips Painting The Outside Of A House. DIY house painting tips.

What happens here

Chris demonstrates the technique of back-rolling the corner boards and the lower 6-12 inches of the house siding. He explains that these areas receive the most weather damage from water runoff and splashing rain, making an initial hand-applied coat essential for extra protection. He works ahead of the sprayer, about 15 minutes in advance, so his rolled paint is almost dry by the time the sprayer reaches it.

Goal: Provide enhanced protection to high-wear areas of the house exterior.

Tools and materials

  • LaddersReaching higher sections of trim boards
  • Paint BucketHolding paint for the roller
  • Paint Roller Frame and CoverApplying paint
  • Paint RollerApplying paint to corner boards and lower siding

What they say

Hide

enjoy it hey a lot of times out there I'm talking about my tools that I'm using or some of the accessories out there on my videos and you could actually go purchase a lot of those tools and accessories at my Amazon store at my website www. VI Idaho painter.com you go check out my tool store I do get a little bit of a kickback from it it does help making these free videos for you out there and a lot of the times those tools you can actually purchase them a lot cheaper than you can purchase at a local paint store or local hardware store so go visit my Amazon store and help me out and purchase some of my accessories and tools got a quick and simple tip for you and that's prior we got our sprayer going around spraying the body of the house he's going One Direction I move in the other direction we always like to to put a first coat of paint on all of our corner boards and about 6 in to 12 in from the bottom of the house cuz that's where it takes the most weather damage water coming off the house water splashing up from rain and so forth so we like to give that a first good code of paint the I'm going before and ahead of the sprayer about 15 minutes before him he's coming behind it'll actually almost be dry by the time he's hitting it so um just a quick and simple tip given a good extra coat of paint on your corner boards and all your trim boards up as high you can reach

Auto-generated from the video audio.