Assess Siding Damage and Select Primer

[Music] So we're working on priming the house today. And this is... we see this a lot here, and this looks really bad. This is composite siding. I like to say it's glorified cardboard. It's not really wood. It looks like wood, but it's just made of ground wood fibers, glue, just some kind of pressed paper on top of it. And when it gets wet, it swells up, starts to crumble, starts to break down, deteriorates. We wash it with water. The original paint is 20 years old, and this has a lot of heat and water damage. And we're going to prime it. The client can't afford to remove this whole thing, but we have a really good solution for this, and we're using a Rust-Oleum product. And this is triple-thick, and it's a super high resin primer here, and it really just glues all this back together. So I don't want to prime these things with just an oil-based primer or just a typical all-purpose oil or all-purpose water because this is just going to soak in, and it's not really going to glue the fibers back together. You