PAINTING EXTERIOR

About the Book

These pages are intended for homeowners who want to learn how to get to know the technical condition of their house and who want to be able to supervise their painter’s job. The author explains how a paint job on the outside of a house is done and at the same time points out the technical details. It focuses on the description of important areas that need to be taken care of. Its purpose is to make it easy for homeowners to place an order and check after the job is done. A repeatedly well painted house is in better technical shape, its value is much higher and its life longer by decades. The introduction briefly describes the profession of a painter. Further chapters deal with issues like how often to paint, what to inspect and how, pressure washing, the roof, chimney, gutters, stucco, siding, windows, doors and porch. Each chapter contains real life pictures that repeat with almost every house and thus become practically a rule. All this is concluded with a work order layout. The entire work describes ways of inspection and removing flaws based on experience of painting about 500 houses. This book is a comprehensible and handy reference manual to all homeowners who care about their houses.

About the Author

I have been working as an exterior and interior painter almost everyday since 1998. I have worked with many people and for many painting companies so I have had a chance to see and compare different kinds of approaches to the job. I decided to write this book about painting house exteriors mainly because in nearly all cases I encountered homeowners who did not know what to ask for from a painter and what defects they should want to have repaired. My book explains the basic facts about painting home exteriors so that each and every homeowner can get to know everything about the technical condition of their house and be in control of the painter’s job.