Filling gouges with wood fillers on older surfaces.
How to paint peeling wood siding.
This is where water seeps into cracks and soaks into the wood causing the paint to peel.
A very good high bonding primer on all bare wood surfaces.
To effectively apply primer use a paint brush and apply in a left to right right to left sweeping motion.
Another key step preparing trim for paint is priming.
Heat from sunlight also drives the moisture into the wood.
Your brush size is dependent upon the size of your siding.
Sanding wood fillers before priming older paint coatings.
If the unfinished wood was exposed more than 3 to 4 weeks lightly sand the surface to remove the thin layer of degraded wood before applying paint.
Do keep in mind that old paint may contain lead and proper precautions should be taken when removing those old fragments of paint.
Sills and other horizontal surfaces peel because water runoff is slow and in the meantime can work its way through any crack in the paint.
Priming all bare wood caulking fillers sealing trim allowing primer to properly dry.
Honestly this stuff is incredible.
However a four to five inch wide brush usually works best.
Step 4 paint your wooden clapboard siding.
Sand the cured filler with a hand sander to make it smooth and level with the surrounding wood.
Just look at the same trim after one coat of the primer and zero scraping or sanding.
Scrape sand and recoat these highly vulnerable areas as soon as peeling paint begins.
2 complete coats of paint needed on wood to last.
Sanding filler caulking edges where trim meets another substrate allowing to dry.
Instead the paint should be scraped off by hand using a paint scraping tool.
With low vocs this water based binding primer is three times thicker than regular primers and locks down and hides peeling weathered surfaces to create a smooth white finish for your top coat.
Sunlight degrades the unfinished wood surface thus it will never hold paint as well as fresh wood.
Cutting digging out rotten wood before painting over old paint.
Once primer has dried trim is ready repainting exterior trim looking brand new.