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yes BARNS not ARMS. Need some opinions. Time to paint a couple of sizeable barns on property and while not British they do have the responsibility of housing my British Babes....Its' a Paint question....Have always scraped and resprayed with oil based barn paint bout ever 5 years. Nice clean glossy, mildew resisant, Does not have lacticity so tends to start crackin and peeling 2-3 years. Also a pain to thin paint and clean the equipment....thinners or gasoline required.

Word has it exterior latex paint has come a long way....very flexible supposedly reducing the chip and flake timeing and can be thinned and cleaned with water...but clean up needs to happen quickly since the latex dries so quickly. Also no rain surprises it can't handle as the oil would repel....Latex is supposedly cheaper than oil paint as well.....

WE are putting it on the original very tight tongue in groove siding without primer. Oil seems to have had no ahesion problems....any insights or thoughts... I'm thinking of making the latex switch this spring....
 
I am kind of in that field. Use a Very good Acrylic primer and fallow that up with a good water (not latex) based paint. The better the primer the longer it will last. Tint the primer to match the paint. If you do that the paint is not as important as the primer.
If you have the time and the space prime and first coat it before you install it. I do that on my siding. I then wait 1 year and second coat it. That way any caulking settles and the wood is done moving.
 
How 'bout using latex stain instead of paint?

No scraping needed after staining. No peeling etc. My "mini-barn" has been under two coats of stain for about 18 years. No problems.

Tom
 
nutmeg, good idea! i used that on my house 5 years ago on exterior vertical cedar boards and its held up very well, my son and his buds. contracted me the contractor! brushed it in/on, i can recommend this product, a point of interest, id gotten prices of $8000.00 to 12000.00 to cover our 3700 sq. foot house the boys three of them got about $3400.00 for labor plus lunch.
 
BIBBER said:
Nice clean glossy, mildew resisant, Does not have lacticity so tends to start crackin and peeling 2-3 years.
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For lacticity, use milk-based paint.
 
I got tired of painting, I did my house up with steel siding. and never looked back! Next on my adjenda is a steel roof. After that some asphalt over top of my cracked cement driveway. Then re landscape my yard to something that is either NO or very low maintenance, preferably with something that doesn`t require watering at all! Maby more cement and asphalt :lol:
 
AweMan said:
I got tired of painting, I did my house up with steel siding. and never looked back! Next on my adjenda is a steel roof. After that some asphalt over top of my cracked cement driveway. Then re landscape my yard to something that is either NO or very low maintenance, preferably with something that doesn`t require watering at all! Maby more cement and asphalt :lol:
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aweman, thats the ticket! "Sicilian" grass! :thumbsup:
 
The Maintenance Repainting Manual (a master specification for professionals) refers to this application as a REX6.2 (for Dimension Lumber)

Of the acceptable products listed for this material, Waterborne solid color stain finish is the one I would recommend. A latex primer is recommended. Latex primer shows a better resistance to blistering than alkyd and oil primers.

The following primers are recommended: MPI 5(alkyd) or 6(latex). The final coat(s) recommendation is MPI 16 (water borne).

MPI designations include acceptable manufacturers and products. Your paint supply store should be able to tell you which of their products match which MPI designations. If they can't tell you, find another supplier. There are 30 different products listed for MPI 16, so they should have at least a few of them.

Email me if you want to and I can fax you the appropriate MPI pages.

Good Luck

daverichards100"at"gmail.com
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] For lacticity, use milk-based paint.[/QUOTE]

:lol:well it is in fact a 60 year-old milk barn!!!
 
Dave Richards said:
quote=AweMan] aweman, thats the ticket! "Sicilian" grass! :thumbsup:
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We use this at school athletic fields:

https://www.fieldturf.com/superbowl/downloads/FTGrass_info.jpg [/quote]

I knew a doctor who did that to his lawn once. I'm serious! It wasn't a big lawn, but he actually had his lawn stripped, laid down Astro Turf and then to top it off, planted plastic flowers in the flower beds. It was the talk of the town for quite a while. It was that way for about ten years until he sold the house. Don't know how he kept the color from fading.
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