How To Paint Siding In A Mobile

Before you begin painting the walls in your manufactured home you will need to decide if you want to leave the battens up or remove them.

How to paint siding in a mobile.

Mar 9 2014 learn how to paint metal siding on a mobile home from 3 different home owners using spray paint brushes and sprayers. Apply your chosen paint with a roller or even a paint sprayer saving brushwork for corners and edges. Taking them down and filling in the seams is a cumbersome job but the finished job will look great much more like the standard walls in stick built homes. Now that you have a clean canvas look for any missing screw s rust damage and a powdery layer.

Check the label to be sure it s recommended for metal siding. Expect to pay the premium for good paint. To lighten a paint color add white paint as needed until the desired color is reached. To darken a paint color add black paint to darker colors and gray paint to lighter colors.

Work from the top down to eliminate dripping paint from ruining your hard work. Also invest in a pole to stick your roller on for high up. The key to painting aluminum siding is to get it really clean and to use 100 percent acrylic latex paint. Clean you must clean the white powdery stuff that old metal siding gets oxidation is the scientific term.

If vertical paint up to down. Learn from my lesson and just. Evenly coat the entire surface taking care not to apply too much paint in any one section. Find your groove using the paint can trigger.

Pour thoroughly mixed paint into a bucket. For best results with your paint you ll want to thoroughly wash the aluminum siding on. Get a thinner nap for smoother surfaces and a thicker nap for rougher ones. If your paint is dripping then you have too much.

If your siding is horizontal paint left to right. Paint in long even strokes making sure not to overdo it. Buy all the paint at once you need to buy all the paint you will need at one time. It will take a very long time to paint the whole exterior with a brush but the choice is yours.