Things To Know For A Brick Painting Project
Homeowners often update the appearance of their homes with a coat of fresh paint. However if you’re considering painting the ‘bricks’ on your home then there are a couple of things you must consider before you break out the spray guns and throw a party!
Painting coarse faced brick, block, or stone isn’t like painting anything else you’ll ever have to color. The big difference is volume of labor needed and the quantity of material. These sorts of surfaces will use twice as much material as any other. Being that these surfaces are so porous, they act like a sponge.
The labor comes in with the amount of effort needed to work the material into these surfaces. It is slow, hot work. The materials used as far as paint are not any different from any other paint except there are a few special products that do about the same job as regular paint. They may be a little heavier for better hiding. Like wood and metal, there are fillers that may be used on the rough surfaces. They are latex or oil-based. They are worked into the surface with either a stiff brush designed for this work or a heavy roller.
Yes, you’ll use a large quantity of filler and only get about 2 hundred square feet per gallon. However , the advantage to using filler is it smooths the surface which means you will use less primer and less paint. Often you may see somebody attempting to use drywall compound in the place of block filler. This is not a good practice. Using a product for anything that it was not intended for can cost more than using the right product.
The one thing you can count on is that they will fail. Leaving you nothing but the same problem you started with plus a massive mess to scrub up. If you are feeling confident in your ability in employing a spray to apply the filler or paint, that’s's great too. Just be sure to cover any surrounding surfaces not being painted and remember even if you employ a sprayer the material will still have to be gone over with a roller to be sure the material is well worked into the surface.