Prep School

Painting your house is the one job that most people do-it-yourselfers are willing, even eager, to undertake. It’s little more than opening the can and licking on the paint- right?

Well, not exactly. You can take a cavalier attitude, but you’ll get a better, longer lasting result, if you take the job a bit more seriously.

Most people will agree that their home is their biggest and most important asset. So when caring for it, and making it more beautiful, it shouldn’t be too hard to muster extra patience. So you’d think.
The hardest part, and the biggest down fall of most DIY’s is wanting to get to it. The paint that is. No one like the scary ‘prepare the work surface’ phase. But you can’t avoid it. Ninety percent of the success of any paint is prep work.

Here is the drill for exterior painting….

• Have a clean, solid, dry surface to bond to.
• Hose down all surfaces to remove dirt.A high-power water cleaning device is advisable for extra dirty areas. It will also remove peeling paint.
• Peeling paint should be removed with a wire brush or paint scraper. Don’t forget sashes, lintels and door frames.
• Patches of mildew should be washed well with blench, rinsed and allowed to dry, then sealed with Acri-Seal or Max-Prime.
• Rust stains must be cleaned. Now you’re ready to paint.

Bermuda is unique in so many ways. In residential construction there is little, if any, structural steel. The sand used in stone construction, however, contains salts, and often brackish water is used to make cement. While this doesn’t effect the construction; it can affect the paint. Paints manufactures abroad have to be formulated to work on the broadest number of surfaces, and for use in many types of climates. At Bermuda Paint, we formulate all of our unique climate and conditions in mind. It is paint for Bermuda.