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Residential Exterior Painting > Older Homes > Narrow Beveled Lap Siding > Example 1

Example 1 - 1999 Restoration of 1926 Construction.

This home exhibits features which contribute to the durability of older homes: sheltering overhanging eaves and entries, double sliding sash windows with thick and well pitched sills, and dense straight grained fir and cedar lumber.

(1) 1999 Close examination illustrates the futility of spot removal of peeling and blistering paint:. Underlying coatings continue to separate, particularly at the margins of where paint has been spot stripped.
(2) Upper south wall
South exposures typically exhibit the severest deterioration.

(3)1999 Completion

 




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2006
Aside from fading, which does not degrade the paint’s protective properties, little has changed.