Long before the first brush full of paint is applied to the exterior of your home a great deal of prep work has to be done. The majority of preparing the surface for painting is done by hand, it is estimated by professionals that do house painting in Chicago that for every hour that it will take to actually paint, another hour or even more, will be used in preparing the surfaces.
Preparing a house for painting; step by step:
The first task is to scrape the old paint off of every square inch of the exterior of the house; this includes all the difficult to get at surfaces such as the soffits, fascia boards and trim. There is really no effective way to automate this process, the only way to do it right is to do it by hand. Professional painters do however have all the right tools which of course include scaffolding. Scaffolding makes the job a great deal safer and helps the painters complete this phase as quickly as possible.
Once as much of the old paint as possible has been scraped off the surfaces must be sanded. Any remaining paint that could not be scrapped off must be feathered to ensure a perfect look when the job is completed.
During the sanding process the painters will invariably run across nails that have risen from the surface. The nails must be countersunk and the holes must be filled and sanded.
There will be times when existing paint simply refuses to surrender to scraping and sanding. In this event the painters will use a heat gun or chemical peels. The final step in preparation for house painting in Chicago is to power wash the entire surface.
It is easy to see that preparing the exterior of a house is a long, tedious job that demands perfection; a job best left to the pros.
House painting in Chicago is a job that is time consuming and requires a considerable amount of skill. To ensure that you get the best possible results you are invited to call Fortune Restoration.
