Painting Steel House Siding

Depends on the weather but three or four or five hours is not unusual.

Painting steel house siding.

When ready pour the primer into the paint container on the sprayer or pour the primer into the paint tray. As with all exterior painting projects proper surface preparation is the key to restoring your metal siding. Begin by thoroughly cleaning your siding of all loose dirt chalk and other contaminants. But i would use the oil based rust oleum primer which by the way takes forever to dry.

Cleaning of the surface can be done by hand washing with warm soapy water or with the use of a high pressure washer 2500 psi minimum. Do this as soon as any spots start to show the steel underneath or do it a little sooner if you are trying to sell your house. The first sign that this is beginning to happen is a loss of the glossy look that new siding has. When this happens the metal is exposed to the elements and will start to eventually rust.

Since any of this is clearly bad for your metal siding it is vital that you re paint your metal siding. Then apply the primer to the metal siding in even strokes. This will help clean away all the dirt that accumulates on the steel siding. Step 1 clean the steel siding.

Wash the steel siding with trisodium phosphate tsp and use a pressure washer to rinse thoroughly. Aim the sprayer nozzle directly at the panels eight inches from the siding surface. This is followed by fading and thinning of the color. And then i would use the rust oleum top coat.

The first step includes cleaning. That is how you can get the paint to adhere to steel siding. It also helps to peel away the previous paint on the steel siding leaving it neat and clean. Paint the steel siding panels using the sprayer.