The best choice of paint to use for cedar wood is urethane acrylic house paint.
Painting exterior cedar siding.
Certain areas are peeling and lifting and the color has faded.
The key to a successful application of paint is surface preparation.
Choose your primer based on what the paint manufacturer recommends to use.
First painting freshly milled cedar requires a paint stain unless a 100 acrylic exterior primer is used first thereby allowing a 100 solid acrylic paint to be used as final finish coats.
Do remove all failing paint off of previously painted cedar siding.
Do not allow peeling paint to remain on the cedar siding before painting.
For many owners painted cedar siding is a particular style.
Remove pollutants and remove failing paint.
It is not all about protection.
Here are the do s and don ts of painting cedar siding.
If you do not intend on priming brand new cedar or redwood for that matter a high quality stain paint should be used as 50 of volume soaks into the wood other 50 is left on top as a dried paint mil.
But over time the elements have taken their toll and the finish is starting to look weathered.
Your freshly painted cedar siding looked so good after it was completed.
Cedar siding painting will only be successful if you have a clean slate.
Exterior grade acrylic latex paint is the most dependable finish in terms of protecting cedar.
Choose the correct type of paint for the cedar.