Paint can beautify grooved shingles.
You should paint grooved shingles to help preserve and beautify your home. As unpainted grooved shingles age, the natural wood finish becomes gray and dull. A fresh coat of paint will not only improve the home's looks, but it will also prolong the life of the shingles. Rent a paint sprayer at your local home-improvement store and use it to apply the paint. The paint sprayer helps push the paint into the many grooves of the grooved-shingle siding.
Instructions
1. Scrape and wire-brush the grooved shingles to remove all loose, flaking and peeling paint. Use a putty knife to scrape. Sand the rough edges of the adhered paint remaining on the shingles using 120-grit sandpaper. Sand until smooth. Dust the shingles with a dust brush.
2. Mask off all surfaces surrounding the grooved shingles with painter's plastic and masking tape. This includes the ground, light fixtures, doors, windows, eaves, soffits and rain gutters. Cover with the plastic, and then hold the plastic in place with the masking tape.
3. Lay down a piece of painter's plastic near the area you will spray, and set the paint sprayer on top of it. The paint sprayer comes from the rental store with the spray hose, spray gun and spray tip fully assembled. An extension power cord also comes with the rental.
4. Slide a one-inch nap roller cover over a nine -inch roller frame, and then screw an extension pole into the handle of the roller frame.
5. Submerge the suction tube of a paint sprayer into a can or bucket of primer paint. Place the drain hose in a waste bucket. Turn the "prime/spray" switch to "prime." Turn the pressure control knob to its lowest setting. Plug the paint sprayer into a 120-volt electrical outlet. Flip the switch to the "on" position. Listen and watch the cleaning agent come out of the drain hose. Flip the switch to "off" as soon as you see primer paint come out of the drain hose into the waste bucket.
6. Turn the "prime/spray" switch to "spray." Point the tip of the spray gun into the waste bucket and pull the trigger. Flip the switch to the "on" position. Listen and watch as the cleaning agent inside the sprayer and spray hose pumps out of the spray gun into the waste bucket. Release the trigger as soon as you see primer paint come out of the tip of the spray gun. The sprayer is now loaded with primer paint.
7. Hold the spray gun about 18 inches away from the grooved shingle siding and spray on the primer. Spray from one side to the other and from the top of the shingles to the bottom. Keep the spray gun moving at an even pace. Turn the pressure control knob up until the paint is atomized. If the paint is squirting out, the pressure is too low,, and if the paint is coming out like a dust storm then the pressure is too high. Don't fret the pressure too much, because you're going to back roll the paint anyway.
8. Spray a six-foot wide section at a time and then back-roll over the wet primer paint with the paint roller. Roll up and down the shingles while applying even pressure to squish the primer paint into the grooves between the shingles. You may have to apply more primer if there isn't enough paint in an area to squish it into the grooves. Repeat this spray-and-roll process until you coat the shingles evenly with primer. Wait 24 hours for the primer coat to dry. Cover the bucket of primer with a plastic bag and leave the suction tube of the paint sprayer submerged. Submerge the spray gun into a bucket of water. Turn the switch to the "off" position.
9. Lift the suction tube out of the primer paint and quickly submerge it into a can or bucket of finish paint. Stick the drain hose into the primer paint bucket and flip the "prime/spray" switch to the "prime" position. Turn the switch to the " on" position. Watch and listen until you see finish paint come out of the drain tube. Flip the "prime/spray" switch to "spray." Grab the spray gun out of the bucket of water and point it into the primer paint bucket. Squeeze the trigger until you see finish paint coming out. The sprayer is ready to spray the finish paint. Repeat the same spraying process as you did for the primer paint. Spray and then back roll until you finish painting the shingles.
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