Total Home Painting Evaluation

Exterior house paint problems can occur in any environment for any number of reasons, the important part is having these problems diagnosed and fixed before they cause further damage. Are you noticing any of the below warning signs in your home?

Mildew

When moisture doesn’t evaporate, it causes mildew to set, which paint will not adhere to properly. Mildew must be removed properly from the exterior surfaces of your home to ensure that no further damage to your home will occur. Many times people think that they can simply paint over existing mildew, however this is only a temporary fix that will eventually create expensive repairs for you later on. When it is simply painted over, mildew continues to live and spread beneath the paint’s surface, and in time will eventually bleed through.

Warped Siding

Warped siding is a condition caused by the accumulation of moisture followed by baking in the sun. Once warped, these areas cannot be nailed or screwed down to flatten out these manipulated areas, this would just continue to cause further damage. If warping has started to occur, your options are to replace it, or otherwise, have the areas properly prepped and painted with a quality paint.

Chalking Paint

Chalking, to the untrained eye, may appear as fading. However, chalking is actually the result of a deep chemical change. This change is caused by ultraviolet rays, which cause molecules in the top coat of your exterior house paint to transform, resulting in a white film of dust over the wall’s surface. This causes problems because when new paint is applied on top of it, it may not adhere to the surface properly.

Blistering & Bubbling

A blister, or bubble, in your exterior paint means that the paint has lost adhesion in that particular spot. When the paint begins to pull away from earlier coats or from the painted surface, it’s usually caused by heat from the sun interfering with drying times. Preventing blistering and bubbling is done by never applying paint to a hot surface because it will cause the paint to dry before it has adhered to the wall.

Peeling

The leading cause of peeling paint is due to the damaging effects of the sun on the paint’s surface over a prolonged period of time. Peeling is the result of blistering, or bubbling pockets bursting open. These exposed pockets will then become larger, peeling over time. Once the blisters have been exposed, this leaves the areas unprotected against the sun’s rays, moisture, and other outdoor elements that can continue to make the problem worse.

Fading or Bleaching Paint

Fading paint color is dependent on how much exposure your home gets to the sun. Intense heat and ultraviolet rays from the Arizona sun is severe and will begin to cause damage to most any color over time. While we use only top quality paint that guarantees your color to last as long as possible, some paint colors simply fade more quickly than others. Fading, or bleaching, happens slowly. Often times, you might not even notice that the color of your home has changed drastically from the color you chose five years ago. Dark colors are the most likely to fade noticeably, but even bright colors can take a beating from the effects of the Arizona sun. Some of those colors include: reds, blues, greens, and yellows.

Cracking & Staining Stucco

If you have started to notice cracking in your stucco, it must be attended to, or it will continue to worsen over time. Cracking stucco is not normal and should not be ignored. When these cracks are left unattended to, they will only continue to get worse as water enters, forcing them to crack further and leaving stains on your exterior walls as the moisture begins to escape.