Painting Vinyl Siding

This tutorial explains how to paint brand new paint outside vinyl shutters and are not intended or recommended for the type of PVC exterior shutters or repainting old exterior shutters. You need to have the painting of parts of levels of this procedure to work properly.

You must first decide whether the spray or brush painting with a brush. It is recommended to use a spray paint your exterior vinyl shutters, the result will come out more consistently.

Then paint selection. There are three basic choices to consider and the choices you make is very personal to you and the style of your home:

1. Outside matte painting

2. Semi gloss / satin paint

3. High gloss paint

The choice of quality paint for plastic is different from that of the paint you use to paint on wood. Whether you are spraying or brushing, I always advise to use paints relatively inexpensive. I recommend this for two reasons. First, you will not have to address issues of moisture so that the mil thickness of paint is not important. Second, high quality paints are more globular and intended to be used with a roller, which makes the paint too thick for even spraying. Remember that a plastic product is inert and does not absorb or release moisture vapor if protection against the elements is secondary.

The boot is based on the exact type of substrate you will be working with. If the material is a styrene as Brand Mid-America (only the color # 30) or a copolymer of high quality as the shutters Vintage Alcoa or other pre-painted products, and if you use an exterior latex paint flat, you get a good grip without primer.

If you use something other than latex flat, always first to the surface of the exterior vinyl shutters first. The paint supply store has inexpensive primer (primer is very good) and even then it does not have to be of high quality because it is only to provide the grip of your coat of paint.

Follow the instructions and pay attention to the guideline of temperature on the paint can get the best results.

You will need the following to begin:

1. A pair of sawhorses (or two large boxes)

2. A leaf drop (plastic or cloth)

3. An equal number of boxes for the number of external panels shutter you paint (the boxes are for storing freshly painted panels filling out the drying time)

4. The gun or two to paint an inch and a half-inch brush

5. paper towel or clean cloth

6. A respirator if recommended by the paint manufacturer

OK, time to work Picasso.

blinds shutters open is challenging because of the angle of the blades and the resulting difficulty of obtaining complete coverage. If you do not address the space between the bars and you install external shutters at eye level or more after installing your vinyl shutters painted spaces will be visible behind the blade.

If you spray before you actually spray paint on the vinyl component using a test area for a uniform jet and to ensure that the gun works properly. The side of the cardboard boxes drying will work well for this. To paint the shutters, vinyl shutters, was the panel face down and begin spraying holding the gun to forty five d.