On Friday, we pressure washed the areas we will be painting, which led to a lot of paint chips to pick up. After allowing the house to dry over the week end, we came back today (Monday), and started doing the prep on the cement-panels on the front of this tudor style home. Often these panels are made of pressed board paper like what is found on homes in Williamsville, and parts of East Amherst. However on this home in Kenmore, the panels are actually a sand stone like cement. Up close, the aggregate of the cement looks like pool sand, thats why it has a yellow look to it. Interesting..
Glad we opted for the Sherwin Williams Loxon primer instead of our normal go-to ExtremeBlock oil, while the oil primer is an amazing product, the Loxon is specifically formulated for this exact application. After doing a bit of scraping, we primed what we could reach then, it began to rain. So we will be back tomorrow.
I have never given this much thought, but typically sandstone should not be painted. But these panels appear to imitate the look of sandstone. I wonder if back when the house was built 70+ years ago, if those panels had no paint on them to start with? I’ll have to look into that. But now that the panels have been painted a bunch of times, the only practical way to remove all the paint would be sandblasting which would be astronomically expensive. So we are priming the bare spots and then painting the panels and the wood trim.
Day 2:
We hit a relatively big snag, and everyone learned something important today. Pictures of magazine pictures do not always translate into useable colors for your house. Printed materials use ink, not tint. Plus, magazines use glossy paper which can further alter the exact color. So after 4 hours, we have 1 of the two colors we need.
We also primed the other little peaks, as well as the curved wood storm door that is popular on home in Kenmore
Like many of the homes in Snyder, particularly the Smallwood area, the trim on this home was originally oil varnish. And then, someone along the way decided to paint it. And now its pealing off. So we scrape off whats loose, hand sand it (can’t use power sanders or it destroys the profile), then prime with a high quality exterior oil primer. We like Sherwin Williams ExtremeBlock, seems to work well, and we haven’t had a problem with it – knock on wood.
I also spoke to the homeowner about the tudor style panels. They really do look like they were created using pool sand:
I also found out the house is 100 years old, not 70 like I thought initially. After speaking with the homeowner, we are in agreement, that back when the house was built (1920’s), these panels were not actually painted, but instead raw. Someone along the way decided to paint them white. Now granted that yellow doesn’t quite math the traditional tudor style homes in WNY, but its interesting that originally it was yellow, not white.
More to come!
