How To Prep A Wooden Porch For Painting

Step 2 - Check the Paint.
How to prep a wooden porch for painting. Wash off any sanding dust and dirt using an appropriate cleanser. You would also need to make sure that there are no cracks splits or any sort of repair work that is needs to be done before painting the column. Priming all bare wood caulking fillers sealing trim allowing primer to properly dry.
These will be painted white as soon as I can get to it so I dont want the blue to show through the white paint later. Sanding filler caulking edges where trim meets another substrate allowing to dry. Coat the wood of the floor with a layer of exterior primer.
Clean the porch well with a wet-dry vacuum. According to Leysock it doesnt matter whether you paint side to side or up and downjust as long as your method is uniform. So when the porch and deck began to look bad I only had one choice to make it look nice again.
Exterior primer is the final step toward preparing the wood of the porch floor itself. Examine the condition of the column to make sure that everything is fine. Be sure to allow the primer to dry completely before you begin paint.
That is one job I am not willing to tackle. Step 5 -- Test the Paint Color. Most primers will dry overnight.
Start at the top and work down painting in small sections and feathering each new section into the old section while the paint is still wet. You may also apply a second coat of primer after the first one has dried if you wish. Another key step preparing trim for paint is priming.