Frillylily said:
I did read somewhere that metal siding (steel? aluminum?) would have to be painted eventually with oil based paint, they do not recommend using latex based paints on the metal. So for the record that was another reason I am not considering metal. Does anyone have experience painting it?
My house (Dad's house) he sided with aluminum siding in 1963, I did not have to paint it till 1999 although I probably should have done it five or so years earlier.
I do not know how they make it nowadays, but his had a paint that chalked off, i.e. it never got dirty as it would just wash off with rain.
You did not want to brush up against it in the later years as you would see why it was called chalking of, but you could take a brush and just brush it off of your arm or what ever you brushed up against it with.
You had to press against with force, a loose sleeve would not get chalked up.
I painted it with paint made for aluminum siding but from what I have read , from a site where professionals talk to each other, any quality oil based paint should work.
I do not know what brand it was or what made it special but I have looked and have not found any thing like it since 1999.
Stupid greenie rules probably made them stop making it.
I stripped the entire house down to bare metal with a pressure hose, I had to hold it about three to four inches from the siding to get the original paint off but it was literally down to bare metal.
One odd thing, my father had some how made a mark that took it down to bare metal on one spot, in the eighties. He took a can of some old white (it was actually off white and stuck out like a sore thumb) and painted that spot.
When I stripped the house that paint did NOT come off, no matter how hard I tried so I just painted over it, therefore ; any quality oil paint should work.
